54 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Blimey haven't heard his name for ages! Remember him as a kid and he looked exceptional at times then seemed to just disappear. 

One of the few players to have played for the Old Firm. The most controversial being Mo Johnstone who signed for Rangers in 1989 after it looked like he was going back to Celtic after playing for Watford. A few angry fans in Glasgow when it happened.

42 minutes ago, Boyne said:

One of the few players to have played for the Old Firm. The most controversial being Mo Johnstone who signed for Rangers in 1989 after it looked like he was going back to Celtic after playing for Watford. A few angry fans in Glasgow when it happened.

Just remember, we all used to be a player in the playground for lunchtime kick about, be it Wilkins, Best, Pele, Keegen - but can remember one Spurs supporting kid being Alfie Conn and then re-enacting him sitting on the football as he famously once did against Leeds! 

He was bracketed with those entertaining players - Best, Hudson, Marsh, Bowles etc and yet until you posted above I had forgotten he existed!

21 hours ago, In the Net said:

Graham Wilkins - not sure if he was as awful as some say, or partly suffered the burden of being Butch's brother, poor bloke didn't even have a decent nickname!  Brian Mears mentions in his autobiography that Graham had to have a police escort from the ground after scoring a late own goal v West Ham.

That wallpaper and curtains !  Racking my brains as to what that hi fi was called in those days, radiograph, music centre?  

21 hours ago, In the Net said:

Graham Wilkins - not sure if he was as awful as some say, or partly suffered the burden of being Butch's brother, poor bloke didn't even have a decent nickname!  Brian Mears mentions in his autobiography that Graham had to have a police escort from the ground after scoring a late own goal v West Ham.

That wallpaper and curtains !  Racking my brains as to what that hi fi was called in those days, radiograph, music centre?  

1 hour ago, Nibs said:

Just remember, we all used to be a player in the playground for lunchtime kick about, be it Wilkins, Best, Pele, Keegen - but can remember one Spurs supporting kid being Alfie Conn and then re-enacting him sitting on the football as he famously once did against Leeds! 

He was bracketed with those entertaining players - Best, Hudson, Marsh, Bowles etc and yet until you posted above I had forgotten he existed!

I checked and he only played about 35 games for Spurs in three years. He wanted to play for Jock Stein which is why he went to Celtic in 1977. Yes, a talented player. Played in the Rangers team that won the Cup Winners Cup in 1972 and the Scottish Cup in 1973. He scored in the second game.

 

3 hours ago, Boyne said:

Charlie Cooke against Alfie Conn or Judas as he is known in some parts of Glasgow. Left Rangers to sign for the Spuds and then went back to Scotland and signed for Celtic.

Petty moan time, I wonder why we aren’t wearing yellow socks !!

Huge crowd though, the shelf is packed out. 

5 minutes ago, Peckham Blue said:

That wallpaper and curtains !  Racking my brains as to what that hi fi was called in those days, radiograph, music centre?  

My parents bought a record player in the late sixties and they called it a gramophone. Many years ago it was given to me when they bought a music centre. The gramophone is now in the spare bedroom in my house. It plays four speeds: 16, 33, 45 and 78. My parents also had a couple of reel to reel tape-recorders. 

It looks like a Michael Jackson album that Graham is holding. 

 

20 minutes ago, Boyne said:

My parents bought a record player in the late sixties and they called it a gramophone. Many years ago it was given to me when they bought a music centre. The gramophone is now in the spare bedroom in my house. It plays four speeds: 16, 33, 45 and 78. My parents also had a couple of reel to reel tape-recorders. 

It looks like a Michael Jackson album that Graham is holding. 

 

Well spotted - it's the Michael Jackson album "Ben" (1972)

I think the record player unit was called a radiogram (radio and gramophone combined).

The curtains looks like some my mum had from M&S, and the car looks like a Ford Escort.  Was trying to figure out what was written on his T-shirt - too much time on my hands! 

29 minutes ago, Boyne said:

My parents bought a record player in the late sixties and they called it a gramophone. Many years ago it was given to me when they bought a music centre. The gramophone is now in the spare bedroom in my house. It plays four speeds: 16, 33, 45 and 78. My parents also had a couple of reel to reel tape-recorders. 

It looks like a Michael Jackson album that Graham is holding. 

 

16rpm, I don’t remember that speed ever !!  

Edited March 20, 20197 yr by Peckham Blue

8 minutes ago, In the Net said:

Well spotted - it's the Michael Jackson album "Ben" (1972)

I think the record player unit was called a radiogram (radio and gramophone combined).

The curtains looks like some my mum had from M&S, and the car looks like a Ford Escort.  Was trying to figure out what was written on his T-shirt - too much time on my hands! 

Thanks for in the information about the record and radiogram. It looks like a load of cassettes on top of the radiogram. Good to see a Chelsea sticker on the car windscreen.

 

7 minutes ago, Peckham Blue said:

16rpm, I don’t remember that speed ever !!  

16rpm tended to be used for speech records. Found this about them.

http://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2011/05/slower-than-slow-16-rpm-records.html

My Mum and Dad had a few 16rpm records. They also had a load of 78 rpm records. My Dad who was a carpenter and joiner was working at a record company office in London back in the sixties picked up a load of 78rpm records which were due to be thrown up. Strange as some of them went back to the thirties and are probably worth a fair bit of money. Very brittle and a couple were broken over the years. 

5 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Might as well keep the Scottish theme going. Looks like the Doc got rewarded with a bottle of fizz it's funny to think you'd be given booze like a bottle of Bells for winning manager of the month. These days you're more likely to be given organic couscous or vegan cupcakes

Tommy Doc walking on water.

3 hours ago, Boyne said:

My parents bought a record player in the late sixties and they called it a gramophone. Many years ago it was given to me when they bought a music centre. The gramophone is now in the spare bedroom in my house. It plays four speeds: 16, 33, 45 and 78. My parents also had a couple of reel to reel tape-recorders. 

It looks like a Michael Jackson album that Graham is holding. 

 

It is Michael Jackson and the album is Ben. A track from this that was first dance at our wedding was “ Good thing going”

Sugar Minot did a reggae version of it.

As soon as the divorce is finalised, first song at the celebration party’s gonna be “ Good thing your going”

Edited March 20, 20197 yr by Ewell CFC

13 hours ago, Nibs said:

Just remember, we all used to be a player in the playground for lunchtime kick about, be it Wilkins, Best, Pele, Keegen - but can remember one Spurs supporting kid being Alfie Conn and then re-enacting him sitting on the football as he famously once did against Leeds! 

He was bracketed with those entertaining players - Best, Hudson, Marsh, Bowles etc and yet until you posted above I had forgotten he existed!

On another football forum I frequent, there's a Spurs supporter who calls himself AlfieConn.  He's a right pain up the backside, a bit like the player was.

16 hours ago, Boyne said:

One of the few players to have played for the Old Firm. The most controversial being Mo Johnstone who signed for Rangers in 1989 after it looked like he was going back to Celtic after playing for Watford. A few angry fans in Glasgow when it happened.

That signing  (Mo Johnston to Rangers ) was certainly front page news (and also back and middle pages !!) in Scotland in July 1989 !

16 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Might as well keep the Scottish theme going. Looks like the Doc got rewarded with a bottle of fizz it's funny to think you'd be given booze like a bottle of Bells for winning manager of the month. These days you're more likely to be given organic couscous or vegan cupcakes

Great picture of The Doc

The others are decent too.

Cheers for the Scottish theme Coffee, of course this time of the morning...

The yellow and green away kit above, and blue home strip from 80 I reckon, was our first “ shiny” non cotton one.

They were a real revelation when they arrived. Might be wrong, but think Adidas were pioneers  with Dundee Utd being the first I can remember.

Edited March 21, 20197 yr by Ewell CFC

2 hours ago, erskblue said:

That signing  (Mo Johnston to Rangers ) was certainly front page news (and also back and middle pages !!) in Scotland in July 1989 !

I remember picking up a copy of the London Evening Standard on the way home from work. On the back page there was a headline which read: "Mo Johnston signs for Rangers. Turn to inside back page for more."

The Evening Standard like some other papers often referred - and some still do - QPR as Rangers so my first thought was that Johnston had signed for QPR rather than moving to Celtic. I was stunned when I read that he was going to the true Rangers, I remember thinking what the reaction was in Larkhall where I have family and is a very pro-Rangers town would be like. 

18 hours ago, Peckham Blue said:

16rpm, I don’t remember that speed ever !!  

The record player as they were called then ha ha we had was one of those ones with a handle on the side so you could carry it round not that anyone did. My old man had a couple of 16 rpm records of an Irish geezer called John McCormack you could hardly hear anything it was like he was singing in a wardrobe.

My older brother bought our first stereo in 1980 I think it was we went to a gaff somewhere in Fleet Street it was bright orange it cost £40 we saw it advertised in the Evening News. We thought it was the mutts nuts at the time.

Edited March 21, 20197 yr by bluehaze

1 hour ago, bluehaze said:

The record player as they were called then ha ha we had was one of those ones with a handle on the side so you could carry it round not that anyone did. My old man had a couple of 16 rpm records of an Irish geezer called John McCormack you could hardly hear anything it was like he was singing in a wardrobe.

My older brother bought our first stereo in 1980 I think it was we went to a gaff somewhere in Fleet Street it was bright orange it cost £40 we saw it advertised in the Evening News. We thought it was the mutts nuts at the time.

A few years back one of my cousins bought a wind-up gramophone. I think it was made in the 1920s. It's in a cabinet which houses a speaker. 

Talk of record players reminds me of this Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch.

 

I used to love not the nine o'clock news used to be the talk of the playground after it was on. This is my favourite sketch my local church had Songs of Praise about a year after this sketch and it was so accurate. We watched on the telly pissing ourselves at the people in the congregation none of whom had ever stepped in a church before and most were the wrong denomination anyway ?

 

This came up on my youtube feed and don't remember this one surprisingly though was probably there.

Chelsea 2-1 with youngsters Bobby Stewart and Damien Mathew putting in a shift

 

13 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

This came up on my youtube feed and don't remember this one surprisingly though was probably there.

Chelsea 2-1 with youngsters Bobby Stewart and Damien Mathew putting in a shift

 

Yes I'd forgotten that one. Remember last summer though sitting in the garden on a Saturday evening with a beer wearing that retro shirt though!! 

On 20/03/2019 at 14:30, Ewell CFC said:

It is Michael Jackson and the album is Ben. A track from this that was first dance at our wedding was “ Good thing going”

Sugar Minot did a reggae version of it.

As soon as the divorce is finalised, first song at the celebration party’s gonna be “ Good thing your going”

lol. I remember that Sugar Minott version well. Quality

7 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

This came up on my youtube feed and don't remember this one surprisingly though was probably there.

Chelsea 2-1 with youngsters Bobby Stewart and Damien Mathew putting in a shift

 

Cheers for posting. Will watch it later.

Not The Nine O Clock News. Cheers that brings back memories !