Pilgrims' Patter
The Forum => The B-Ark => Topic started by: beefpilgrim on July 12, 2013, 09:32:54 AM
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As the board is oh soooo quite at the moment, I thought it may need livening up..
How long have you all been watching the mighty Pilgrims?
I have been going for 28 years, I believe my first game was Kettering at home... then I was hooked.
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My first game was 1946! Been a supporter (plus Leeds United, who I can just remember seeing play Everton in a War League game in 1944) ever since!
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Such players as Dusty Miller, Jeff Snade, Andy Graver. the Hazeldene brothers etc. are among my early memories as a young fan, when gates were around 4-5000 a game in the old Midland League, and our main competition was from Peterborough!
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first game i remember was Wembley 1985 aged 7.
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Actually doc you were at the altricham semi also, but wouldnt sit still
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that is true- the golf ball incident
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that is true- the golf ball incident
At the Alty semi?
Absolutely!!!
I was behind that goal, it was chaos with Coppers helmets flying like confetti and kids being ejected left right and centre.......I saw at least half a dozen carried/dragged down the old tunnel!!
Happy days...... ;)
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that is true- the golf ball incident
At the Alty semi?
Absolutely!!!
I was behind that goal, it was chaos with Coppers helmets flying like confetti and kids being ejected left right and centre.......I saw at least half a dozen carried/dragged down the old tunnel!!
Happy days...... ;)
I was too young to remember but I do remember some blokes scrapping on the pitch in the corner...... I think thats what I saw anyway. Am I right?
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1982 ish - Crewe in the FA Cup I think.
DL
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1982 ish - Crewe in the FA Cup I think.
DL
Seem to recall Cookie scoring in that game.
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First game i was 4. that was 27 years ago and i seem to think it was a boxing day game against kettering
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that is true- the golf ball incident
At the Alty semi?
Absolutely!!!
I was behind that goal, it was chaos with Coppers helmets flying like confetti and kids being ejected left right and centre.......I saw at least half a dozen carried/dragged down the old tunnel!!
Happy days...... ;)
I was too young to remember but I do remember some blokes scrapping on the pitch in the corner...... I think thats what I saw anyway. Am I right?
Probably......... I remember one kid grew about 8" stood on a coppers helmet while the Old Bill were looking all over for it! I remember Bob Lee's winner being stood in the corner of Spayne Lane, just about the maddest goal celebration I've ever been involved in, and I count Sheffield Derbies in that as well as a Cup Final.
Loads of action and nawtiness all over that day......not quite as bad as the Sheff Utd game but close.
The town's finest came out to play!
Happy days, and days we'll never see again the way society and football have gone.
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First game aged 6,now aged 51.... I didn't miss a home game for 30 years and then missed midweek game v Scarborough as I was in hospital....
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Can't remember the game, but spent it swinging from the crush barriers behind the goal at the York Street end aged 3 or 4, and I remember being given 2p by my Dad to go to buy a bag of Smiths Twists, a crisp like concoction from the early 70's.
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My first game was 1946! Been a supporter (plus Leeds United, who I can just remember seeing play Everton in a War League game in 1944) ever since!
It was about that time I started . Some early players I remember include Charlie Croft, Jimmy Ithel and Freddie Kurz.
P S . What make of zimmer frame can you recommend O P.
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My first game was 1946! Been a supporter (plus Leeds United, who I can just remember seeing play Everton in a War League game in 1944) ever since!
It was about that time I started . Some early players I remember include Charlie Croft, Jimmy Ithel and Freddie Kurz.
P S . What make of zimmer frame can you recommend O P.
GHM can you give me the year for me?
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Eh am but a wee nipper with only 20 yr service.
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First game was in January 1992 I think... I was 5.
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First game aged 6,now aged 51.... I didn't miss a home game for 30 years and then missed midweek game v Scarborough as I was in hospital....
30 years without missing a home game is impressive!
I saw 229 of the 230 league matches we played as a Football League club and have always wondered if there's anyone out there who completed the whole set? The one I missed was an away game at Hull, when I was at a wedding. I managed to listen to a few minutes commentary whilst driving between the church and the reception. During that time the commentary stated at least four times that Boston were down to ten men, but each time failed to mention who had been sent off! The game had long since finished before I found out it was Matt Hocking and that Boston had lost 2-1. Hull were promoted that season, and I haven't yet been to the KC Stadium.
I missed about five games in a row through ill health in 2009-10. One of the games I missed was the 10-0 win over Durham, which is the biggest win we've ever had during all the time I've supported the club. Perfect timing!
I think the first game I can remember is a 4-0 FA Cup defeat against Rotherham in 1980.
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My first game was 1946! Been a supporter (plus Leeds United, who I can just remember seeing play Everton in a War League game in 1944) ever since!
It was about that time I started . Some early players I remember include Charlie Croft, Jimmy Ithel and Freddie Kurz.
P S . What make of zimmer frame can you recommend O P.
Ain't got to that stage yet, GHM! Fond memories of Jock Bayne, Albert Wilson, Sid Ellis and many others from the early era
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Leicester, that's impressive. Does the other half mind ????
DL
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I saw 229 of the 230 league matches we played as a Football League club and have always wondered if there's anyone out there who completed the whole set? The one I missed was an away game at Hull, when I was at a wedding. I managed to listen to a few minutes commentary whilst driving between the church and the reception. During that time the commentary stated at least four times that Boston were down to ten men, but each time failed to mention who had been sent off! The game had long since finished before I found out it was Matt Hocking and that Boston had lost 2-1. Hull were promoted that season, and I haven't yet been to the KC Stadium.
That is extremely impressive LP. Brilliant stuff!!
My first game was the 1967 FA Cup tie v Leyton Orient (a 1-1 draw and a 1 -2 defeat in the replay) when I was 9 and I think my first away game would have been a 4-0 win at Spalding in the FA Cup around 1968/69. I do remember my first few away games were all either FA Cup or FA Trophy games, taken by my grandfather to places like Boston FC, King's Lynn, Kettering and Frickley.
I moved from Boston to live here in Greater Manchester when I was 20 in January 1979 and that season of 1979/80 was my highest attendance - missing just one of the 65 or so games United played that season. The one I missed was a rearranged Wednesday night home game.
Nowadays I do the majority of Saturday home games and a few of the away games. Last season two of my away games were the 2-1 defeat at Skelmersdale and that infamous 7-1 thrashing at Alty. I went that night thinking it was bound to be better than the 6-1 defeat I'd endured the previous season!! New season, new optimism though - and on 17 August I will travel to Stockport on the First Bus No 22 bus service which runs from Bolton - Stockport. not sure the exact amount of away grounds I've seen United play at - but I remember the last count was 112 and I've done some 'new' ones since then.
I was at the KC Stadium for that match you missed LP - and visited again maybe a year or so later to see Hull take on the other Pilgrims, Plymouth Argyle. Both times I went with a friend of mine who is a Plymouth Argyle fan.
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derby county away 1974 3rd round F A Cup my dad only took me so he could keep an eye on my older brothers . :)
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derby county away 1974 3rd round F A Cup my dad only took me so he could keep an eye on my older brothers . :)
Dad had his hands full then mate........ ;) ;D ;D
I can remember Old Pat coming round with Michael one Sunday in the 70's and Michael got on about going away to watch Boston at some outpost like Matlock or Buxton.......when he'd gone I asked Dad if I could go with him to a game.
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