The Things About Football That Make You Realise You’re Old As Fuck Thread

[an tha]

Being in the wrong end and getting escorted into the right one.

[Mudface]

6 minutes ago, an tha said:

Being in the wrong end and getting escorted into the right one.

 

Birds these days, eh?

[TheHowieLama]

Things about Football that make you Realise you're Old as Fuck.

 

Playing it.

[Reckoner]

4 hours ago, deiseach said:

 

I remember scoffing at the carpet slippers and pipe brigade in the Main Stand. Life comes at you fast.

My mars in her 70s and still goes in the kop. She tells people off if they get on the players backs.

[an tha]

36 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

Birds these days, eh?

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Le Duan said:

Also went to Sir Roger’s testimonial - 55,000 crowd - mental!

 

My dad ( and quite a few more adults ) bribed the Boys Pen turnstile operator a quid to get in that night. The guy must have done very well out of it.

 

My dad never quite forgave me for having my confirmation on the same night as Bill Shankly's testimonial a few years later.

[VladimirIlyich]

6 hours ago, sir roger said:

 

My dad ( and quite a few more adults ) bribed the Boys Pen turnstile operator a quid to get in that night. The guy must have done very well out of it.

 

My dad never quite forgave me for having my confirmation on the same night as Bill Shankly's testimonial a few years later.

I just never turned up for my confirmation. A Christening and Holy Communion were as much shite as I could take.

[sir roger]

3 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I just never turned up for my confirmation. A Christening and Holy Communion were as much shite as I could take.

 

You were obviously not as scared of Monsignor Doran's cane ( and other things  ).

[Le Duan]

12 hours ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

Haven't seen David Fairclough come off the bench recently.

 

Is he injured?

 

 

Went to the same school as him, Evered Avenue in Walton. He was sixth form whilst I was in the first year. Remember a five-a-side tournament where teams from each year played each other. Lower years got goal starts based on the year-gap. Our team got a five goal start and in 5 minutes we were 6-5 down and Fairclough had scored them all. Fucking flat track bully!

[Le Duan]

After much Googling I discovered the testimonial game that I can just about remember going to. My mum took me - Gerry Byrne - think it was Steve Heighway’s first game for Liverpool. Can anyone confirm that please?

[Kepler-186]

17 hours ago, sir roger said:

If I was with my dad I went on the Kop, but on my own I started my supporting mainly in the Boys Pen. You would never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Slightly later at about 14 I started going away on the notorious football specials, being marched through boring city centres being gawked at by peasants, bricked by mutants  and walloped by police, and I loved it all.

 

The other week I was offered a free ticket for one of the Europa hone games with a promised lift door to door, and couldn't be arsed because it was cold. I have become a disgrace to our wonderful club.

 

 

Doesn’t quite work to In My Life but I like it 

[RJ Fan club]

22 hours ago, Dapower said:

Getting my first Yearbook from the souvenir shop back of the kop 1985

I was mesmerised by the old club shop advert in the back of the programme of that era.

 

Fuck knows why, they only sold the odd scarf, hat or a scale model of the ground. 
 

It was the model that I taken by, the different colour seats and the standing area of the Anny Road specifically.

 

It was probably about £50, but it seemed a fortune then, wish I’d have had enough to buy one!

[Bjornebye]

22 hours ago, tokyojoe said:

£6.30 for a Kop Season Ticket.

Mate it was half a shekel when you were a kid 

[Dapower]

9 hours ago, RJ Fan club said:

I was mesmerised by the old club shop advert in the back of the programme of that era.

 

Fuck knows why, they only sold the odd scarf, hat or a scale model of the ground. 
 

It was the model that I taken by, the different colour seats and the standing area of the Anny Road specifically.

 

It was probably about £50, but it seemed a fortune then, wish I’d have had enough to buy one!

I had the model ground the flagpole end of the kop looked like the sunken bow of the titanic plenty of superglue holding it in place too

[RJ Fan club]

8 hours ago, Dapower said:

I had the model ground the flagpole end of the kop looked like the sunken bow of the titanic plenty of superglue holding it in place too

That’s ruined a near 40 year old dream!!!

 

but the 7 ye old me would still get one 

[Bob]

22 minutes ago, RJ Fan club said:

That’s ruined a near 40 year old dream!!!

 

but the 7 ye old me would still get one 

Think this is newer than the one you wanted, but it's still an older version of Anfield. It's already sold, so you can't have it, but at least you can look.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335051598563

 

[Dapower]

3 hours ago, RJ Fan club said:

That’s ruined a near 40 year old dream!!!

 

but the 7 ye old me would still get one 

I’d love a model of the current ground can’t find any good sturdy ones

[Trumo]

I'm still younger now than Teddy Sheringham was when he was playing for England.

[Peter Cormack]

On 15/03/2024 at 12:48, Le Duan said:

After much Googling I discovered the testimonial game that I can just about remember going to. My mum took me - Gerry Byrne - think it was Steve Heighway’s first game for Liverpool. Can anyone confirm that please?

 

[Peter Cormack]

It was indeed Heighway‘s first game, I remember how quick he was when he first got the ball. Came on at haif time I think. I think it was half a crown to get in the kop when I first went it was 3 bob for a good while. I eventually graduated from the kop to the paddock, by the trainers‘ box. 

[Peter Cormack]

I remember when the sub wore a dark grey pullover over his kit. Uncle Bob the same

[VladimirIlyich]

On 15/03/2024 at 14:09, Bjornebye said:

Mate it was half a shekel when you were a kid 

It was a week's rent on the ground when Stringy was a kid. Some bitter fellas even missed a few payments and lost their seats.

[tokyojoe]

Being small enough to crawl under the turnstiles at Wembley. Getting thrown out and still being small enough to get back in again.

[The wanderer]

16 hours ago, Peter Cormack said:

It was indeed Heighway‘s first game, I remember how quick he was when he first got the ball. Came on at haif time I think. I think it was half a crown to get in the kop when I first went it was 3 bob for a good while. I eventually graduated from the kop to the paddock, by the trainers‘ box. 

I started in the boys pen ,a place full of pond life, graduated to the Kop from there , Happy days . Took my youngest brother to his first game and we stood in the paddock v Sunderland.

[VladimirIlyich]

34 minutes ago, The wanderer said:

I started in the boys pen ,a place full of pond life, graduated to the Kop from there , Happy days . Took my youngest brother to his first game and we stood in the paddock v Sunderland.

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