Do any other middle aged stokies remember ?

[henryshand]

The unforgettable smell of tobacco and pipe smell at night games at the Vic ! Its the only thing that the Brit does not provide that atomsphere and the smell as Waddo`s wonders paraded their splendour ! I can still smell the atomsphere !!!!

[njkk]

Remember it well Sir, when I asked my dad what the smell was he said it was from Peter Dobing's Pipe that he always kept lit down his left sock

[terrorofturfmoor]

I remember it very fondly, it was every match not just night matches.......

It was the kind of smell that was all part of the atmosphere and got you buzzing as soon as you smelt it.......

Are you sure it was tabacco smoke???

[Lakeland Potter]

Tobacco smoke and the smell of the Boothen End urinals was a combination to savour. They should have bottled it and sold it in the club shop!

You got a similar smell when you opened the door of the old fashioned red telephone boxes! Happy days. ;D

[wembley4372]

Some things are best left in the past guys!

[rickyisgod]

Them were the days!! it was a smell that i will always rememeber :-)

It wasnt quite the same smell as the boothen end against the mackems on saturday ;-)

[stokietillidied]

Feb 9, 2011 8:02:19 GMT rickyisgod said:

Them were the days!! it was a smell that i will always rememeber :-)

It wasnt quite the same smell as the boothen end against the mackems on saturday ;-)

Beer pies and farts? ;d

[mistersausage]

Remember that smell well, bloody lovely. I once found a fiver tucked into a woodbine packet on the boothen end (I always loked in the discarded packets for the cards)

I bought loads of packs of airfix soldiers and bottles of pop, and my dad found me later playing in the gutter outside the house with them. I told him how I'd got them and he gave me a good hiding saying I must be lying. I didn't care, I was in boys heaven fighting every war imagineable.

I can also remember the linesmans backs, covered in slime from all the gozz the paddock stokies had spat his way ;D

[Deleted]

Boxing Day...the acrid smell of cigar smoke drifting from the terraces. I loved The Victoria Ground, nothing can compare the feeling of walking up The Boothen End steps and hearing the roar of the crowd. It was time to move though the old girl was in such a state of disrepair. Its a shame the land hasn't been utilised, they should build a park on it, something for the community.

[mistersausage]

It is truly shocking how somewhere that graced the likes of Matthews, Banks, Hudson etc can be allowed to fall into such a state.

I can't even walk past it without tears welling up in my eyes.

Absolutely disgusting. The least they should have done is levelled it, grassed it, and put some flower gardens in it so people could walk there and reflect.

Shame on Modwen and the Council.

[wrighter]

PLEASE stop bringing up The Vic !!

Oh what happy, glorious memories

[nott1]

It was me! Thank God I have now got more sense and packed it in!

[londonjamie]

I can't remember what I had for dinner tonight.

[OldStokie]

Its a different world now. One taken over by the control freaks, who try to make everyone conform to what they don't like. A sanitised world. And yet people are still, and will still be dying of cancer and the like. It makes the mind boggle to wonder what they'll blame such diseases on when nobody smokes and still people are dying of cancer. They'll probably ban nogger then because it's too stressful.

OS.

[SussexStokie]

I used to stand in the Boothen Paddock and I still remember the smell of liniment, wafting out of the changing rooms behind me.

[crowey]

Best smell in the Director's Box was dad's Villiger cigars (from Switzerland - if I remember correctly) - he used to smoke 20+ per day. Crazy stuff - never smoked anything in my life. Beer & wine - different thing

[lurcherman]

The Vic, " a brief moment in time " but boy WHAT a moment!!!!

[stokiejoe]

Add in the smell of Bovril and meat pies, shut your eyes and we will be back there.

[rockhead163]

The smell of the freezing air hitting the nostrils as you walked up from the concourse up the steps and out onto the terrace for our usual spot infront of post C on the winter matches.

[southweststokie]

God, this thread is so evocative...apparently smells will stay with you long after normal dementia has set in...! Remember the smell of tobacco smoke so vividly, and my memory is strongest for when it was really cold, and icy., breath freezing etc
Wherever you stood and watched, it was the same smell.

A trip down memory lane of odours.....

Let's not spoil the thoughts by adding in some of the other smells that would occasionally come wafting over from a seemingly innocent individual next to you

SWS

[mrstoke68]

Feb 9, 2011 1:11:23 GMT henryshand said:

The unforgettable smell of tobacco and pipe smell at night games at the Vic ! Its the only thing that the Brit does not provide that atomsphere and the smell as Waddo`s wonders paraded their splendour ! I can still smell the atomsphere !!!!

Was saying exactly the same thing on Saturday, not a smoker myself but would welcome a lifting of the smoking ban in this instance!

[march4]

Feb 9, 2011 1:11:23 GMT henryshand said:

The unforgettable smell of tobacco and pipe smell at night games at the Vic ! Its the only thing that the Brit does not provide that atomsphere and the smell as Waddo`s wonders paraded their splendour ! I can still smell the atomsphere !!!!

Marvellous memories.

[hereford]

you have stirred my memories now. As i stood in the posh bit (Boothen Paddock to the left of the halfway line) the smell of liniment used to pour out of the dressing room windows.
That certainly cleared the sinuses!!!

[johnbutlershair]

You don't have to be middle aged to remember that. The smile of tobacco, the waft of urine coming from the bogs, the smell of new aftershave every boxing day, walking to the ground tucking into a wrights pie, standing round the same blokes match after match.

What a ground that place was!

[gonk]

The Smell of the boiled onions and burgers from the dirty burgers sellers who always had a drew drop runing off there nose. Which any other time you would never think of buying from and then having one and re-eating it for thr next 2 days.

[PerCyfilth ....Captains Log]

Hang on ..I'm having a Hamlet moment.......

[mermaidsal]

Feb 9, 2011 7:13:37 GMT Lakeland Potter said:

Tobacco smoke and the smell of the Boothen End urinals was a combination to savour. They should have bottled it and sold it in the club shop!

You got a similar smell when you opened the door of the old fashioned red telephone boxes! Happy days. ;D

Never experienced the urinals ;D but I miss the smoke too, have to say. Smoke and hot dogs/burgers mixed is just gorgeous

[swampySCFC]

When i was 6 I used to love the smell of it in the Butler. I reckon a lot of fellas smoked pipes in those days.

In later years we always stood by a bloke who smoked big cigars in the Boothen Paddock.

[Staying up for Grandadstokey]

Wonderful memories , I also liked to watch the lighters/matches being lit at floodlit matches , there was never a second when there were less than 3 fags being lit.

[march4]

And, of course, the plumes of smoke rising out of the Boothen End.