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Post by sword65 on Oct 12, 2023 23:17:56 GMT
I was a steward on the Sheffield train and my job was to confiscate alcohol as it was supposed to be a dry train. I got shitfaced long before reaching Sheffield.🤣🍺🤣🍺
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Post by nws on Oct 13, 2023 6:26:20 GMT
On a personal note I believe I was at all 31 matches. Perhaps surprisingly? its some of the Home games that are less memorable. All 31. Wow! That is a feat of endurance
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Post by bigmatt on Oct 13, 2023 10:34:08 GMT
My son was a ball boy at Watford, they treated him very well and it is one of his best memories. Was a great experience......we went up in the MUFC Mini Bus as we had to be there well in advance, my dad was driving (now you know who I am!). Coming back the snow was getting worse as we headed into Kent, we dropped everyone off, and the mini bus - got back home I think around 7-8pm. Where we lived on the side of Blue Bell Hill - the car was parked on the Old Chatham Road and we walked down to the house.....couldn't get cars out of the Estate for 5 days or so.... The following year - dad managed to arrange through the club a piece of PR with Sheffield United - George McCabe was our host who was a referee in the 1966 World Cup Finals (https://www.worldfootball.net/referee_summary/george-mccabe/3/1/wm-1966-in-england/)......if memory serves me right - it was guard of honour with the Sheff Utd ball boys etc.
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Post by pigbag on Oct 13, 2023 21:47:20 GMT
It was not just rosette pins that were confiscated at Watford, someone must have been selling flags and the stewards confiscated all of the flag sticks.
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Post by nws on Oct 15, 2023 5:12:00 GMT
www.bbc.com/sport/football/49800842Just seen this. Probably commented on at the time. Two glaring inaccuracies. We were not nomads for 24 years. We did not always get 300-400 in the county leagues years.
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Post by daveu on Oct 15, 2023 19:56:05 GMT
www.bbc.com/sport/football/49800842Just seen this. Probably commented on at the time. Two glaring inaccuracies. We were not nomads for 24 years. We did not always get 300-400 in the county leagues years. We may not have been nomads for 24 years but the town was without a senior club for that time. We weren’t a senior club until the move to Sittingbourne.
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Post by nws on Oct 16, 2023 13:18:10 GMT
www.bbc.com/sport/football/49800842Just seen this. Probably commented on at the time. Two glaring inaccuracies. We were not nomads for 24 years. We did not always get 300-400 in the county leagues years. We may not have been nomads for 24 years but the town was without a senior club for that time. We weren’t a senior club until the move to Sittingbourne. Blimey. That night there were 200 odd fans at London Road celebrating us getting our senior status back was all a dream...
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Post by Scot Stone on Oct 16, 2023 13:40:31 GMT
We may not have been nomads for 24 years but the town was without a senior club for that time. We weren’t a senior club until the move to Sittingbourne. Blimey. That night there were 200 odd fans at London Road celebrating us getting our senior status back was all a dream... some were very odd fans indeed IIRC we were granted senior status well before the end of our last season (can't call it a promotion season) in the KCL Prem
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Post by headstone on Oct 16, 2023 14:25:12 GMT
But what does senior status actually mean!!
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Post by sword65 on Oct 16, 2023 15:04:19 GMT
But what does senior status actually mean!! It means you can play in senior Cup competitions FA Cup/trophy/vase and County cups whereas junior/intermediate clubs cannot,they have their own cups. The Stones won most if not all of them in the early years.
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Post by nws on Oct 16, 2023 15:08:59 GMT
But what does senior status actually mean!! Not junior?
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Post by sword65 on Oct 16, 2023 16:31:18 GMT
But what does senior status actually mean!! Not junior? Boca juniors are senior.
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Post by jdl on Oct 16, 2023 21:13:06 GMT
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Post by yorkshirestone on Oct 17, 2023 6:53:57 GMT
Love that TVS clip, shame the VCR has a sense of humour failure as me and my dad pass the camera on that walk from the platform.
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