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Post by Reebok Rules » Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:32 pm

Newbie in peace ;)

First match ..... can't remember, but around 1954 I'd guess - taken by dad of course. I wasn't too impressed by the match and spent the time trying to get away and run around the terrace. dad used to play in a local team (goalie) and if he took me I could spend more useful time exploring ditches and woodlands surrounding the ground.

The first match I actually remember was the 1958 cup final - watched on a relative's TV 'coz we were too poor to afford our own (all together now ... awwwwww)

I have lived in Essex and Kent since 1970 so my visits to Burnden were pretty much restricted to when I visited my parents and since their deaths I haven't been back :(

I DO try to get to the more local "away" fixtures, but work takes up a lot of my time (but retirement isn't far away!)

This looks to be a nice website and I hope to be a productive member of it :lol:

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Post by Worthy4England » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:16 pm

Welcome and enjoy your stay.

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Re: Hello

Post by Lofthouse Lower » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:21 pm

Are you anything to do with Essex Whites?

There's a lad that brings a flag from that lot each away game, and spend the entire game stood at the back wearing shorts and bending everyone's ear about how great the EDL are. I can't stand him.

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Post by Hoboh » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:06 pm

Welcome

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Post by Dujon » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:59 pm

Reebok Rules wrote:Newbie in peace ;)

First match ..... can't remember, but around 1954 I'd guess - taken by dad of course. I wasn't too impressed by the match and spent the time trying to get away and run around the terrace. dad used to play in a local team (goalie) and if he took me I could spend more useful time exploring ditches and woodlands surrounding the ground.

The first match I actually remember was the 1958 cup final - watched on a relative's TV 'coz we were too poor to afford our own (all together now ... awwwwww)

I have lived in Essex and Kent since 1970 so my visits to Burnden were pretty much restricted to when I visited my parents and since their deaths I haven't been back :(
Welcome aboard, RR. Ah, them were the days, lad. :oops:

I only found out about the 'Matthews Final' of 1953 when my dad came home from work. By the time the '58 victory came about I was living 'down' here and I can't honestly remember when I found out we'd won. That's the price of separation, I guess. Anyway, I'm glad you found this site as, overall at least, the mob you'll find here are a pretty decent bunch. :pissed:

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Welcome aboard

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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:02 pm

Glad to have another old timer around. Welcome.
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Post by Worthy4England » Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:27 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:Glad to have another old timer around. Welcome.
I hope he's not as grumpy as the rest of them. :twisted:

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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:40 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Montreal Wanderer wrote:Glad to have another old timer around. Welcome.
I hope he's not as grumpy as the rest of them. :twisted:
Old men are supposed to be grumpy...Hey, I think there could be a movie in this.
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Re: Hello

Post by Dujon » Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:57 pm

Miss! ... MISS!

Worthy4England's crawling around on the floor pulling all our legs!

Miss! ... MISS! :mrgreen:

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Post by Wandering Willy » Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:42 am

Dujon wrote:Miss! ... MISS!

Worthy4England's crawling around on the floor pulling all our legs!

Miss! ... MISS! :mrgreen:
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:08 pm

Reebok Rules wrote:I wasn't too impressed by the match and spent the time trying to get away and run around the terrace.
In the mid 70's whenever the game was rubbish, my mate and I used to have this game whereby we'd count how many people we could see sparking up in the facing Manny Road.

Maybe other posters................. etc. etc.

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Post by Gaz Tomorrow » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:55 pm

Lofthouse Lower wrote:Are you anything to do with Essex Whites?

There's a lad that brings a flag from that lot each away game, and spend the entire game stood at the back wearing shorts and bending everyone's ear about how great the EDL are. I can't stand him.
Thought these days were long gone. Ive never seen him but he sounds like a c**t.

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Post by Zulus Thousand of em » Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:05 am

Welcome Reebok Rules! I'm always happy to greet a new poster who's older than me. It doesn't happen much, mind! :D
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Re: Hello

Post by Reebok Rules » Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:08 pm

Are you anything to do with Essex Whites?

Erm ...... no!

However, it's possible I have met him.

In one of those spooky co-incidences a few years ago.

An office outing to a Romford bowling alley - I wore my Bolton top. In an area saturated with Whammers and Arses (can I say that?) in the very next lane to me was someone wearing a Bolton top!

There are quite a few exiled southerners though (it USED to be where the work was, but now we are as impoverished as the rest of the country!)

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Post by David Lee's Hair » Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:15 pm

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Post by jaffka » Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 pm

Yes, welcome.

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Welcome

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