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In memory of an old friend
- Thread starter Safeway
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ahhh - makes sense. I was northstanding it - nearly got beaten up on the train for laughing about it on my way back to Uni at Southampton by a couple of rabid Rovers fans!
happy days...
(ps anyone remember Jimmy Case's first game in charge? clue: Tuesday evening...)
happy days...
(ps anyone remember Jimmy Case's first game in charge? clue: Tuesday evening...)
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Martlet said:
Canvey Island, FA Cup 1st Round Replay. Won 4-1. Kind of went downhill from there really.
Rangdo
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The excitement of being in the middle of the North stand for the first time when my dad thought I was old enough and took me in there (without my mum knowing).
Don't really miss being crushed on those blue barriers when we scored though.
Don't really miss being crushed on those blue barriers when we scored though.
Storer68
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It was about this time, seven years ago, that I walked throught the turnstiles at the Goldstone for the last time..............
Eastleigh Seagull
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bobbyzee said:also the 2-0 fa cup win over bournemouth with about 18,000 crowd..
the headline in the arsegus said it all....
" Northstanders go wild"
...and we did!
I was mascot for that game - what a great day.
Jambo Seagull
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dave the gaffer said:
I remember that game well. Was that not our first game in Div 2 in 77/78 after being promoted from Div 3? I was up the back of the west stand with a mate of my Dad. Meanwhile my Dad and my brother were in seats just in front of the Directors Box reserved for the Executive club. In front of them was the old enclosure. The hardcore Millwall fans had infiltrated the enclosure intending to get into the Directors box from below via the seats which my Dad and brother (then aged 8) were sitting in. My brother was so scared he didn't go back for a couple of years!
Jambo Seagull
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kevinsmith said:
You're getting confused with the Walsall game. We were 2-2 each at halftime against York and won 7-2. About two weeks later we were 0-0 at half-time and beat Walsall 7-0 (Ward 4, Mellor 3). Those two games are probably the stand-out games for me at the Goldstone. What did Mullery say to them at half-time?
Man of Harveys
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Is it possible to post pictures on here that are NOT on the web? If so, how? I have one on my hard-drive that I'd like to share, for no good reason.
Storer68
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At about this time in 1997,
Stuart Storer scored THAT goal
Stuart Storer scored THAT goal
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The Large One
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GUNTER said:
Actually, Charlton won 5-3. And that promotion year was 1988. And THAT goal was in 1997.
For me, there was
• Beating Charlton 7-0. We were 5-0 up at half-time, Case was running riot, and I got fed up of cheering every goal.
• Chelsea running wild in 1983. That was the scariest time.
• Brighton coming back from 3-1 down against Bournemouth for a 3-3 draw. Now the North Stand REALLY went mad for that.
• Beating Manchester United 1-0 (Ward). Two United players got carried off going for the same ball that Wardy ducked out of the way of.
• The aforementioned promotion v Bristol Rovers.
• Beating Norwich 1-0 in the Cup QF at a pakced Goldstone. They closed the gates on the North Stand at 1.30, and I had to stand in the South West. Bah!
I remember the surges, the bouncing when we scored, getting crushed against the crash barriers, the fences, the racist chants, the Doc Martens boots left in Old Shoreham Road, the laces being taken from the boots, the celery, the Goldstone Roar, the A-G, A-G-R, A-G-R-O AGGRO...
More later...
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