Peckham Blue

It's still sung from time to time but with the "If you're standing, on the corner......." beginning.

C**t ?

Where are the Batman films ?!?! :)

Early Jam pretty good, never liked anything else.

I was waiting with baited breath for REM to appear.

I do, that's one less country which won't cheer Maradonna any longer.

Gutted for him, I really am. :D

Preferably out!!!

Only a bottle? A grenade would have been better.

Sorry Kids... Green day are OK but if you haven't seen the likes of Disorder, Conflict, Black Flag, The Bad Brains, UK Subs, Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, or Crass live in their heydays, then you haven't lived. I really wished I'd seen the ealy Libertines though, one of my big regrets.

Who's the opposition? My first thought was Man City but I don't think we played them in 1976 so my guess is it's Fulham and the Boxing Day game. There's a big crowd in the film and the attendence for that match was 55,003.

Is a bar guide needed? I used to go to Madrid about three times a year in the early 80's and I love the place. I saw Atletico play at home against Espanol when Hugo Sanchez played for them before he went to Real. Go up the hill from the ground towards the old centre towards Toledo, El Mercado, El Rastro and the Plaza Major and it's heaving with bars and cafe's, all pretty much the same. The people from this part of Madrid are really down to earth and nothing like the snobs who live in the northern suburbs where the RM play and I'm sure will welcome our fans providing there's no trouble. Play up though and you'll get what you deserve as the police don't f**k around with troublemakers. I really wish I was going to this one.

The A-Z half time scoreboard.

:)

Not only in London with the Standard and Evening News. There we were at Southampton bus station an hour after full time waiting for the National Express coach to take us back to Victoria after the 3rd round 0-0 draw in 1976 (S'oton were F.A Cup holders at the time....I could have strangled Kenny Swain for missing those one on ones with the keeper) when in comes the paper van. Talk about a Godsend, someting to read on the way home.

Golden Goal tickets....."Golden Goal, Getcha Golden Goal Tickets!" from the seller at the top of the Shed End steps (a 'straight' bloke with black hair, sort of person I'd normally see these days doing the same at Dulwich Hamlet).

Stewards that were Chelsea supporters, not some rent a dimwit idiot without a clue about being what a football supporter is all about.

99.9% of the crowd wearing flat caps or trilbys.

Baldy fifty year old refs wearing a black shirt (w/large pockets), oversized black shorts, half back/white socks (or stockings as they used to be called-something pervy about that!) and ankle high almost rugby boots.

Butcher's coats

Loftus Road, upper tier was and probably still is terrible. Norwich used to be bad, stuck in the corner with a full height metal fence blocking the view, best to try and get in late and maybe by that time the centre empty bit had been opened, after which the whole 90mins descended into a coin chucking excercise.

For me it's The Ramones third LP "Leave Home". It was the first punk album I bought at the time I was leaving school and had my whole life in front of me. Now I'm a fat, bald four eyed git with three kids and have worked for the same firm ever since. The album? I still love it and pretty much everything else by the Ramones up until about 1980, I even met them in Kensington Church Street during my dinner break one day.

Most of us thought it was unlucky too, a relegation kit. I think it was worn because Dave Sexton wanted to emulate the Hungarian team of the 1950's who played in those colours.

Along with Greenaway.

Allison did the same at the Shed End where I was and where about 6,000 sang the same! These days he'd been done for inciting a riot after what went on during the first half of that match. When Palace went 0-2 up no-one was watching the football, all the entertainment was in the in the Palace section of the North Stand with areas of fighting opening up here there and everywhere with blokes moving a cross a gap, landing a punch or (kung-fu) kick, it was continuous. In those days the North Stand wasn't divided but one big open terrace and away fans usually stood behind the goal or ended up being chased across it up against the fence where the old seated bit was. Wilkins equaliser sparked off for me the longest goal celebration I can ever remember watching Chelsea and then one massive "You'll never walk alone" right across the whole end. We were starved of success in those days and the FA Cup was the best route to glory and being beaten by some two bob third division outfit was hard to swallow. I've hated Palace and especially Peter Taylor to this very day and whenever he gets sacked which is pretty regular I have a chuckle. I had a good weekend.