You can have a pretty amazing walk from Arlington to Capitol Hill (or vice-versa) taking in a number of sights along the way. It's an excellent, if knackering, way of getting your bearings as well. This is what immediately springs to mind ...
- Start at Arlington Cemetery Metro
- Aim for...
Around 69/70 match day prices to the best of my recollection were
- Chicken Run: adult 5 bob, kids half-a-crown
- North Stand: adult 7/-, kids 4 shillings
Sir Norman Gall couldn't turn on a sixpence but he'd happily give you a fourpenny one. John Templeman had a head like a thrupenny bit and...
I bloody did - have to come back for a work thing in Newcastle on Sept 1st-3rd Have to be in California the previous Friday ... just effing effety **** **** is all I can say.
Such a tragedy - people like Donny who give so readily are the ones who create communities and contribute so much to society. If only there were a few more like him.
RIP
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I can understand those tossers from up the road being tolerated on threads concerning their miserable five year old club.
But starting threads by posting links to their own forum?
FFS Mods ... get a grip.
Frankly I don't believe you. I was there in 1980 when the delightful locals urinated on us from the stand above. The equally charming police just laughed as they got ready to baton charge us. It wasn't much better in 1990. And if you think the British press are more eager to blame local...
There was a free Boro scarf on my seat (was in the main stand). I offered it to a chap called Ramirez to use as a bandage but it turned out he only needed a plaster (and some oxygen).
After the game the scarf was donated to a large thorny bush near the ground.
Middlesbrough main stand surrounded by smoggies. Hundreds of em I tell ya. Scarf wrapped around my middle, avoiding eye contact and definitely not speaking to anyone.
I do the screaming bit on my occasional visits but this just seems to trigger pitying, scornful or quizzical looks from the desiccated JCLs sprinkled across the sparsely populated corners of WSL. CJTCs the lot of em!
We should all scream "Storeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer" when the last goal at the Goldstone goes in. Fun for the kids, reinforces history and, if enough of us do it, it will frighten the **** out of anyone not paying attention.