The Premier league fixtures are out today and Fulham are in them!!!Ā After the 1-0 at Sunderland who would have thought that? 049:gif
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Oh Captain sir..... I'm feeling both very excited and fearful.
No dicing with top 6 ,,,,,,, avoidance of relegation is our aim and just like others we need to improve our squad each season, while our owner improves the fabric of the ground.
Buckle up, its gonna be exciting...
Sorry to spoil your party Bog,but it was all a dream.
We were actually relegated, we're away to Rochdale first game..ššššš
I am buckling as you speak! Exciting times like 1959 and 2001.Ā :clap_hands: 049:gif
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Loved 59 Bog, led to a 6 year stay which I enjoyed immensely.
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on June 14, 2018, 05:04:50 PM
Sorry to spoil your party Bog,but it was all a dream.
We were actually relegated, we're away to Rochdale first game..ššššš
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Quote from: Fernhurst on June 15, 2018, 08:20:36 PM
Loved 59 Bog, led to a 6 year stay which I enjoyed immensely.
Me to Fernhurst. We nearly went top of the league early on in 1959. Beat the champions midweek 3-1 at the Cottage then lost a week later 0-9 at Molyneux....I see the players we signed pre-season back then showed much burning ambition....Alf Stokes from Spuds and Reg Stratton from Woking.....but they were good times were they not.
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That 9-0 defeat at Wolves continues to be a catastrophe in my childhood. My two best mates were Wolves fans (glory hunters 59 style). School nights meant early nights in those days but couldn't sleep and when I heard Dad upstairs I shouted "how are we getting on" and he answered "you don't want to know Son" but he eventually told me we were 7-0 down at HT!!
That walk to school the following morning was wretched.
Quote from: Fernhurst on June 16, 2018, 03:40:57 PM
That 9-0 defeat at Wolves continues to be a catastrophe in my childhood. My two best mates were Wolves fans (glory hunters 59 style). School nights meant early nights in those days but couldn't sleep and when I heard Dad upstairs I shouted "how are we getting on" and he answered "you don't want to know Son" but he eventually told me we were 7-0 down at HT!!
That walk to school the following morning was wretched.
I recall watching Sportsnight when they read out the result! My introduction to real pain! 59 years ago and it still seems like last week!!!
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59 years, my goodness Captain that brings it home.
Think we need our own MB Captain, not sure the youngsters (65 and downwards) can relate to our old time musings.
Sounds most appropriate!
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My painful memory is the League Cup game at the Scouser's can't bring myself to write the score!!
Quote from: Fernhurst on June 16, 2018, 04:30:51 PM
59 years, my goodness Captain that brings it home.
Think we need our own MB Captain, not sure the youngsters (65 and downwards) can relate to our old time musings.
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Don't worry HD wouldnt dream of leaving you behind.
Can any of our senior members remember that news paper seller who took up position in Stevenage Road around quarter to five..... note to younger members: half times breaks were 10 mins and no added time - normally.
He used to shout in a very cockney accent a sentence that sounded like one word.
HALFTIMERESULTSFOURTHIRTYWINNER ..... how did they do that?
Quote from: Stevieboy on June 16, 2018, 05:11:20 PM
My painful memory is the League Cup game at the Scouser's can't bring myself to write the score!!
IĀ was watching News at Ten and they were reading out the results that painful night, when they got to ours the announcer said...'The next result is not a Rugby result....'Ā :doh:
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With all us old sod's musings I wish I had asked more of my long gone father and his deepest memories. He stared going down in the 1920's. Wish he had have kept the programmes, not for financial gain, just to read through.
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Quote from: Fernhurst on June 16, 2018, 06:30:42 PM
Don't worry HD wouldnt dream of leaving you behind.
Can any of our senior members remember that news paper seller who took up position in Stevenage Road around quarter to five..... note to younger members: half times breaks were 10 mins and no added time - normally.
He used to shout in a very cockney accent a sentence that sounded like one word.
HALFTIMERESULTSFOURTHIRTYWINNER ..... how did they do that?
I don't recall that one, but I do the Evening News being a different colour on a Saturday night.
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Quote from: Fernhurst on June 16, 2018, 06:30:42 PM
Don't worry HD wouldnt dream of leaving you behind.
Can any of our senior members remember that news paper seller who took up position in Stevenage Road around quarter to five..... note to younger members: half times breaks were 10 mins and no added time - normally.
He used to shout in a very cockney accent a sentence that sounded like one word.
HALFTIMERESULTSFOURTHIRTYWINNER ..... how did they do that?
I think it was somebody called Piers Morgan, I heard he became a director of an obscure commie rag, and then got the tin tack for some extraordinary reason.Ā
It was the Pink un on Saturday night.
The halftime results and four thirty winner was in a column on the front page marked "stop press"
Could not have come from Fleet Street must have been added by a local Fulham/Putney printer.
Fascinated me then and still does.
Boring old fart and proud member of "The White Wall"
Quote from: Fernhurst on June 16, 2018, 08:36:53 PM
It was the Pink un on Saturday night.
The halftime results and four thirty winner was in a column on the front page marked "stop press"
Could not have come from Fleet Street must have been added by a local Fulham/Putney printer.
Fascinated me then and still does.
Boring old fart and proud member of "The White Wall"
And me also Fernhurst, mind you I am an old fart who don't smell that much....i hope....
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"Neenin Standud?"
Still can't quite believe that we have made it & are back
Johnny H must be smiling down on us!
Hands on hips & a scowl @ anyone who doesn't collect his pin point pass & score from of course!
By the time we got back to Wimbledon station we could buy a Classie with all the results in it and, unless there had been some late drama, a half-way decent report of the match we had just watched.
Of course this didn't apply in the winter until 1962, because until we got floodlights we had to kick-off at 2.15.
Two seasons in the top tier without floodlights!
Until 1960 London could offer 3 evening papers, all of whom pubished a Saturday classified.
'STARNEWSTANDARD!!' was the cry of the newspaper sellers.
Quote from: AnotherVicHalomLoveChild on June 16, 2018, 09:29:57 PM
"Neenin Standud?"
Still can't quite believe that we have made it & are back
Johnny H must be smiling down on us!
Hands on hips & a scowl @ anyone who doesn't collect his pin point pass & score from of course!
Checked the statue after the Derby match.Ā Looks quietly pleased but was certainly not overdoing it.
Yes, 1959 and 2001 promotions to the top league were great and so was our first step up out of the 2nd division in 1949 .
We had a team of great players but the clinching factor must have been the December signing of Arthur Rowley, a big heavy centre forward who packed one hell of a shot. Arthur scored some 19 goals for us in the second half of that promotion season.
We have waited a long time for Mitrovic to come along and repeat what Artur did all those years ago.
