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Post by pottersrule on Feb 9, 2011 21:12:40 GMT
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. Christ man up Sosarge.
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Post by onlyonesirstan on Feb 9, 2011 21:25:57 GMT
If there is one place that I would like my ashes to be scattered, it would be the site of the old Victoria Ground. Preferably over the Boothen End.
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Post by woodin43 on Feb 9, 2011 21:32:56 GMT
I hate smoking, but that was the best smell in the world and I can still recall it now and its as if I'm walking up the steps into the Boothen End.
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Post by nott1 on Feb 9, 2011 23:09:04 GMT
Roy Vernon our inside forward smoking in the shower! It's true, he did! ;D
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Post by henryshand on Feb 10, 2011 0:12:55 GMT
Thanks everyone for sharing your memories, I had forgotten the linament smell in the Bothen Paddock and Pierre`s pipe ! Golden Memories, the Brit is good but its ferocity is borne out of the special place that was the Vic lets never forget it ! Happy Days ! ....... Now that was a coach company !
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Post by withnall on Feb 10, 2011 4:47:26 GMT
Ronnie Roaches Happy Coaches - trips to Amsterdam a speciality - and not to smoke Borkum Riff.
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 10, 2011 7:19:05 GMT
Football matches had a specific aroma in those days. The unique smell of bovril and anxiety.
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Feb 10, 2011 10:06:22 GMT
Paddling through the bogs behind the Boothen to have your half time pee in the shallow end.
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Post by sting on Feb 10, 2011 10:19:23 GMT
And a game of wee tennis with a ping pong ball!
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Post by myleftboot on Feb 10, 2011 10:26:42 GMT
Ah takes me back.
The smell of to acco and beer all mixed togethor. Doesn't matter who you were there was always a place for you in the Boothen. People from all walks of life all pissed up and cheering tbe lads on. Ome a match day.
Just does not seem the same these days. Plastic grounds, seating and prawn sandwiches etc.
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Post by lancer on Feb 10, 2011 11:37:45 GMT
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. can also remember the linesmans backs, covered in slime from all the gozz the paddock stokies had spat his way ;D That was MY fiver you little git. I wondered where that went. I nowped the missus when I got home, though she'd nicked it. Just leave it in the tocket office on next home game, and we'll forget about it, you...you tinker you!
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Post by stokecity1863 on Feb 10, 2011 12:44:05 GMT
i wish i was older so could have gone the vic at the age i am now, i was only 9 when we beat west brom on the last game, still great memories though sitting on the red bars shitting me self when me dad put me on his shoulders after we scored haha good old days
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Post by truckerged on Feb 10, 2011 13:23:25 GMT
ah the boothen end bogs everytime we had a biggish game they could never cope with the amount of piss being generated by thousands of stokies enjoying the traditional pre match ritual of getting some ale down yer neck. dont really know what the capacity was on the boothen but im pretty sure that for the big games there was proberly 5 thousand more than there should have been!!!!
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Feb 10, 2011 13:26:13 GMT
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 . . . . and when you went to visit your old grandad! ;D
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Post by offthewall on Feb 10, 2011 20:23:38 GMT
So sad now.
Last year i had a hour to kill between visiting dying relatives and dropped by.
The Club outside the ground, the alleys behind the terraces, outside the Vic pub I just stayed there remembering all those times, it was a special place.
When I lived in London, I would talk to opposing teams fans about it, many of them were scared stiff by the place !!!!
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 10, 2011 20:45:55 GMT
And a game of wee tennis with a ping pong ball! At last someone's found a benefit to being a bloke ;D ;D
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Post by northstandnorth on Feb 10, 2011 21:39:44 GMT
If there is one place that I would like my ashes to be scattered, it would be the site of the old Victoria Ground. Preferably over the Boothen End. I hope something good comes of the Victoria for you.my ashes would have to be scattered in the car park of Toysrus and DFS. God, I miss the Goldstone North Stand.
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Post by longtonian on Feb 10, 2011 21:41:44 GMT
I remember getting a strong whiff of Brut when Geoff Hurst walked past me outside the ground once.
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Post by sonofbanks on Feb 11, 2011 9:59:28 GMT
Don't know if it's the same guy as mentioned earlier by swampy, but there was an old feller with a flat cap who used to chain smoke big cigars by the dugout in the Boothen side paddock. While he was finishing one he had already lit another so that when he finished one, the other was ready. This went on all game, christ knows what his lungs were like
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Post by rabbigan on Feb 11, 2011 11:47:50 GMT
I remember and can still smell it. Also as you looked at the stand opposite there was a constant twinkle from people lighting up. Wonderful evenings.
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Post by ihaveadream on Feb 11, 2011 13:41:47 GMT
If there is one place that I would like my ashes to be scattered, it would be the site of the old Victoria Ground. Preferably over the Boothen End. So would I I would like We'll Be With You to be played as they are scattered
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