Fruit Bat

I admire your honesty. Not many football fans would confess to have little interest in watching their team play if they were underperforming. Loyal supporter.

Munich 3005/-early morning flight from London City Airport- a few of them were unzipping tins at 9 in the morning. Boozy afternoon- one fella got plastered, slept through his alarm, and watched the second half in the hotel lounge. Definitely not invited to my wine and cheese party

Swinging from branch to branch, another Lovejoy story. We had Marseille in the Champions League 98- rented a villa in St Tropez- it was February and dead as a dodo. A splinter movement including yours truly decided to hightail it to Nice where they’re was more action- as the cab was pulling away Lovejoy came running out in his undies clutching their equivalent of the Yellow Pages “ You’d be bonkers to go now. They’ve got three pages of brasses in ‘ere”

Ahead of the legendary Lovejoys wake next Saturday- he went by train from Coventry to Pompey for the night game in 84- so ratted he was refused entrance. Not an isolated story with him. I’ve been on the top tier of the East Stand having to watch the game with one eye shut- otherwise they’re be 22 players on the pitch. Also confess to having watched us straight from clubbing off me tits. ( Hope me Mum don’t get on this forum) Any similar experiences?

Our Sunday football team midfield once averaged 16 stone. More like a Panzer Division than a midfield.

Neville Southall. One of the best keepers in the world at the time.

Always my favourite badge that one with the turquoise rim.

Weird phenomenon fat pro footballers. Micky Quinn and Thomas Brolin spring to mind. Alan Mayes was no twinkle toes either

Grimsby 94

Sams wake will be on Sunday 28th of May, from 1.30 PM, prior to the Newcastle game at The Broadway Bar and Grill ( Previously Old Kings Head) 474-476 Fulham Road. All Welcomr

If we lost at Bournemouth he’d be 007 Won 0 Drawn 0 Lost 7 😬

Yeah and a priest in charge of a sprinkler system releasing holy water

The Big Match Revisited from 77-78 was on this afternoon. We got beat 2-0 away at Liverpool, which wasn’t too bad given the circumstances. QPR got stuffed 1-5 at home to Everton.Stan Bowles, good touch but not much of an athlete- he recorded the worst ever points tally on Superstars around this time.

If you look at that programme cover, which was the Bridge layout until West Stand was rebuilt in 65, probably 85% of a 75,000 odd capacity had zero protection from the elements. Compared with our main London competition- Spurs, Arsenal, West Ham, we by far were the worst catered for in this regard- a lot of floating football fans back then who would turn out to watch the likes of Finney, Matthews, Lofthouse etc, who must have been put off turning up at ours if the weather forecast was a bit iffy; sod going to Stamford Bridge and getting pissy wet when they can get under The North Bank at Highbury. False economy, construction costs versus consequent revenue gains I’d say Pretty much all the iconic terraces, Kop, Kippax, Holte End, got roofed over in the 40s or 50’s. As we know The Shed only came about to keep the bookies dry, and it didn’t cover much of the end. Crumb of comfort- Palace, Sheffield Wednesday, Newcastle home ends no roofs whatsoever

Thought the vintage criteria was pre Rpman? Great vid, great player, great times

Sometime in the 80’s was listening to Chris Tarrant on Capital when some rumour caught wildfire that there was a lion on the loose in Dollis Hill. Turned out to be bollox but caused a panic. Coulsdon Pets- on the A23 heading south towards Brighton/ Gatwick - used to have an A- Board sign out the front “ LAST PET SHOP BEFORE THE M23 “ Just incase you had to fill your petrol tank up with Trill Budgie food before hitting the motorway

Just checked online- 38 stitches to face and neck which would have been a lot worse had a passer by not shooed it off with an iron bar. Thanks for the heads up

Had to do a double take on that; your quite right apparently young Jimmy Tyler got to meet his heroes after bring mauled by a puma. How very strange

That Bolton game where he was instrumental in the 4-3 comeback, forgot that Sam Allardyce sliced it into his own net. f**king hilarious