Nostalgia

[easytoslip]

3 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Yeah,it was sung by loads of clubs fans back then.

I can't seem to remember that. 

[VladimirIlyich]

6 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

I can't seem to remember that. 

Old Match of The Days and The Big Match had many fans singing it.

[easytoslip]

21 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Old Match of The Days and The Big Match had many fans singing it.

Yes I've heard this but cant remember it at that time, the Manc derby was strange though, outlandish. 

[Elite]

[CapeRed]

On 04/11/2018 at 03:07, Tony Moanero said:

I fuckin loved this game

[VladimirIlyich]

6 hours ago, Elite said:

What is that person talking about? Almost every school in the UK has or had those apparatus things in their school hall or gym. I suspect they don't have them now due to Health and Safety concerns?

[sir roger]

We had wallbars all around the gym, but the beams, pommel horse and vault etc.were in an ante room and didn't always come out for lessons.

[CapeRed]

9 minutes ago, sir roger said:

We had wallbars all around the gym, but the beams, pommel horse and vault etc.were in an ante room and didn't always come out for lessons.

Didnt you have them out for pirates when it was wet at DLS?  Remember hanging from them wall bars doing leg raises as part of fitness training after being press ganged into the cross country team!!

[easytoslip]

And ropes hanging down to climb.Straw mats.

 

 

 

[sir roger]

5 hours ago, CapeRed said:

Didnt you have them out for pirates when it was wet at DLS?  Remember hanging from them wall bars doing leg raises as part of fitness training after being press ganged into the cross country team!!

 

I wasn't in the year with the pirates, CR.

 

Yes the football circuit training used to be full on, with them seeing who could do leg and knee raises for longest while hanging off the wallbars. Some of the lads could barely straighten up when they finished. Looking back I cynically wonder if the 'over zealous' training was really necessary for 14 year old lads.

 

An older lad warned me about trying my best in the first cross country run in case I got in the team, so I called into the little shop by the Dog and Gun ( Rodericks ? ) and ambled in safely near the middle of the pack.

 

I used to get in first on the first day of the school year to claim the back desk by the window to watch the house football games last two periods of the day.

[stringvest]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

 

I wasn't in the year with the pirates, CR.

 

Yes the football circuit training used to be full on, with them seeing who could do leg and knee raises for longest while hanging off the wallbars. Some of the lads could barely straighten up when they finished. Looking back I cynically wonder if the 'over zealous' training was really necessary for 14 year old lads.

 

An older lad warned me about trying my best in the first cross country run in case I got in the team, so I called into the little shop by the Dog and Gun ( Rodericks ? ) and ambled in safely near the middle of the pack.

 

I used to get in first on the first day of the school year to claim the back desk by the window to watch the house football games last two periods of the day.

When I was at DLS the top 10 finishers in the CC run (which went past Melwood) were allowed to play footy in the gym the following week.

[sir roger]

I might have tried if that had been the rule for my yea, Stringy.. From memory there were two routes

 

' The West Derby ' up Muirhead, through West Derby village, down Meadow Lane and across Dwerryhouse back.

 

' Melwood ' Down Carr Lane East, along Crocky Hall Lane past the Training ground and Meadow Lane again.

 

Was gutted when they said Melwood..

[stringvest]

31 minutes ago, sir roger said:

I might have tried if that had been the rule for my yea, Stringy.. From memory there were two routes

 

' The West Derby ' up Muirhead, through West Derby village, down Meadow Lane and across Dwerryhouse back.

 

' Melwood ' Down Carr Lane East, along Crocky Hall Lane past the Training ground and Meadow Lane again.

 

Was gutted when they said Melwood..

 

except you could climb on the wall and watch the training

[CapeRed]

15 hours ago, sir roger said:

 

I wasn't in the year with the pirates, CR.

 

Yes the football circuit training used to be full on, with them seeing who could do leg and knee raises for longest while hanging off the wallbars. Some of the lads could barely straighten up when they finished. Looking back I cynically wonder if the 'over zealous' training was really necessary for 14 year old lads.

 

An older lad warned me about trying my best in the first cross country run in case I got in the team, so I called into the little shop by the Dog and Gun ( Rodericks ? ) and ambled in safely near the middle of the pack.

 

I used to get in first on the first day of the school year to claim the back desk by the window to watch the house football games last two periods of the day.

Yeah , wished somebody had warned me about cross country trials. Good call on the window desks highly sought back then.

[CapeRed]

14 hours ago, sir roger said:

I might have tried if that had been the rule for my yea, Stringy.. From memory there were two routes

 

' The West Derby ' up Muirhead, through West Derby village, down Meadow Lane and across Dwerryhouse back.

 

' Melwood ' Down Carr Lane East, along Crocky Hall Lane past the Training ground and Meadow Lane again.

 

Was gutted when they said Melwood..

On the days we couldn’t play footy the run was down Muirhead, left at the tech college then through Earl of Derby estate , crocky hall lane, deerryhouse and back to DLS

[Total Longo]

On 03/11/2018 at 16:06, Tony Moanero said:

 

Took me about a minute to realise that there wasn't a missing comma after "hot bovril"  

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