Not much room in the West Stand for the Birmingham game. https://www.google.com/search?q=sou...biw=412&bih=726&dpr=2.63#imgrc=wWqMfnM_5AvbIMFor Manchester City it was heavy rain throughout. Although a sell out there was plenty of room where I stood, bottom corner West Stand. Incidentally Bert Trautmen, one of the worlds great goalkeepers, said in his book, this was his finest game.
Reckless to the extreme, or spent 15 years juggling all the debtors and playing hmrc like a violin.
From what i can see ron is the master of robbing peter to pay paul.
blimey it was pretty packed in there with the 32k-odd that did get in, not sure where another 3k would have squeezed in..
If I remember correct the Scousers returned several thousand tickets when the Saturday game was called off. They were due to have the whole of the north bank. We ended up with a gap in the middle and Southend fans had one side with some of the returned tickets. I seem to remember that that part of the ground had the most space
He has been here 22 years
I still have a complete unused South Bank ticket for the Liverpool game. It wasn't my ticket but the person that gave it to me went to the game and after a while they got let in through the exit gates rather than the turnstiles.As well as printing the programme for the game, we also printed the tickets. We delivered them on the morning they went on sale, & had to drive through many fans queuing all round the car park. As we literally crawled along to the Main Office in the company small Bedford van, alongside crowds of fans, i wondered if they'd known what we had in the back, whether some would have attempted to open the door & nick a boxful!.
I cant recall the total amount we printed, but it definitely wasn't 35,000.
He has been here 22 years
If I remember correct the Scousers returned several thousand tickets when the Saturday game was called off. They were due to have the whole of the north bank. We ended up with a gap in the middle and Southend fans had one side with some of the returned tickets. I seem to remember that that part of the ground had the most space
Yes,the paddock(east side) too — I don’t recall people jolting the stool I always had to stand on to see over the wall.For Manchester City it was heavy rain throughout. Although a sell out there was plenty of room where I stood, bottom corner West Stand. Incidentally Bert Trautmen, one of the worlds great goalkeepers, said in his book, this was his finest game.
I was right behind the goal in the North stand leaning on the wall. I can still see his saves diving in all that mud.Yes,the paddock(east side) too — I don’t recall people jolting the stool I always had to stand on to see over the wall.
And yes,nobody who was there could ever forget Bernt Trautmann’s performance—it was even better than Paul Smith’s at Brentford !
Anyone got Ron's e-mail address? I might drop him a line today
Perhaps it was due to Trautmann's great performance the year earlier, that, IIRC, the billboards of a national paper around match day (was it the Evening News or The Star?), concentrated on Gil Merrick's views on the coming Birmingham City Cup clash with Southend United?For Manchester City it was heavy rain throughout. Although a sell out there was plenty of room where I stood, bottom corner West Stand. Incidentally Bert Trautmen, one of the worlds great goalkeepers, said in his book, this was his finest game.
In my head now it's going to be Le Corbusier's utopia. Modernist 'towers in the park' a la unite d'habitation providing generously appointed social housing, blending effortlessly into a state of the art stadium, with one side banked by a forest area that as well as offering first-class views of the action for squirrels, provides opportunities for wholesome outdoor activities for a new breed of curious working-class children. Nature, society and modern architecture in harmony.
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And yes,nobody who was there could ever forget Bernt Trautmann’s performance—it was even better than Paul Smith’s at Brentford !
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Yes,the paddock(east side) too — I don’t recall people jolting the stool I always had to stand on to see over the wall.
And yes,nobody who was there could ever forget Bernt Trautmann’s performance—it was even better than Paul Smith’s at Brentford !
Yep—misspelt by me-his actual name : Bernd: is pronounced bearnt and is of course Bernard in English, not Bert,which is short for Albert—Albrecht in German.Yep, he was on fire that day.
In the literally thousands of matches I have seen, it's hard to recall a better performance than Paul Smith's at Brentford. Trevor Roberts ran him close at, I think, Exeter one year.
It is Monday must be in the Cricketers...Yep—misspelt by me-his actual name : Bernd: is pronounced bearnt and is of course Bernard in English, not Bert,which is short for Albert—Albrecht in German.
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