Ready for the new season

cmg · September 11, 2020, 12:19:18 PM

After an enormous overtime effort, the new Riverside Stand has been completed ahead of schedule for the start of the new season.
Slight changes in the original plans have delivered a popular 'Retro'-look.
A tanker load of Bovril can be seen coming up the Thames.
Management are debating whether to invest in a full set of PL flags for the new season.

Fernhurst · September 11, 2020, 12:48:56 PM

Ahhhh, that's a lovely pic.
Wonderful memories of my youth.

Mince n Tatties · September 11, 2020, 12:52:32 PM

Super pic.😀

rebel · September 11, 2020, 12:59:41 PM

Quote from: Fernhurst on September 11, 2020, 12:48:56 PM
Ahhhh, that's a lovely pic.
Wonderful memories of my youth.

Do you remember the last ice age? was it cold?

SP · September 11, 2020, 01:09:42 PM

Although I'm a Riversider, I prefere this, what a way to watch FFC.

Cambridge Pete · September 11, 2020, 01:40:08 PM

Thanks for the photo. Evocative of the old days. Some great memories, Leggat's hat trick against Ipswich on tat far off Boxing Day. When he scored his second I was shouting now a hat trick until an "elderly gentleeman" standing behind me informed me that he had just got it and I missed his second as I was still celebrating his first. Oops

gang · September 11, 2020, 01:43:17 PM

Nostalgia, brilliant memories, used to stand at the point the photo ends on the right.

JimOG · September 11, 2020, 01:52:00 PM

Quote from: Cambridge Pete on September 11, 2020, 01:40:08 PM
Thanks for the photo. Evocative of the old days. Some great memories, Leggat's hat trick against Ipswich on tat far off Boxing Day. When he scored his second I was shouting now a hat trick until an "elderly gentleeman" standing behind me informed me that he had just got it and I missed his second as I was still celebrating his first. Oops

As it curled over Roy Bailey's head into the top corner....10-1 mind you we lost 2-4 48 hours later...Fulhamish...wouldn't have it any other way

bog · September 11, 2020, 01:54:36 PM

Great memories stirred. Whatever happened to those Bovril signs?

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filham · September 11, 2020, 02:05:43 PM

Memories come flooding back.
Always a problem in those days whether or not to change from Putney to Hammy end at half time in order to be closer to the goals we may score.

cmg · September 11, 2020, 02:23:32 PM

On the subject of flags, an idle thought entered my head:
If we kept the old ones, how many new ones would we have to buy?

I was quite surprised at the answer. (NB there are 2 fewer teams in the PL than there were in Div 1 1968).

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