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I don't disagree with what you're saying as we have had some excellent keepers over the past 20 years. we just haven't had a string of quality keepers like we did in the seventies and eighties. I would hope that not everyone would vote on their reminiscences, I grew up watching the likes of...

The problem with a poll like this is that around a third of those who replied have only seen our Amex keepers, around half will only have seen keepers since the Withdean days and less than a quarter will have seen the 70's and earlier keepers. Unless they were exceptional then they had no...

Is that to the tune of "We've got Willie, Willie, Willie, Willie Irvine on our wing, on our wing"? Oh the seventies! A great time to be watching the Albion. Great football, great songs.

Currently playing Crisis? What Crisis? in the car. Great Album - forgot just how good it was.

Went to the White Hart in Surrey Street for the Bournemouth game. They are football friendly and show lots of matches.

The process can be slow. We have to apply to the F.A. for clearance and they then contact the F.A. of the country the player last played in. That F.A. then have to contact the players last club to ensure there are no reasons why the clearance cannot go through. Once the club give the go ahead...

Your observations are the same as mine, it's like you must have been sitting next to me!!

Peter Ward was one of our most inconsistent forwards ever and he's GOD!! He could be out of the game for 88 minutes then score two late goals to win the match for us. Ash just needs to carry on improving as he has done since he's been with us and he'll turn into a decent striker. Nobody can...

Not a band but just about anything sung by Craig David

Isn't it a bit early for this thread?

My Wife drives a Peugeot 107. Clone of the Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo. Cheap Tax, cheap insurance, fuel consumption is excellent and you can park it in the smallest of spaces. The 3 Cylinder engine is very pokey and the car is easy to drive. She loves it and you can pick them up at much...

I was on one of the two trains that didn't make it to Forest. We had one transistor radio on our train and tried listening to the match whilst sitting in Kettering Station. The train went mad when Wardy scored. Apparently the first train went through a tunnel and then a timetabled train broke...

My mates all played for Zebras. I believe they and Pathfinders were big rivals at the time!! Didn't Ian Gillard play a few times for England? He would be in his early sixties now. Great memories. Langley was such a good place in those days. Everyone seemed to know each other and when I went...

That's the pub. Still going strong today. I think Ron Hunt's little brother went to Langley Marish School and was in the year below me. From memory he was in the same class as one of my mates. I lived in Darwin Road which was a few minutes walk from St Mary's (the other side of the pre-fabs -...

As a former resident of Langley I had to sign this. I used to go down to the old Greyhound Stadium to watch my old schoolmates play in their various Cup Finals (I moved down to Sussex in 1966 at the age of 7). I used to go back there just to go and watch them play. It used to be such a hotbed...

Agreed, it was 1st October 1983 which coincided with my 25th birthday. I was talking to a Charlton supporter at work the following week and he said that it was the best disply of finishing he had ever seen. Case scored 3 that day. It wasn't like we completely dominated the match, we probably...

Jennings was, quite simply, the best keeper in the world, ever! I can't remember any keeper before, or after, regularly catching the ball with one hand. He was unflappable on crosses, pioneered saving using legs. Wasn't scared to leave his six yard box and his reflexes were on a par with Gordon...

Brian Bromley v Tranmere 11/03/1972. On a sticky pitch he got the ball just outside of his own penalty area and went on a run. Breezed past 3 or 4 Tranmere players before spotting ex-Liverpool keeper Tommy Lawrence off his line. From about 20 yards out he hit the ball sweetly over Lawrence and...

Stamford Bridge in 76 was pretty bad. We were playing Palace in an FA Cup 2nd Replay (the famous Mullery one!!!). The match had been postponed twice and really had to go ahead. What a game!

I, too, was at the Olympic Park yesterday. Had gone for two early Ladies Hockey matches (Aus v S. Africa and Holland v S.Korea). Good atmosphere but nothing prepared me for when I left the Hockey Arena and made my way towards the main Athletics Stadium. We were walking past when a really loud...