Remembering the Inflatable Banana craze / Stoke Boxing Day fancy dress party

[ysmsa]

Remember the game at Maine Rd v Stoke. They had adopted Pink Panther, loads of em in Platt Lane.

 

[Corky]

Certainly wasn't "on this day" in 1989.

 

[maccieblue]

A midweek game at West Brom away had Frankenstein v Tyrannosaurus Rex with Blues baying for a "fight fight fight.....".
Kevin Cummins had Frankenstein
And during the game a paddling pool appeared with a kid in it!
Amazing days when what was happening on the pitch was secondary to what was happening on the terraces.

Went to Watford away and my.mate had a 6 foot inflatable Killer Whale. Couldn't get it through the turnstiles! Hilarious scene as stewards on the outside pushed and stewards on the inside pulled!
Luckily for my mate, Alan Potter turned up moments later and he also couldn't fit through the turnstiles and had to be let in via the exit gate - my mate nipped through with him and his Killer Whale!

Also remember at the West Brom game somebody had an inflatable Newcastle brown. Think he let it down when everyone sang "you dirty geordie bastard" to him

 

[i kne albert davy]

A midweek game at West Brom away had Frankenstein v Tyrannosaurus Rex with Blues baying for a "fight fight fight.....".
Kevin Cummins had Frankenstein
And during the game a paddling pool appeared with a kid in it!
Amazing days when what was happening on the pitch was secondary to what was happening on the terraces.

Went to Watford away and my.mate had a 6 foot inflatable Killer Whale. Couldn't get it through the turnstiles! Hilarious scene as stewards on the outside pushed and stewards on the inside pulled!
Luckily for my mate, Alan Potter turned up moments later and he also couldn't fit through the turnstiles and had to be let in via the exit gate - my mate nipped through with him and his Killer Whale!

Remember trying to push Potter through the turnstiles a Burnden park that was a losing battle as well.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Remember trying to push Potter through the turnstiles a Burnden park that was a losing battle as well.

I believe he isn't too well these days. Great bloke and a great Blue and the origin of the Niall Quinn disco pants song

 

[blue b4 the moon]

2 bananas and a yellow dolphin with a squeeky top fin all sadly RIP.

Took some fantastic photos at Walsall in the 2-2 or 3-2... without checking can't remember the score but McNab missed a pen & Dibble was sent off sadly Boots lost the fuckers.

There's very little evidence of the craze on the web. Thousands of us up & down the country with an inflatable under our arm.

Brilliant times.

 

[Mike Cledford]

A midweek game at West Brom away had Frankenstein v Tyrannosaurus Rex with Blues baying for a "fight fight fight.....".
Kevin Cummins had Frankenstein
And during the game a paddling pool appeared with a kid in it!
Amazing days when what was happening on the pitch was secondary to what was happening on the terraces.

Went to Watford away and my.mate had a 6 foot inflatable Killer Whale. Couldn't get it through the turnstiles! Hilarious scene as stewards on the outside pushed and stewards on the inside pulled!
Luckily for my mate, Alan Potter turned up moments later and he also couldn't fit through the turnstiles and had to be let in via the exit gate - my mate nipped through with him and his Killer Whale!

That WBA game is one of my favourite football memories. A Frankenstein prompting a chant 'only two Trevor Morleys' until a second Frankenstein appeared.
Do you know how Alan Potters health is?
Ps just read subsequent post.

 

[Chris in London]

The bananas were okay but not the fish.

There’s no plaice for it in football.

 

[Pablo123]

The bananas were okay but not the fish.

There’s no plaice for it in football.

Living the bream

 

[IOWBlue]

2 bananas and a yellow dolphin with a squeeky top fin all sadly RIP.

Took some fantastic photos at Walsall in the 2-2 or 3-2... without checking can't remember the score but McNab missed a pen & Dibble was sent off sadly Boots lost the fuckers.

There's very little evidence of the craze on the web. Thousands of us up & down the country with an inflatable under our arm.

Brilliant times.

was that the one in the snow?