[Albion] Overage junior entry at The Goldstone?

[lawros left foot]

Just my luck, I had the reverse happen to me.


I was 15, queuing outside the North stand juniors entrance,when a copper started searching everyone going in . When it got to my turn he told me to turn my pockets out, I had a packet of 10 Number 6,( cigarettes to you youngsters). He asked me how old I was, I told him 15, he said “Right, you’re either 16 and trying to get in on the cheap, or you’re 15 and in illegal possession of a packet of cigarettes, which is it?
I let him keep the fags, but he still refused to let me in the ground. I ended up going on the East stand with no fags.

My mates found it highly amusing.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Christ. What a thread title. I feared it might be a new story about Rix

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Just my luck, I had the reverse happen to me.


I was 15, queuing outside the North stand juniors entrance,when a copper started searching everyone going in . When it got to my turn he told me to turn my pockets out, I had a packet of 10 Number 6,( cigarettes to you youngsters). He asked me how old I was, I told him 15, he said “Right, you’re either 16 and trying to get in on the cheap, or you’re 15 and in illegal possession of a packet of cigarettes, which is it?
I let him keep the fags, but he still refused to let me in the ground. I ended up going on the East stand with no fags.

My mates found it highly amusing.

Haha, unlucky indeed. I just remembered, when I was 15 or 16, I used to hide roll up tobacco in the North Stand bogs, tucking it behind the cistern for easy retrieval in a couple of weeks at the next home game. Didn't think at the time how disgusting that was!

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[Comrade Sam]

I was just telling a class of year 5s, whilst teaching maths today how I had 2 dates of birth to remember, under 16 for the Goldstone and over 18 for the pub. Strange how that was the only proof required for either. Remember being so drunk a police man helped me through the half turnstile away to Oldham in the mid 80s.

 

[Questions]

The famous Nigel Erskine went in the U16 until the Goldstone shut and he was 40….. his dad started going in the seniors when he was late 40’s. Brilliant

 

[bobby baxter]

Have a mate who always wore his school cap (Whitehawk Sec. Mod.) when entering the Goldstone through the junior entrance, still getting away with it when he was eighteen.

Different times.

 

[rigton70]

Not so much at the Goldstone but recall abusing a family rail card for a few seasons with one of us young adults playing adult with the 3 kids (£1 each) on rotation

Was going to post the exact same lol.

We abused this into our mid 20s anywhere in the south east if i remember correctly.

 

[Eeyore]

No chance , I looked like Tom Selleck by the age of 12 and still do now apparently

You really don't. Mind you, I've not see a tash on thee.

 

[mr sheen]

I got in to Peterborough as a pensioner once. Was barely 40 at the time

 

[veuve]

I broke my leg in 88 so had to use the disabled section at the goldstone as was in a wheelchair ,then onto crutches then a cane ,then a limp would appear every match day for the next four seasons.

 

[Simster]

Not at the Goldstone but I did slip into the Wigan promotion game for free at the Amex. I didn't have a ticket because I wasn't in the country, got to the ground at half time and wandered around looking for a way to buy a ticket. In the end, slipped under the electronic turn-style in the lower west stand.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I got in half price at a game at MASSIVE once when I was 22. I just crouched a little at the turnstiles. They obviously look a lot older there.

Well all that child labour down the coal mines takes it out of you you know.

 

[Jesus Gul]

I broke my leg in 88 so had to use the disabled section at the goldstone as was in a wheelchair ,then onto crutches then a cane ,then a limp would appear every match day for the next four seasons.

I may have sat close to you occasionally. Knackered my knee and was on crutches for while. You just hobbled up to the door and got let in. Free footy. Worked a treat for the sold out Millwall play off semi. Proper Kaiser Soze walking away from the Goldstone