exiledbaguleyblue said:earliest about '67 as a 6 year old staring at a bloke with a massive scab where his ear should have been.
£35 season tickets.
using tippex on the vouchers at the back of the season ticket to get extra derby tickets
In at 1pm to sit on "our barrier", then being tall enough to stand in front of our barrier.
We've got a rattle that'll get on your nerves.
Leaving early to run round to the main stand to get on the pitch @Luton game, only to get back in and they'd scored "confronting" Luton players on the pitch, running back to the kippax to have a go at the luton fans in the corner and getting kicked up the arse by a copper in front of the luton fans.
Charlton, singing we love you charlton we do
Arther albason
12th Nov 1975 beating scum 4-0, the night king Colin was crippled.(having bought rothmans king size as it was a big match)
Boro in the semi later that year (and before that game as a 15 year old getting run by the bastards in the alley's at the back of the Platt Lane)
Mate being hit on the head by a lump of brick v scum, and before we could react another lad asking"can i borrow your brick" as he picked it up and threw it back at the scum bastards,
down against liverpool
Colin Bell v Newcastle (still brings goosebumps)
Wigan semi in playoffs - singing Wembley all the way back to town
Years in the birch villa "never seeing a kick off"
eating oranges injected with vodka first game we couldnt drink in sight of the pitch
Everton FA cup replay (with an Everton fan)
Beating Leeds 4-0, pissed off at first 2 goals as it looked like we'd given scum the title then thinking fuck it and celebrating next 2 - making amends for it at scumland a few days later
the buzz of seeing the floodlights on for night matches as the bus trundled down princess parkway
singing boring boring Arsenal when they were 3 or 4 up in the first 20 mins
kicking the gate,in the alley, at the back of the kippax to wind the mad dog up
the "surges"
first sight of the pitch as we walked through the tunnel
Grand National day, everything would go quiet as the winners were read out
fucking ****
Pearce missing the pen that would have given us a record number of goals
Lee coming back playing for Derby
beating AC Milan (3? goals in the last 4 mins?)
West Ham (?) trying to take the Kippax by coming up the middle stairs
Swales out
The bogs
the sheer madness every time we scored
the shared humour every game
seeing the same faces around you every game and spotting them in pubs and on terraces at away matches
young Gary Owen having a go at Mike Doyle (v Wolves) in front of the kippax
Gerry Francis (?) getting shit over wifes extra curricula activities
the sheer sadness of lost youth the last game on the kippax and having to relocate to the north stand
not the same sadness at the last game in the new kippax
taking my boy when he was 3 (new kippax)
The crushes on the way out after the game
All my kids having a teddy bear called kippax
Experiences never to be repeated
nice post.