lol the press did love "an overturned car" to embelish their reports of aggro. I never saw one all through the 80s and 90s. Think it may have been more of a 70s thing though, when wrecking  and smashing things up were not so frowned upon

Great stuff CB. I can remember most of those reports back in the day.

Carshalton, you must have a library of scrapbooks!.

Reading Bill Garners name reminds me that he lives here near me in westcliff or used to..Anyone expand ?

Carshalton, you must have a library of scrapbooks!.

'till the old bill smash in your door at 4am and jail you for being involved.

Walnut. Im sure your pic on page 128 is pompey away 84 we had whole away end half the left hand side top and bottom and a quater right hand side top and bottom as we looked from the away end.

Great post Carshalton, some great memories. I've said before 83/84 still my favourite season. Winning the league and our support was superb!

Reading Bill Garners name reminds me that he lives here near me in westcliff or used to..Anyone expand ?

 

Mike, as no doubt you recall, we signed Bill Garner from Southend for £100k in 1972. He continued to live locally, and when he retired he had a Sports Trophy shop in nearby Rochford.

Until several years ago he used to organize and run 'Soccer schools' locally for youngsters during school holidays, in the Southend area (my sons went to a couple around 1993). At half time at the Chelsea v Southend FA cup game in Jan 2009, he was introduced on the pitch at half time, as a player who had played for both clubs.

I last saw him about 3 years ago, still in good shape, no hair loss but now grey.

Personally i felt he never reached his potential, as he suffered from a lot of injuries whilst at CFC, and had a lot of pressure on him as Dave Sexton signed him  to become Ossie's eventual successor. A hard task to follow or what!.

I saw him a few times whilst he was at Southend and he was a powerful striker, very good in the air. Southend played CFC in the League Cup in 1972, and although we won 1-0, Bill caused plenty of problems that night to Webby etc. Possibly that display convinced Dave Sexton to sign him.

Great read Carshalton.  Was at some of those including in Walsall's end and one of the 100 to get into Sunderland's ground.

Great read Carshalton.  Was at some of those including in Walsall's end and one of the 100 to get into Sunderland's ground.

 

Melbourne, you werent on the battersea coach for walsall was you? I was on it and a good few of them were in there!

Cheers lads, glad you liked the cuttings.

Fulham Broadway 1977

 

Fulham Broadway 1977

 

Looks like my Triumph Herald behind the number 11

Something a bit different, a tube map from 1927 showing fb as Walham Green

 

Something a bit different, a tube map from 1927 showing fb as Walham Green

 

And Gillespie Road instead of Arsenal.....and how the fk do you get to WHL? And on a north London theme I wonder why they got rid of York Road given how far Cally Road station is from Kings Cross?

Melbourne, you werent on the battersea coach for walsall was you? I was on it and a good few of them were in there!

No, went up on service train.  My memory is shocking but I'm sure someone from a north west London suburb who used to run coaches was in there too.

Cheers lads, glad you liked the cuttings.

Certainly do mate.

[quote name="Carshalton Blue" I bet they didn't say back then due to technical difficulties please leave the ground and walk to Earls Court!!!

Remember Liverpool 84/85 early kick off because of Grand National. Went by coach from Stamford Arms at 11:00pm Friday night. Back seat full of booze!! Arrived in car park near Anfield about 5:30 am there use to be goals cemented in ground. We bought a football and had one of the biggest games I've ever been in!! With others that had arrived it was about 40 aside. Dread to think what modern formation we had, 10 5 15 10!!! Amazed how we ran round with the overnight drink swilling around. Can't remember the score,but more than 4-3 from the main event. Great days.

............old walham green stn

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I was talking to Damien Matthew who is now a coach at Charlton. We were chatting about the old days.I through a few names at him like Perry, Stokley Sawyers,robin Beste, they came through same time as Dublin, jones, Jasper,Howard and the guy slashed at Millwall. The first three names he thought just drifted out the game.

If Robin Beste went to William Penn I use to play alongside him for a good few years.