It brings back memories of one of my late Dad's stories. A big Luton supporter and a coach driver he drove a coach load of friends down to the match making sure they made enough stops on the way that he was somewhat drunk for the return journey. Good job there were no breathalysers!
I tell the young mambers of the family stories of the old days, but they have heard them so often they just yawn now! Stuff like only one cold water tap in the house, no bathroom, shitting in a bucket across the yard (this was in 1956, we got mains drainage in 1957 which I remember because they were putting the bathroom in at the time of promotion), lighting the copper boiler to do the weekly wash every Monday morning etc. The grandparents lived in the house from 1922 until grandad died in 1963 and they never had a fridge, telephone, TV or a car.
My children were horrified when we first told them that we used to drive about with them in a carry cot perched on the back seat of the car. Seat belts, breathalysers, MOTs such modern inventions!
I hope you had good aim !
I've seen it back again quite a few times Ian, and every time I do it takes me back to watching it live as a 10-year-old on our tiny tele in the front room of our house in the Meadows. My oldest brother Doug, who was 18 at the time, was fortunate to be there.
I was only four but do remember snatches of the excitement, the main clear recollection I have is about 3" plastic replica of the FA cup with red and white ribbons on purchased from Woollies.
I'd like to say that I might have heard the game, on the tv, but as an around 3 month foetus my ears wouldn't have been developed enough.
I was 2. And my dad only understood curling and tossing the caber anyway.I'd like to say that I might have heard the game, on the tv, but as an around 3 month foetus my ears wouldn't have been developed enough.
Your dad should have been a Derby fan. In the 60s and 70s you could probably have played something akin to curling in the mud at the baseball ground.
If the shinpad on the left was any bigger you could imagine him getting called offside because of itForest players from 1946 Wood, Lawson and Langton. Right trio of hardnuts by the look of it (great shinpads though).
We should have bought all the houses in the background at that timeForest players from 1946 Wood, Lawson and Langton. Right trio of hardnuts by the look of it (great shinpads though).
Especially with VAR.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of.
As cheap as they probably were at that time I suspect that the committee probably would have thought we couldn't afford them. '46 was an exceptional year with a profit of £2,700, but that still left them with a debt of just over £8,000.
Filmed by somebody with a fixation about bald heads, given the concentration on Messrs Charlton and Hennessey!
Rare colour match footage from the 1960’s, there is also colour film of the 1959 FA cup final on YouTube which for me added a whole new dimension