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Mr Anon 6:28 Sat May 20
Football crowds in the 60's

http://youtu.be/XNboU_PbZMY

Great little video, makes me sad I missed this golden age of being a football supporter. I hope one day we'll be trusted to stand again!

Ps yes OS isn't built for football blah blah

BRANDED 10:41 Sun May 21
Re: Football crowds in the 60's

good crowd at Tranmere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHDmskeGARk

Saul Bollox 3:27 Sun May 21
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I used to go every week in 1685 with my mate, the composer Henry Purcell who was also an ardent Hammers fan. I recall that he wrote a charming Madrigal that we used to sing in the Chicken run. It used to go:

"Thou art going to get thy fuckinge heddes kicked in.....2

Alfie 3:14 Sun May 21
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In 1967 i accompanied Jonatham Merrick to a football fuxture between west ham united and manchester united at the boleyn ground.

Merrick was noticed in advance , seen on his way down green street thoroughfare. His gigantically proportioned head was adorned in a cockney bobble hat, and about his neck was slung an enormous knitted neckerchief and throat scarf in the hue of claret and blue. It was like textile swathed round a cruelly lumpy head - like a bulb of tit meat all pushed out of shape and bizarre

From his nose there shone a big bulbous claret schnozz tip like a gigant carroty fucking bugle.

It was like an elected whipped up broth of poxy times war films and damp socks from where the grass walked through is long overgrown and has pill boxes amid it where drugs are took at night

Knees wet in the long grass, run into the fields the farmer would rather no one go in but no one says anything because kids have always done it and someone died of asthma in there in the late 70s

The ambulance men did not get there in time.

The pill box in the field that no ones ever bin in but someones died in

Travelling Iron 3:14 Sun May 21
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I think it was Liverpool that ruined all this at the Leppins Lane end some years later

BRANDED 1:07 Sun May 21
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beatles and liverpool!

makes me want to have a shit

Cheezey Bell-End 1:06 Sun May 21
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I think the hooligan era ruined it all.. And eventually ageing stadiums.

The Fonz 12:58 Sun May 21
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I was born in the wrong era.

Would have loved this.

Hello Mrs. Jones 10:54 Sat May 20
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Most wearing ties..

Cheezey Bell-End 10:51 Sat May 20
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I believe speedway and rugby league used to have similar crowds a long time ago.

Sven Roeder 7:20 Sat May 20
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Crystal Palace probably do a few show tunes.
In full make up and body stockings

Lily Hammer 7:10 Sat May 20
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You won't get many football crowds taking on "Anyone Who Had A Heart" these days. Fair play to the real Kop, long deceased.


1min47secs, top left, Stan Boardman.

ted fenton 7:09 Sat May 20
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Happy days of growing up and going with my Dad and then my mates.
The whole area was West Ham coming out of their houses in claret & blue.

All gone now sadly.

Far Cough 7:05 Sat May 20
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Arf at the Kop singing Beatles songs and the commentator using the word gay in it's old sense

Mr Anon 7:04 Sat May 20
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Yeah Jim, also noticed they sang Saints Go Marching In

jim@chickenrun 6:56 Sat May 20
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Good watch...I remember those swaying crowds in the old wooden chicken run,and if u stood behind the goal and there was a goal or close miss you ended up 30 foot from where you were before!...also notice from this Liverpool had not yet adopted you'll never walk alone(Gerry and the pacemakers1963)as there anthem yet..ours,bubbles has been sung science the 1920s....

Northern Sold 6:32 Sat May 20
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Yeah the Cesspit isn't built for football