[Football] Quite a sobering thought

[Dave the OAP]

I received my renewal for the ST today through the post.

it actually gave me a bit of a jolt as I have moved into the 65+ bracket.

so throughout my adult life, from going through the under 16 gates on the chicken run in 1975, hardly missing any home games since right through to now at the Amex. I am now officially an old git!

all the times that it would have been very easy to walk away….dark days of archer and dreadful football at a ground being allowed to decay in front of our eyes , travelling to the arse end of Kent, so many highs and lows at Withdean and then the strange emotions at the Amex with promotion to the promised lands, brilliant times, tedious football right through to the best team I have ever seen and one of the best managers we have ever had

still like to take a flask in though…mulligatawny soup at half time…mmmmm isn’t it….jumpers for goalposts!

marvellous

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Welcome to the nostalgia club!

 

[Jack Straw]

Welcome to the nostalgia club!

It's not like it was though?

 

[Taybha]

Awww if only I had a Werther's on me to cheer you up a bit.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Old git

 

[schmunk]

still like to take a flask in though…mulligatawny soup at half time…mmmmm isn’t it….jumpers for goalposts!

marvellous

You could wear a Camelbak under your coat? Discreet sips from your straw at your leisure...

3 Litres! https://www.camelbak.co.uk/reservoirs-c39/stoaway-insulated-reservoir-3l-p126

 

[keitho54]

You could wear a Camelbak under your coat? Discreet sips from your straw at your leisure...

3 Litres! https://www.camelbak.co.uk/reservoirs-c39/stoaway-insulated-reservoir-3l-p126

Suspect if OP's anything like me, 3 litres of soup and he'd see more of the loo than the match!

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I received my renewal for the ST today through the post.

it actually gave me a bit of a jolt as I have moved into the 65+ bracket.

so throughout my adult life, from going through the under 16 gates on the chicken run in 1975, hardly missing any home games since right through to now at the Amex. I am now officially an old git!

all the times that it would have been very easy to walk away….dark days of archer and dreadful football at a ground being allowed to decay in front of our eyes , travelling to the arse end of Kent, so many highs and lows at Withdean and then the strange emotions at the Amex with promotion to the promised lands, brilliant times, tedious football right through to the best team I have ever seen and one of the best managers we have ever had

still like to take a flask in though…mulligatawny soup at half time…mmmmm isn’t it….jumpers for goalposts!

marvellous

You're not old until your hearing goes.


I SAID YOU'RE NOT OLD UNTIL......

 

[timbha]

At your age you should be cruising and making air fix models

 

[Jim in the West]

I had a similar sort of experience recently - not sure what triggered it, but having reached 60 last September I’ve notched up over 53 years of following the Albion. I suddenly realised that’s nearly half the time the club has existed. Yet, in my mind, BHAFC has always existed, and I still think of myself as fairly young!! So I can’t quite get my head around it all. Those wonderful photos of the massed ranks of flat caps on the west terrace seem almost pre-historic, whilst memories of Kit Napier bearing down on goal as I sat next to my dad at the back of the south stand…well, they seem just like yesterday