View Full Version : I lost my shoe at this match. Never got it back.
Harry Balls
04-26-2020, 06:44 PM
Yup, shoe. Not trainer. Went straight from work to the game. When Allison scored, the pushing and shoving was intense and I ended up well away from my starting place.
Anyhow, we were talking about social distancing and it made me think about the most squashed in I ever have been (it was either that night at Spurs or except maybe Juventus at Highbury in 1980 - "it's ****ing hot in here, it's...) 1980's style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJbTwOQoQU
Sir C
04-26-2020, 08:11 PM
Yup, shoe. Not trainer. Went straight from work to the game. When Allison scored, the pushing and shoving was intense and I ended up well away from my starting place.
Anyhow, we were talking about social distancing and it made me think about the most squashed in I ever have been (it was either that night at Spurs or except maybe Juventus at Highbury in 1980 - "it's ****ing hot in here, it's...) 1980's style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJbTwOQoQU
I was at both those games. I reckon the Juve game was the most squashed I have ever been. The queue for the NB turnstiles went halfway down Avenell Road and for about 50 years my feet weren’t touching the ground. Mental, it was.
Yup, shoe. Not trainer. Went straight from work to the game. When Allison scored, the pushing and shoving was intense and I ended up well away from my starting place.
Anyhow, we were talking about social distancing and it made me think about the most squashed in I ever have been (it was either that night at Spurs or except maybe Juventus at Highbury in 1980 - "it's ****ing hot in here, it's...) 1980's style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJbTwOQoQU
v Forest early 80s. . Last minute winner. Might have been Rix. There was a life threatening surge. Iirc
Luis Anaconda
04-27-2020, 08:51 AM
v Forest early 80s. . Last minute winner. Might have been Rix. There was a life threatening surge. Iirc
Everton Littlewoods cup semi - lost my shoe that day but somehow got it back. It was a few days after United in the cup and McLair's penalty. Has that come down yet?
Burney
04-27-2020, 09:27 AM
v Forest early 80s. . Last minute winner. Might have been Rix. There was a life threatening surge. Iirc
Given that such surges were a commonplace in the pre-Taylor Report era, it does seem genuinely extraordinary that anyone who had ever attended a football match could possibly have thought fencing supporters in was a good idea.
The Insider
04-27-2020, 09:59 AM
Everton Littlewoods cup semi - lost my shoe that day but somehow got it back. It was a few days after United in the cup and McLair's penalty. Has that come down yet?
I'm with you here. The Everton S/F wa sprobably the worst, I got crushed against a barrier and nearly passed out. Somebody pulled me clear, if we had had fences then it would have made Hillsborough look like a street party.
Luis Anaconda
04-27-2020, 10:22 AM
I'm with you here. The Everton S/F wa sprobably the worst, I got crushed against a barrier and nearly passed out. Somebody pulled me clear, if we had had fences then it would have made Hillsborough look like a street party.
yes - wd the Arsenal for never putting them up
Sir C
04-27-2020, 10:26 AM
yes - wd the Arsenal for never putting them up
I remember an article in the programme around that time by Sir Hill-Wood père, promising that we would never be caged.
Dear old Denis. Peter. Whichever.
Luis Anaconda
04-27-2020, 11:44 AM
I remember an article in the programme around that time by Sir Hill-Wood père, promising that we would never be caged.
Dear old Denis. Peter. Whichever.
Denis was the daddy - and also as it turns out played First-Class cricket (albeit for Derbyshire). wd dhw
Burney
04-27-2020, 12:01 PM
Denis was the daddy - and also as it turns out played First-Class cricket (albeit for Derbyshire). wd dhw
Is there any other club with such strong cricketing history as Arsenal, la?
I had no idea Brian Close played for our reserves/youth, btw.
http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=10763
Luis Anaconda
04-27-2020, 12:19 PM
Is there any other club with such strong cricketing history as Arsenal, la?
I had no idea Brian Close played for our reserves/youth, btw.
http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=10763
I very much doubt it - impressive list. I think I did know the Close thing but had slipped my mind.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086XBLGS8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Vaguely knew him when he was coach at Middlesex - always had some interesting stories
Burney
04-27-2020, 12:25 PM
I very much doubt it - impressive list. I think I did know the Close thing but had slipped my mind.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086XBLGS8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Vaguely knew him when he was coach at Middlesex - always had some interesting stories
I remember him from his Sussex days, when he was notoriously chirpy and had a propensity for vocally encouraging Imran Khan and Garth Le Roux to do physical injury to the batsmen. :hehe:
redgunamo
04-28-2020, 02:51 PM
Oh, that's lovely! Charlie & Johnny :love:
Is there any other club with such strong cricketing history as Arsenal, la?
I had no idea Brian Close played for our reserves/youth, btw.
http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=10763
Pokster
04-29-2020, 09:50 AM
I very much doubt it - impressive list. I think I did know the Close thing but had slipped my mind.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086XBLGS8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Vaguely knew him when he was coach at Middlesex - always had some interesting stories
Is that why we turned into flat track bullys?
Luis Anaconda
04-29-2020, 10:25 AM
Is that why we turned into flat track bullys?
No - that is still Berni's fault
Burney
04-29-2020, 10:33 AM
No - that is still Berni's fault
Ooh, la. On your benighted, foreign version of Netflix, can you get The Test? It's very good (although naturally it sees everything from a pro-Aussie point of view) and the remarkable thing about it is that you come out of it actually liking a lot of the Australian players.
Not David Warner, though. He's still clearly a massive c.unt.
Luis Anaconda
04-29-2020, 11:08 AM
Ooh, la. On your benighted, foreign version of Netflix, can you get The Test? It's very good (although naturally it sees everything from a pro-Aussie point of view) and the remarkable thing about it is that you come out of it actually liking a lot of the Australian players.
Not David Warner, though. He's still clearly a massive c.unt.
Yeah, be meaning to check it out. I'd heard very good things
Burney
04-29-2020, 11:12 AM
Yeah, be meaning to check it out. I'd heard very good things
Justin Langer is very much as you'd expect. Scary, intense little man.
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