Any of you lot remember this 13:20 - Jul 18 with 1360 views | Keno | |  |
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Any of you lot remember this on 13:23 - Jul 18 with 1283 views | Ftnfwest | just (and only just) before my time |  | |  |
Any of you lot remember this on 13:31 - Jul 18 with 1187 views | monty_radio | There was always a cheer when a big Centre Half, say Andy Nelson came across to clear the ball and launched it out into Portman Rd just for good measure. You could also sometimes hear people saying, "keep it on the island". |  |
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Any of you lot remember this on 13:44 - Jul 18 with 1090 views | trncbluearmy | Remember it, I've got a bit of it. Is this the one, minus my bit, that ended up at the speedway and is it still there? |  | |  |
Any of you lot remember this on 13:59 - Jul 18 with 997 views | Miaow | That would have been the last match before Bobby Robson was appointed two days later. |  |
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Any of you lot remember this on 14:00 - Jul 18 with 986 views | floridablue | One of my first ever visits to Portman Road was sitting in the 'Chicken Run'. A family friend took me along as her husband could not make it. It was the FA cup game against Soke City with Stanley Matthews playing. I think that was the season after Town were crowned champions so 62/63 season. uncanny, as my last visits to the stadium, back in 02/03 were more or less in the same spot up in the Cobbold stand 40 years on!! |  | |  |
Any of you lot remember this on 14:04 - Jul 18 with 954 views | Meadowlark | Yeah. I started at Portman Road just a few months earlier than Foz. I still call its replacement "the new stand" on occasion..... |  | |  |
Any of you lot remember this on 14:06 - Jul 18 with 944 views | DJR | I only stood in it once, and from memory it was a League Cup game against Stoke City which had a full capacity of 30,000. I chose it because of the crowd outside Churchmans' and got in just as they closed the entry gates behind me. EDIT: it was a 5th round FA Cup replay on 16 February 1971. [Post edited 18 Jul 16:16]
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Any of you lot remember this on 14:08 - Jul 18 with 917 views | ArnieM | My first game that year was stood at the front of the North Stand. We lost 1-0 to Derby, I was 11yrs old. Been going ever-increasing. |  |
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Any of you lot remember this on 15:23 - Jul 18 with 773 views | monty_radio |
Any of you lot remember this on 14:00 - Jul 18 by floridablue | One of my first ever visits to Portman Road was sitting in the 'Chicken Run'. A family friend took me along as her husband could not make it. It was the FA cup game against Soke City with Stanley Matthews playing. I think that was the season after Town were crowned champions so 62/63 season. uncanny, as my last visits to the stadium, back in 02/03 were more or less in the same spot up in the Cobbold stand 40 years on!! |
I remember Matthews playing at Town, not sure if it was the same match, or not. Anyway, I very frequently used to pore over the only Topical Times football annual I ever owned, in which was a cartoon. It pictured a winger loafing about by the touchline, and saying to a team-mate, "I hate these friendlies; too much standing about on wet grass." It perfectly exemplified the long-past-his-best Sir Stanley, when I eventually got to see him at P.R. |  |
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Any of you lot remember this on 15:40 - Jul 18 with 705 views | cressi |
Any of you lot remember this on 15:23 - Jul 18 by monty_radio | I remember Matthews playing at Town, not sure if it was the same match, or not. Anyway, I very frequently used to pore over the only Topical Times football annual I ever owned, in which was a cartoon. It pictured a winger loafing about by the touchline, and saying to a team-mate, "I hate these friendlies; too much standing about on wet grass." It perfectly exemplified the long-past-his-best Sir Stanley, when I eventually got to see him at P.R. |
Always stood nr wall nr pitch or sat on rails under score board started going in 1971. |  | |  |
Any of you lot remember this on 21:42 - Jul 18 with 365 views | flykickingbybgunn | What is not clear from the photo is that the wall next to the pitch was about 4-5 foot high. So as a youngster you had to stand on a box to see over it. I remember it all well. My first game Dad took me to the front and gave me an apple crate to stand on, a programme to read and a bottle of Vimto. (Other bottles were not available). I was left at the front, standing on my crate at about 1.00. Dad and Uncle Paul went for several pints and rejoined me at about 2.30. Cant remember the score. I remember peeing against a bit of corragated at half time. As you did. |  | |  |
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