Where are they now? Ticker Tape Welcomes.

[coffeymagic]

How many fivers did you accidently throw into the air during the Phil Neal era? I know I lost one at Scunthorpe.

Nowadays teenages spend Friday nights drinking these so called 'alco-pops' and knifing each other but when I was a lad me and my mates used to sit in tearing up anything made of paper into shreds to give the emerging Superwhites a welcome that would make Neil Armstrong, Diego Maradona or Hong Kong Phoey hang their heads in shame.

Grown men walking down Croft Lane with tesco, or even binbags full of torn up BEN's, birth-certificates, wedding photos - ANYTHING, ready to toss handful after handful into the air as our heros strode heroically bemused on to the pitch.

I did pity the young lads that had to sweep up the aftermath of this maelstrom but it did used to look jolly good.

I know it's all about the ipad and mobile phone now and throwing your Kindle into the air probably contravenes a thousand health and safety regulations, if not the manufacturers warantee but at least it can be classed as recycling.

I don't know who started it, when they started it or why.

Bring it back.

[thebish]

i suspect it has been stopped because there is too much danger of the maelstrom of tiny bits of paper injuring or scaring our delicately-constitutioned players...

[jaffka]

Could be an offence under the Football (Offences) Act 1991

[Prufrock]

I've just had a blast from the past! In my case that is about ten years ago, but still. There was one woman who sat about five or six rows back from us in the North Stand Upper. Before every game she'd have one such bag, filled with ripped up newspaper! Her and her kid would throw about three handfuls each in the air, get bored and then clod the whole lot out in one go. This would of course, without fail, every time land right on my head. I used to walk around for days shedding newspaper from my hood. I've never seen one other person doing this at the bok. She disappeared one summer. It's not been the same since.

[Bruce Rioja]

Ah, but before the bits of torn paper, or 'doing an Argentina' as it was known, there were bog roll streamers. Whatever happened to them, eh?

[thebish]

Ah, but before the bits of torn paper, or 'doing an Argentina' as it was known, there were bog roll streamers. Whatever happened to them, eh?

public buildings got wise and installed fort-knox bog-roll dispensers that bite your hands off before letting you have one sheet at a time!!

[Joggers Nipple]

I don't know who started it, when they started it or why.

Bring it back.

It was first seen by the masses at the World Cup in 1978 whenever Argentina took to the field & started in the UK initially by Spurs after they signed Argentine World Cup winners Ricky Villa & Ozzy Ardiles.

BWFC fans used to do it in the early 80's as a piss take cos we were so cack & I mean CACK! Much cackier than we are now..

[jaffka]

Ah, but before the bits of torn paper, or 'doing an Argentina' as it was known, there were bog roll streamers. Whatever happened to them, eh?

I remember going for a sh*t at Grimsby and seeing the bog roll thrown onto the pitch, not what you want to see...

[Worthy4England]

Ah, but before the bits of torn paper, or 'doing an Argentina' as it was known, there were bog roll streamers. Whatever happened to them, eh?

I remember going for a sh*t at Grimsby and seeing the bog roll thrown onto the pitch, not what you want to see...

Before or after?

[jaffka]

Ah, but before the bits of torn paper, or 'doing an Argentina' as it was known, there were bog roll streamers. Whatever happened to them, eh?

I remember going for a sh*t at Grimsby and seeing the bog roll thrown onto the pitch, not what you want to see...

Before or after?

before

[Harry Genshaw]

I used to love throwing ticker tape on at away games in the 80s. Even though we were really bad in them days, our away support was something to behold at times.

As for bog rolls I fear I may have played a part in that coming to an end - getting nicked walking into the ground at Notts County because I had half a dozen British Rail bog rolls in mi bag They let me go an hour or so later, (I paid twice to get in - couldn't afford that today!) with a flea in my ear that if I had thrown one, they'd have charged me for 'launching a missile'

[Bruce Rioja]

Ah, but before the bits of torn paper, or 'doing an Argentina' as it was known, there were bog roll streamers. Whatever happened to them, eh?

I remember going for a sh*t at Grimsby and seeing the bog roll thrown onto the pitch, not what you want to see...

Sorry mate, but that is piss funny

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Lovely memory, TC. I used to do a bit of this in me mid-teens, often (as you say) helped out the night before by mates. I'd take the "ticker tape" - actually just ripped-up newspapers or Yellow Pages – to the match in a boot-bag and we'd lash it up when the Whites came on the pitch. (Once we decided to hold some back for after goals, but then the buggers didn't score, and it was extra demoralising to have to cart shredded celebration-paper round after a defeat.)

Oh and once I got over-keen and chucked up with the shreds not a fiver but my season ticket. And this was in September. Reported it near where we stood at the back of the Paddock and by half-time it had been handed in and was back in my pocket. Community?

[coffeymagic]

Ah the flying bog-roll? Is there a more beautiful sight in football than a long arcing streamer launced from the back of the stands?

Soaring majestically through the air, briefly kissing the cold, clear night sky, before diving elegantly towards the ground, one long tail feather defying gravity trailing behind like a resplendent swan landing on a moon lit, perfectly still Scottish Loch?

[Joggers Nipple]

Oh and once I got over-keen and chucked up with the shreds not a fiver but my season ticket. And this was in September. Reported it near where we stood at the back of the Paddock and by half-time it had been handed in and was back in my pocket. Community?

In my youth I once went to the fair before a match & lost my boys season ticket on the Waltzer, later that evening we got a call from Bolton Police to say it had been handed in by one of the fairground lads. It changed my misconceptions..

[General Mannerheim]

as if you go for a shit in a football ground!?

animal.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

as if you go for a shit in a football ground!?

It's been a while since I gave a shit in a football ground...

[jaffka]

as if you go for a shit in a football ground!?

animal.

have you gone soft as you get older?

if you have got to got, you got to go

[89bwfc89]

Be great if someone organised to bring this back for a game!

[TANGODANCER]

Ah the flying bog-roll? Is there a more beautiful sight in football than a long arcing streamer launced from the back of the stands?

Soaring majestically through the air, briefly kissing the cold, clear night sky, before diving elegantly towards the ground, one long tail feather defying gravity trailing behind like a resplendent swan landing on a moon lit, perfectly still Scottish Loch?

Well, it certainly beats the contents of somebody's insides in a plastic bag, zooming down from the depths of an Everton zoo cage.