Bernard Halford

[franksinatra]

Chapter 11
One Saturday in May 1999
"Just got home from working overtime today as the tickets for the play off final went on sale. Can't believe how smoothly it all went and every fan served within 35 mins of arriving outside the ticket office".

Ha, yes great memories. After the 7 hour queue outside I remember the queue snaking into the stadium and there was some very dark humoured graffiti written on the walls by frustrated fans. One was along the likes of ‘Another Bernard Halford promotions/organised event’ and another, with a political twist of the day ‘7 more hours to the Kosovan border’.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Something 'funny' was afoot if Bernard was up front on the team coach, on the pitch at Wembley and collecting a trophy from the Royal Box.

It's not WHO you know but WHAT you know !!

 

[Tarzan41]

Had he told the truth about fiddling the gates he'd have been incriminating himself

Ssshh. 116th charge

 

[pride in battle]

He used to have thousands of pounds of gate receipts in the boot of his car...

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

He used to have thousands of pounds of gate receipts in the boot of his car...

Correct. He would drive it in on the Monday lunchtime to the underground Co-op bank on Balloon Street.

He was a subservient, weasel. Regularly used to help himself to anything he wanted and was the biggest culprit in Swales staying in power for so long.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Correct. He would drive it in on the Monday lunchtime to the underground Co-op bank on Balloon Street.

He was a subservient, weasel. Regularly used to help himself to anything he wanted and was the biggest culprit in Swales staying in power for so long.

Never get the fuss about him. He was a long serving employee, and that’s it. Always seemed like something of a Swales lapdog. How he became a supposed City legend is beyond me; ticket office was worse than it is now when he was responsible for it. Actually thought he started out as an Oldham fan too? (Nothing wrong with that but not the basis of City legend)

 

[MCFCTrick]

Actually thought he started out as an Oldham fan too? (Nothing wrong with that but not the basis of City legend)

He always denied that emphatically. Said it was cos he was from Failsworth some accused him of being a Biffo.

Pub we used to see him in every week (The Horseshoe, Droylsden Rd, Newton Heath) had a rag owner then, (and another one now, lol) and many rag customers. To be fair he stood his ground against them when they tried being snide about City.

 

[BringBackSwales]

He always denied that emphatically. Said it was cos he was from Failsworth some accused him of being a Biffo.

Pub we used to see him in every week (The Horseshoe, Droylsden Rd, Newton Heath) had a rag oner then, and many rag customers. To be fair he stood his ground against them when they tried being snide about City.

Biffo, lol

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Correct. He would drive it in on the Monday lunchtime to the underground Co-op bank on Balloon Street.

He was a subservient, weasel. Regularly used to help himself to anything he wanted and was the biggest culprit in Swales staying in power for so long.

An underground bank on Balloon Street! Never heard of that before!

 

[bobbymimms]

Observed at many City away matches 80s 90s 00s City's main ticket tout..