BHA v. Soton (2 Jan1978)

[Gregory2Smith1]

what a game this was!

am i right in thinking lawro scored a great indiviaul goal (equaliser?)

southampton brought loads up,that temporary scaffolding put up to keep them off the fence got dismantled and chucked towards the north stand

seem to recall a bottle being exchanged like a tennis match

never forget the saints fan who climbed right to the top of the floodlights in the north-east corner

what a great season that was,apart from the last day stich up,here we are 34 years later!

any memories of that game or that season in general?

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

This season is turning out to be less like 1977/78 and more like 1972/73!

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

what a game this was!

am i right in thinking lawro scored a great indiviaul goal (equaliser?)

southampton brought loads up,that temporary scaffolding put up to keep them off the fence got dismantled and chucked towards the north stand

seem to recall a bottle being exchanged like a tennis match

never forget the saints fan who climbed right to the top of the floodlights in the north-east corner

what a great season that was,apart from the last day stich up,here we are 34 years later!

any memories of that game or that season in general?

My old man bollocking me for joining in with 'we all agree, Alan Ball is a wanker'. Seemed like the whole ground was singning it!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

My old man bollocking me for joining in with 'we all agree, Alan Ball is a wanker'. Seemed like the whole ground was singning it!

Y'serious, Alan Ball who helped England to win the World Cup? A hero!

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Yep. Looking back on it now, it does seem it was a daft & disrespectful thing to sing to a WC winner but I guess tribal rivalry on the day saw that go out of the window. Bloody loud it was too.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

My old man bollocking me for joining in with 'we all agree, Alan Ball is a wanker'. Seemed like the whole ground was singning it!

LOL... you too...?! A loud chorus from 9 year old Moshe back at The Vicarage after the game didn't go down too well - it was my eldest brother who I remember ticking me off...

 

[Lord Bamber]

LOL... you too...?! A loud chorus from 9 year old Moshe back at The Vicarage after the game didn't go down too well - it was my eldest brother who I remember ticking me off...

Ha Ha - Ticking you off - Even language of the day being used.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

AB was arugably MoM had a great game (world cup final,that is)

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Very tense game although I can't remember much about it other than the Saints fan climbing to the top of the floodlights.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

My old man bollocking me for joining in with 'we all agree, Alan Ball is a wanker'. Seemed like the whole ground was singning it!

My dad tells me of this-went on for ages and he liked a good sing up,but even he said it got embarrassing in the end.....love it

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

32,000 plus at this game

 

[jevs]

Did it finnish 1-1 ? I remember a lot of saints fans over in the north east terrace and they were pretty vocal.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Yep. Looking back on it now, it does seem it was a daft & disrespectful thing to sing to a WC winner but I guess tribal rivalry on the day saw that go out of the window. Bloody loud it was too.

indeed, but in them days people certainly did 'sing what they liked' ('Richard Reynolds Haircut' would have had a 'cringe' meltdown!) anything went, some songs that spring to mind inc. one about Lord Mountbatten being blown up by the IRA, a particularly racist version of 'Brown Girl in The Ring', Newcastle fans 'Getting A Kicking' and even Arsenal fans burning in the Kings Cross fire of 87! on reflecton "We're Fuckin Brilliant..." doesn't seem so bad

 

[Brovion]

Y'serious, Alan Ball who helped England to win the World Cup? A hero!

But playing for the scummers and thus fair game. I remember him sarcastically conducting the crowd who were singing Alan Alan Alan Ball, oh wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank!" And it DID seem like the whole ground were singing it!

EDIT: Just wanted to add that also by this time the glory of the World Cup win had long vanished; after all we'd gone TWELVE YEARS without winning another international trophy, indeed we hadn't even qualified for the 1974 and 1978 world cups! The general view at the time was that as England were one of the world's top football nations this failure was as lamentable as it was inexplicable.