On ‎10‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 20:41, bluegraham said:

Cracking jersey and crest, I hear the player wasn't bad either

41 goals in his first season for us before his £80,000 move to AC Milan.

No history hah 

 

On 25 August 1928 both Arsenal and Chelsea wore numbers on their shirts in their respective games against The Wednesday, who later became known as Sheffield Wednesday, and Swansea.  This was the first time such a thing had occurred in the Football League, and the innovation seemed to meet with approval.  The Daily Express reported about the Chelsea match that, “The 35,000 spectators were able to give credit for each bit of good work to the correct individual, because the team were numbered, and the large figures in black on white squares enabled each man to be identified without trouble.”  While the Daily Mirror writing about the same match said that they, “…fancy the scheme has come to stay

Just been reading the book. Tommy Doc' and read that Tommy Doc had an 'open pre season training session '

3000 fans attended along with the national media.

Ir took the players 6 hours to sign all the autographs and to pose for photos!

That was pre season 1964/65.

 

Edited August 13, 20178 yr by Boyne

6 hours ago, Boyne said:

2-2 game at The Bridge in Feb 78. We were 2-0 up with I think 10mins left!

Chelsea Gate 13 East Stand

Dont Know wether this is Fans queuing for Repaly Tickets ???? For Leeds Utd

Not a clue what game this was

Is this the Famous Eccles

3 hours ago, Walnuts said:

Chelsea Gate 13 East Stand

Chelsea vs Leeds I think 82/83 game was on match of th day. The game was a draw

4 hours ago, Walnuts said:

Is this the Famous Eccles

Yes, WHL v Watford semi final.

15 hours ago, Walnuts said:

Not a clue what game this was

Is it the play-off game against 'Boro in 1988? 

That looks a bit tasty, you can see by some of the expressions on the faces and the policeman's truncheon drawn that someone was being taught a lesson!

 

Edited August 14, 20178 yr by Boyne

Spurs in 1964/65On ‎13‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 17:57, Walnuts said:

Dont Know wether this is Fans queuing for Repaly Tickets ???? For Leeds Utd

Don't know. Reading in the Tommy Doc book that there was a two mile queue for tickets for an FA Cup tie v Spurs in 1964/65. We beat them 2-0.

Yes a two mile queue for tickets!

11 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Don't know. Reading in the Tommy Doc book that there was a two mile queue for tickets for an FA Cup tie v Spurs in 1964/65. We beat them 2-0.

Here's a great picture of fans queuing for tickets in 1952.

Edited August 15, 20178 yr by Boyne

44 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Here's a great picture of fans queuing for tickets in 1952.

The queue for tickets for Luton in 94 was like this I spent most of the morning looking at a billboard for Parklife by Blur.

4 hours ago, bluehaze said:

The queue for tickets for Luton in 94 was like this I spent most of the morning looking at a billboard for Parklife by Blur.

Ah, the days of queuing for football and concert tickets. I can't remember which game I was queuing for (it may have been the 1997 final) but started in the queue the night before they went on sale at 7.00am. In the early evening, the ticket office staff (it was when Eddie Barnett was in charge) decided to start selling. Strange as there was only about 30 people in the queue. So got home at a reasonable time.

On 8/14/2017 at 09:00, Boyne said:

Is it the play-off game against 'Boro in 1988? 

Yes.

48 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Ah, the days of queuing for football and concert tickets. I can't remember which game I was queuing for (it may have been the 1997 final) but started in the queue the night before they went on sale at 7.00am. In the early evening, the ticket office staff (it was when Eddie Barnett was in charge) decided to start selling. Strange as there was only about 30 people in the queue. So got home at a reasonable time.

You had to have a voucher given out from the previous week's programme I think for Luton.. Spurs 82 another massive queue but I was young and had no problem getting near the front

2 hours ago, bluehaze said:

You had to have a voucher given out from the previous week's programme I think for Luton.. Spurs 82 another massive queue but I was young and had no problem getting near the front

Yes my mum went up and queued for benches tickets for the scousers and spuds for  fa cup 1982. When I first started going queuing to get in use to be part of the day. Big games with pay on the day you were worried even inside the gates on the forecourt if you were going to get in. I had one Lock out scousers 1979 no where near getting through the gates on the pavement of the Stamford gate. They were old and wooden, fans started to push and shake them before old bill on horse back pushed the back.