The REAL Great Escape

[LillieBoy]

I seem to remember a few 'great escapes' in those years - but that was by far the most spectacular.

Football was a lot different then - far less pressurised, no Sky, no media interest other than the back pages, no players as celebs, the working-class man's main leisure pursuit.

Fulham would go on a losing run, where we always seemed to lose  0-1 at home in my memory, then it seemed as the team thought 'we'd better do something' and  turn the season round completely...that is, until we eventually failed to turn it round!

And if I remember right it was 6d for boys!  That's two and a half pence!!  But no women's prices at the turnstiles - just "Men" and "Boys". 

And half an hour after the full-time whistle the results were on the newsstands printed in the Evening News!  [I still find that utterly impossible nearly 50 years later].

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Progress, what progress?