Sir peace frog
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10 months old, so I have no memories : ),just a spring chicken
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Newcastle 11th May 1968 let's have your memories...
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Went on yelloways from Middleton most of Langley estate went a convoy of coaches made there way to Newcastle was stood outside the magpie pub and a older Blue came out and said were taking the leazes we all followed we had 25 thousand plus in the ground remember the peanut sellers straw basket going up in the air when we scored the first goal we just knew we were going to win what a day
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Thanks for the tip - I'll do that if I don't get my laptop back in the next couple of days.Message Ric and he will give you a new one
Was 17 at the tlme, travelled up to Newcastle on the train from Victoria Station with my friend jed Ellis, we were in the leezes stand behind the goal, we did have 2 goals disallowed,, was nervy when mcnamee pulled one back for them with 5 minutes to go, great day, seems almost another world, still obsessed with city at 70 year's old as is my 45 year son Rob, both season ticket holders in the east stand, ktf!Torrential rain on the way home, due to poor visibility had to pull the car over. Our kids Ford Zephyr mk3, column change, must have guzzled the juice.
ray21
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I was 13 at the time,went on my own and told my mum I was going with my mate and his dad, I was one of the kids off Langley on one of those coaches, I used to get the match bus from Langley to Maine Road and I was looked after by regulars off the buses at St James Park what fantastic day.Went on yelloways from Middleton most of Langley estate went a convoy of coaches made there way to Newcastle was stood outside the magpie pub and a older Blue came out and said were taking the leazes we all followed we had 25 thousand plus in the ground remember the peanut sellers straw basket going up in the air when we scored the first goal we just knew we were going to win what a day
I still cringe when I think about that game. I was 17 and with a mate jumped a Friday night train from Manchester along with many more. Got on the brown ale too early and ending up buying a bottle of sherry. My last memory was chatting to two Sunderland girls in the Leases end before I was woke up in a cell at 10 o'clock at night to be told we lost and charged with drunk and disorderly after wandering onto the pitch during the game.
Penniless I managed to get back jumping trains via Carlisle and later received a court letter that I had been fined £3.
The greatest game of my life at the time and I totally fcuked it up.
Penniless I managed to get back jumping trains via Carlisle and later received a court letter that I had been fined £3.
The greatest game of my life at the time and I totally fcuked it up.
You must know Tony Rooney and Alan Edo thenI was 13 at the time,went on my own and told my mum I was going with my mate and his dad, I was one of the kids off Langley on one of those coaches, I used to get the match bus from Langley to Maine Road and I was looked after by regulars off the buses at St James Park what fantastic day.
Both still going strong
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Interesting.
A year or so ago I wrote to David Mooney to ask him to do a special podcast on Newcastle 68. Those who were there are now old or no longer with us. That generation is fast disappearing. What I wanted him to do was not the match – which has been talked about – but an oral history of the supporters' experience of the run-in to that final game, and above all the trek up to St. James's Park that day, then the experience of the match from their point of view, and afterwards.
Understandably, he was reluctant. He's a working journalist, and he said, rightly, that it would be a lot of preparation and very time consuming. Which it would. If I lived in Manchester I'd do it. I'd put out an appeal on this forum (with Ric's permission). I've got time on my hands, and I feel strongly that there should be some record, as social history, of that day. There's now a whole generation of City supporters who know almost nothing about that day, except as an important date. 36-37 is just too far back, I don't imagine any eye witness is alive from that. And with the advent of social media, 2012 is covered backwards, forwards and sideways. But the collective memory of 68 is still there to be saved for posterity.
I'd go and interview people, a bit on the model of Studs Terkel and his excellent oral histories, like Working and Division Street: America (if anyone knows them). Get in touch with anyone who was willing and who was there, go round and interview them. The stories on this thread are exactly the sort of thing I'd be hunting down.
There'd then be quite a lot of skilled editing to make it radio friendly, obviously. Technical advice would be needed for that. But anyway, it's not on as far as I'm concerned. I don't live in the U.K.
Takers?
A year or so ago I wrote to David Mooney to ask him to do a special podcast on Newcastle 68. Those who were there are now old or no longer with us. That generation is fast disappearing. What I wanted him to do was not the match – which has been talked about – but an oral history of the supporters' experience of the run-in to that final game, and above all the trek up to St. James's Park that day, then the experience of the match from their point of view, and afterwards.
Understandably, he was reluctant. He's a working journalist, and he said, rightly, that it would be a lot of preparation and very time consuming. Which it would. If I lived in Manchester I'd do it. I'd put out an appeal on this forum (with Ric's permission). I've got time on my hands, and I feel strongly that there should be some record, as social history, of that day. There's now a whole generation of City supporters who know almost nothing about that day, except as an important date. 36-37 is just too far back, I don't imagine any eye witness is alive from that. And with the advent of social media, 2012 is covered backwards, forwards and sideways. But the collective memory of 68 is still there to be saved for posterity.
I'd go and interview people, a bit on the model of Studs Terkel and his excellent oral histories, like Working and Division Street: America (if anyone knows them). Get in touch with anyone who was willing and who was there, go round and interview them. The stories on this thread are exactly the sort of thing I'd be hunting down.
There'd then be quite a lot of skilled editing to make it radio friendly, obviously. Technical advice would be needed for that. But anyway, it's not on as far as I'm concerned. I don't live in the U.K.
Takers?
ray21
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No I don’t know those, I was from Fairfield Road end, I knew the Bamfords and Les Cracknell.You must know Tony Rooney and Alan Edo then
Both still going strong
The majority of the City support was in the open end ..The Gallowgate EndWent on yelloways from Middleton most of Langley estate went a convoy of coaches made there way to Newcastle was stood outside the magpie pub and a older Blue came out and said were taking the leazes we all followed we had 25 thousand plus in the ground remember the peanut sellers straw basket going up in the air when we scored the first goal we just knew we were going to win what a day