Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset
Director⭐⭐
Dear Uncle Ron,
I would like to know the answer to the above question please. I am not flush with dosh but do have the space. Having spent a considerable part of the last 37 years in the West Stand I think it would be a shame for it just to be smacked to bits.
If it could be taken down piecemeal and transported to Suffolk at reasonable cost I would definitely consider it. As long as the leaky tap in the gents behind the RBS could be fixed. Oh, and I would want the deal to include the ladder and TV gantry.
You can keep the seats - they never looked right anyway.
I can just hear Mrs Suffolk Shrimper (having not been brave enough to tell her of my plans until the stuff starts coming down the drive): 'What the **** have you gone and bought now'. 'Sorry dear'.
I would guarantee that it then remains standing for ever. I would even deal with the lack of investment in paint in the last few years by giving it a new blue coat.
I will then invite 10,000 Southend fans over on a cold snowy January night, ask them to kindly queue up to get in via just two turnstile entrances, hand them all a paper green ticket in exchange for £2.00, lay on a few dodgy hot dog stalls, insist that people smoke or wear flares or both, put Ray Clemmence in a mocked up goal in front of the stand, and then once all are crammed in I will pretend to be Derrick Parker, run clear on goal, go round the goalie and smack the ball in to the net for Southend to beat Liverpool 1-0 like wot should of happened had the said forward not fell on his ****.:goodun:
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours expectantly,
Suffolk Shrimper
I would like to know the answer to the above question please. I am not flush with dosh but do have the space. Having spent a considerable part of the last 37 years in the West Stand I think it would be a shame for it just to be smacked to bits.
If it could be taken down piecemeal and transported to Suffolk at reasonable cost I would definitely consider it. As long as the leaky tap in the gents behind the RBS could be fixed. Oh, and I would want the deal to include the ladder and TV gantry.
You can keep the seats - they never looked right anyway.
I can just hear Mrs Suffolk Shrimper (having not been brave enough to tell her of my plans until the stuff starts coming down the drive): 'What the **** have you gone and bought now'. 'Sorry dear'.
I would guarantee that it then remains standing for ever. I would even deal with the lack of investment in paint in the last few years by giving it a new blue coat.
I will then invite 10,000 Southend fans over on a cold snowy January night, ask them to kindly queue up to get in via just two turnstile entrances, hand them all a paper green ticket in exchange for £2.00, lay on a few dodgy hot dog stalls, insist that people smoke or wear flares or both, put Ray Clemmence in a mocked up goal in front of the stand, and then once all are crammed in I will pretend to be Derrick Parker, run clear on goal, go round the goalie and smack the ball in to the net for Southend to beat Liverpool 1-0 like wot should of happened had the said forward not fell on his ****.:goodun:
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours expectantly,
Suffolk Shrimper
