Most Vivid Old Memory

[filham]

I recently read Bill Bryson's latest book The Body and was interested to learn that he was a baseball fan and could recall the 1964 team line up for the team he supported, St. Lois Cardinals. Bill was looking to explain why we can have good long term memories capable of storing useless information while having very poor short term memories that fail to hold useful information. He admitted recently forgetting his mobile phone number and the third item of three that his wife had sent him to buy at the supermarket.

I can identify with both the short term memory examples but can do better with the long term memory.

I can clearly remember the Fulham line up for the 1949 team that was promoted from the second division into the top flight for the first time in our history. It was a W formation of :-
                                                                 Doug Flack
                                           Harry Freeman                 Joe Buccuzi
                                      Len Quested          Jim Taylor            Pat Beasley
                                                       Bob Thomas         Beddy Jezzard
                                    Arthur Stevens          Arthur Rowley                  Macdonald

Not absolutely sure of the Christion name of the left winger but think it was Jack. The doubt is probably because he was new to the team and had replaced a real favourite of mine, Ernie Shepherd, a lovely player who tended to hug the line and had a sweet left foot capable of putting over inch perfect crosses.

Any one else with vivid memories of their early Fulham team

[mrmicawbers]

Memory banks must get full,bit like a computer which the brain is.Forgetting items you went to the shops for is a little annoying.I make lists now but do often forget the list.

[filham]

Memory banks must get full,bit like a computer which the brain is.Forgetting items you went to the shops for is a little annoying.I make lists now but do often forget the list.
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Memory banks must get full,bit like a computer which the brain is.Forgetting items you went to the shops for is a little annoying.I make lists now but do often forget the list.

Making a note of something is always a good idea, remember:-
A blunt pencil is better than a sharp memory.

[F(f)CUK]

My first vivid memory was seeing Bobby Moore being presented with the Jules Rimet trophy just before we played Orient. We then went 6-0 up in the first half and cruised the second, winning 6-1.

[sarnian]

I recently read Bill Bryson's latest book The Body and was interested to learn that he was a baseball fan and could recall the 1964 team line up for the team he supported, St. Lois Cardinals. Bill was looking to explain why we can have good long term memories capable of storing useless information while having very poor short term memories that fail to hold useful information. He admitted recently forgetting his mobile phone number and the third item of three that his wife had sent him to buy at the supermarket.

I can identify with both the short term memory examples but can do better with the long term memory.

I can clearly remember the Fulham line up for the 1949 team that was promoted from the second division into the top flight for the first time in our history. It was a W formation of :-
                                                                 Doug Flack
                                           Harry Freeman                 Joe Buccuzi
                                      Len Quested          Jim Taylor            Pat Beasley
                                                       Bob Thomas         Beddy Jezzard
                                    Arthur Stevens          Arthur Rowley                  Macdonald

Not absolutely sure of the Christion name of the left winger but think it was Jack. The doubt is probably because he was new to the team and had replaced a real favourite of mine, Ernie Shepherd, a lovely player who tended to hug the line and had a sweet left foot capable of putting over inch perfect crosses.

Any one else with vivid memories of their early Fulham team

100% it was a Jack Macdonald who was new to the team and he was the reason although I was very young became a Fulham supporter and eventually a season ticket holder although I have never lived in the UK.

He used to come and spend the summer holidays with his son Christopher at my fathers in Guernsey  and we would go to the beach every day.

[Forever Fulham]

Sometimes I can't remember my current postal address code or my work cellphone number.   Yet I can commit to memory all kinds of new information, recent information, and I remember with great detail a lot of really old information.  Stuff we had to learn in school a million years ago that were going to be on a test.  Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, and sometimes Variety.  Whole poems.  Stuff like that.  Or that there are three types of ancient Greek columns: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian (in that order, from modest to most ornate).  So why can't I remember my damn zip code?   This has always surprised me.   Two months ago, I had to make a presentation, nothing all that formal, just a small talk to my supervisor's supervisor to explain some aspect of a recurring issue I've been working on.   I was doing just fine, got near the end of it, was wrapping up, and I couldn't remember the acronym for a standard telecommunications industry word.  I just froze there like an Alzheimer's patient.  Could not for the life of me remember the expression (it was "VoIP" for Voice over Internet Protocol phone service).  I've used that word thousands of times.  But I hit some kind of weird wall, and had to be saved by my colleague who intuited what I wanted to say.   I laughed it off:  "I'll have to own that senior moment."  And everyone at the table all spoke at once about the mundane things they forget all the time.  Still...unsettling.  I know I had been sitting still for hours before that meeting presentation, and that can have an effect on your brain working at its best.  You need to get up and get your blood circulating, and I'm at my most forgetful after  sitting still for long periods.  Not that anyone cares about my memory. But your topic struck a nerve.

[mrmicawbers]

Started a crossword the other day and completed roughly half of it and was struggling with.Went out for my daily exercise running and walking.Came back picked up the crossword and finished it off.Amazing howa bit of fresh air can blow away the cobwebs.

[Fernhurst]

Sat watching the game on FFCtv tonight and the camera swung to the directors and sitting there was no other than.... what's his name??.... You know that fellow........ DANIEL LEVY...... yes well I've remembered now!!

[jarv]

Great book, the body. I am half way through it.

Macedo, Cohen Langley, Mullery (very young) Dodgin Lowe,  Key Oconnell Cooke Haynes and Chamberlain. About 1960. (I think).

[filham]

Great book, the body. I am half way through it.

Macedo, Cohen Langley, Mullery (very young) Dodgin Lowe,  Key Oconnell Cooke Haynes and Chamberlain. About 1960. (I think).

Anyone whos early games were during the Haynes era will have good clear memories to be cherished.
Bill Dodgin had an interesting Fulham career as player and manager. When you came along I thinkhe had returned from Arsenal and was doing a good job at centre half but earlier his dad had played him out of position at right back and us fans gave him a rough time that is best forgotten.

The Body is a great work by Bill Bryson containing some interesting stories. I particularly liked the description of how Brunnel removed a coin jammed in his throat. When you have finished the book you may well think that the USA is an unhealthy nation and that Trump's next priority after curing their addiction with guns should be to change their eating habits.

[bog]

Now my short term memory is hopeless but my earliest memory is back to the very first game I went to in 1953, but have no idea of who we played. As we were getting ready to leave my father said to me 'Fulham have got a very good young player called Johnny Haynes....'


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[filham]

Now my short term memory is hopeless but my earliest memory is back to the very first game I went to in 1953, but have no idea of who we played. As we were getting ready to leave my father said to me 'Fulham have got a very good young player called Johnny Haynes....'


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And that had to be the football understatement of the twentieth century.

[Fulham 442]

February 23rd 1963 and we were at home to Nottingham Forest.  I don't remember much about the game, I was only 5, but I know we won 3 1 and coming out of the ground I waved my rosette in the air.  Unfortunately the supporter walking past me at the time was a Forest fan and didn't take kindly to the gesture.  My Dad had to point out I was only a little girl and tell him to get a grip!  I now know that from that game we went on an 8 game winning streak and secured our status in the league for the season.

[General]

My earliest memories are when I was sitting in the baby chair of my parents car. A few memories centre on me thinking ' I wonder what they're saying', but struggling to hear it properly from behind the seats and they were a lot bigger then me. I then remember one day, thinking I'd chance trying to hear what they were saying and heard them talking and felt like it had been a personal development eureka moment.

It's mind-boggling to me, to have had that clear memory and thought pattern as a baby who else-wise was clearly very very young and couldn't properly speak or hear.

Earliest Fulham memory was when the ground had been bought by Al Fayed, outside the Johnny Haynes stand, looking at the red-brick facade before one of my first games and standing in the different stands, which was the only thing you could do in those days as there were no seats. I remember the putney end and Hammersmith end stands, with the putney end, if my memory isn't playing tricks on me, not having a roof and having at the centre back of the stand for a hot food stall to buy half time snacks. Crazy to think that was the state of Fulham within my relatively short lifetime.

[bog]

Now my short term memory is hopeless but my earliest memory is back to the very first game I went to in 1953, but have no idea of who we played. As we were getting ready to leave my father said to me 'Fulham have got a very good young player called Johnny Haynes....'


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And that had to be the football understatement of the twentieth century.

It had to be. Little did we know what was on the way.

[filham]

Now my short term memory is hopeless but my earliest memory is back to the very first game I went to in 1953, but have no idea of who we played. As we were getting ready to leave my father said to me 'Fulham have got a very good young player called Johnny Haynes....'


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And that had to be the football understatement of the twentieth century.

It had to be. Little did we know what was on the way.

In the early fifties I worked with a man who played tennis at the same club as Eddie Perry a Fulham coach and was amble to keep me interested with club gossip from time to time.. I remember being told at  an early date that the club had something special in a young lad named Haynes, of course if anyone had predicted what Johnny would actually achieve they would have been laughed at.

[Forever Fulham]

Oldest game memory...of players that would be Malbranque.  Never realized at the time he was 5' 7".   I thought he was a much bigger player.  He played big.    Steeeeeeeed!

[filham]

Oldest game memory...of players that would be Malbranque.  Never realized at the time he was 5' 7".   I thought he was a much bigger player.  He played big.    Steeeeeeeed!

Yes , Steed is a good early memory to have but there were other memorable players in the team at that time who I am sure you will not forget.

[cottage expat]

Great book, the body. I am half way through it.

Macedo, Cohen Langley, Mullery (very young) Dodgin Lowe,  Key Oconnell Cooke Haynes and Chamberlain. About 1960. (I think).

Exactly same memory as me, Jarv (1960/1961)

[filham]

Great book, the body. I am half way through it.

Macedo, Cohen Langley, Mullery (very young) Dodgin Lowe,  Key Oconnell Cooke Haynes and Chamberlain. About 1960. (I think).

Exactly same memory as me, Jarv (1960/1961)

That was some team with Macedo , Cohen, Langley, Mullery and Haynes being up to international standard while Tosh has to be the most unforgettable and lovable character that any of us can remember.