28 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Is this the match where Micky D has to wear borrowed shorts for some reason?  Notice that MD is wearing our white Le Coq shirt but Umbro shorts.  I think we are away to Coventry? - Highfield Road was a crap ground and I never saw us win there.  Used to bussed from the Station to the ground with an escort.

I think this was his last game. He didn’t play the whole of 83/84. I think our shorts were a little bit snug! He’s wearing Villa home shorts, I bet they got them in a sports shop.

@Gate 13 I was at this game and yes we lost and we did get bussed to the ground in buses that looked like they were used for the miners strike! They had cages on the windows!

12 hours ago, Boyne said:

Looks like blood on his shirt. I bet it wasn't his !

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 A 5-5 draw (!) at The Bridge in Dec 1966.

 

If they had manager of the month now what would it be a litre of Organic Smoothie 😆. The book has reached it's crowdfunding target and has or is about to be published.

 

Edited December 22, 20223 yr by bluehaze

On 21/12/2022 at 20:24, Boyne said:

I think you might be right about this being Micky's last game.

In King Kerry's most recent book, he mentions how tough a task John Neal had in developing the 83/84 squad alongside the old guard. Of that old guard, Alan Hudson and Micky are named as the (alleged) bad influences. Shame really.

Anyway, back to this photo and how it probably isn't his blood on that shirt - and how they may well have been the only available (and suitable) pair of shorts on the day.

Interesting to see a young Stuart Pearce there too. And to think he was known as 'Psycho'. Could never have been as hard as the big fella next to him.

 

 

 

16 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

If they had manager of the month now what would it be a litre of Organic Smoothie 😆. The book has reached it's crowdfunding target and has or is about to be published.

 

Page 3 model Erica Preston with Speedo. This was part of an article in Math magazine I think, Speedie was interested in photography and they put her in a football kit!

Possibly posted before.

Posted before. From the early nineties. Looks like a Rangers jacket that the guy in the middle is wearing.

9 hours ago, Boyne said:

Posted before. From the early nineties. Looks like a Rangers jacket that the guy in the middle is wearing.

Last day of the Shed.

8 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Last day of the Shed.

Bloke at the right hand side of the photo has probably bought his cuppa from the T bar 

8 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Last day of the Shed.

Stood near where the group being photographed. End of an era. Moved to the West Stand and then to the MHU. Difficult to believe that it's nearly 30 years since the old Shed closed.

20 hours ago, Boyne said:

Posted before. From the early nineties. Looks like a Rangers jacket that the guy in the middle is wearing.

The guy 2nd from the left partially hidden wearing glasses, balding and a brown jacket looks suspiciously like myself. Hard to say for sure but that is precisely the area I used to stand at!

23 minutes ago, LOFTYBILL said:

The guy 2nd from the left partially hidden wearing glasses, balding and a brown jacket looks suspiciously like myself. Hard to say for sure but that is precisely the area I used to stand at!

If you listen carefully you might hear the middle and the white wall in verse “T Bar, T Bar, give us a song, (pause) aaaaaaarrrgh!”

                                                                             

 

 

 

Above:Bobby Tambling scoring against Leicester City.

Edited December 24, 20223 yr by erskblue

A very Merry Christmas to all you lot on here! 

I am of the generation who travelled to QPR for many a Boxing Day, this from 1981, and a goal from that useless carthorse Alan Mayes in a 0-2 win.

Just now, Gate 13 said:

I am of the generation who travelled to QPR for many a Boxing Day, this from 1981, and a goal from that useless carthorse Alan Mayes in a 0-2 win.

Just now, Gate 13 said:

Keith Jones on the plastic at Loftus Road, Boxing Day 84, a 2-2 draw.

20 hours ago, Gate 13 said:

I am of the generation who travelled to QPR for many a Boxing Day, this from 1981, and a goal from that useless carthorse Alan Mayes in a 0-2 win.

Good to see our mob packed in the school end terrace, a handsome turnout on Boxing Day - mind you, the tube ran on Boxing Day then.

1 minute ago, Gate 13 said:

Good to see our mob packed in the school end terrace, a handsome turnout on Boxing Day - mind you, the tube ran on Boxing Day then.

Not sure it did that day funny enough I remember we had to get the bus. The 2-2 game as well we walked the way back I remember that cause we stopped off at three different pubs all closed now.

First day of the MH and I don't usually post pictures of games we've lost 94 CF.