|
|
Post by wakefieldstokie on Jun 19, 2008 12:28:20 GMT
Does anyone remember the black fella's name who sold programes in the Butler Street Paddock?
|
|
|
|
Post by eriksson74 on Jun 19, 2008 12:50:25 GMT
Garth Crooks ;D
You mean the feller that came round with the scratchcards?
|
|
|
|
Post by diaoshairyballs on Jun 19, 2008 12:51:32 GMT
this is the MOST racist thread ive ever seen.
ADMIN GET IT BANNED PLEASE.
|
|
|
|
Post by wakefieldstokie on Jun 19, 2008 12:57:06 GMT
Eh, the irony is lost on me.
Pour quoi?
|
|
|
|
Post by kevkj on Jun 19, 2008 13:16:51 GMT
Big Gus and he sold lottery type tickets
|
|
|
|
Post by Scanner on Jun 19, 2008 13:23:08 GMT
this is the MOST racist thread ive ever seen. ADMIN GET IT BANNED PLEASE. Hahahahaha fuckin brilliant ;D ;D ;D ;D i hope he is joking  |
|
|
|
Post by mark71 on Jun 19, 2008 13:29:35 GMT
I thought it was Noel Blakes dad. ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by Not_Nick_H on Jun 19, 2008 13:39:46 GMT
Big Gus and he sold lottery type tickets My God that brings the memories flooding back! I don't think I even knew the guy's name until now - he was just "that black chap who wore the cap with ear-muffs even in May!". Oh and you couldn't make out a word he said. Whatever happened to Big Gus? |
|
|
|
Post by eriksson74 on Jun 19, 2008 13:51:19 GMT
it was something like "want to buy a card for 25 pence ......." I was told its Garths dad if it was he certainley doesn't sound like Poterb Garth now !
|
|
|
|
Post by wakefieldstokie on Jun 19, 2008 13:55:55 GMT
That was one of the things I was discussing with a mate. He always chatted but I could never understand what he was saying.  ah memories.  |
|
|
|
Post by glouscesterstokie on Jun 19, 2008 14:18:14 GMT
think his name was mama and his second name began with an S
|
|
|
|
Post by barndoorbanjo on Jun 19, 2008 15:17:32 GMT
Big Gus and he sold lottery type tickets My God that brings the memories flooding back! I don't think I even knew the guy's name until now - he was just "that black chap who wore the cap with ear-muffs even in May!". Oh and you couldn't make out a word he said. Whatever happened to Big Gus? I was thinking the same. Didn't know the guys name he was just 'that black fella'. Memories hey! |
|
|
|
Post by YarnfieldStokie on Jun 19, 2008 16:08:41 GMT
On a similar theme. does anyone remember "Rolf"?
He used to stand by the tunnel in the Boothen Paddock and was the spiiting image of Rolf Harris. Hence the original nickname!! ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by YarnfieldStokie on Jun 19, 2008 21:23:15 GMT
Just me with Rolf then?? ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by stokeoptimist on Jun 19, 2008 21:51:06 GMT
The liitle chap with the flat cap that stood in the paddock chain smoking Cigars that were bigger than him.
Oh and the woman who always tied her handbag to the fencing (when it was up)
|
|
|
|
Post by sonofbanks on Jun 20, 2008 9:08:30 GMT
Was just thinking about the chain smoker the other day...how many cigars did he get through in a match? one would be 3/4 gone and he would light up another and have two on the go  and gus' ear muffs ;D ;D |
|
|
|
Post by TheBra1n on Jun 20, 2008 9:22:53 GMT
i remember the old fella with the cigar, i even remeber him collapsing in a heap and nealry pulling me off my bear crate that i was stood on to see over the wall, i thought he was dead at the time and i can still see the adults around me lifting him over the bloody great fence so the saint johns could take him away. he was the first dead bloke i had ever seen, until i saw him standing there at the next home game, my old fella told me later that it was cus he was pi$$ed lol
i did see him once or twice in the seddon but not for a long while
|
|
|
|
Post by wherty on Jun 20, 2008 14:33:31 GMT
Big Gus now works for Goldrange security and was at the last few Stoke games at the Brit towards the end of last season...The guy must be over 70 nearly, spoke to him briefly at the Bristol City game...well he spoke and i nodded my head as if i knew what he was on about.
Whert
|
|
|
|
Post by Cassius Clayhead on Jun 20, 2008 14:53:50 GMT
Good Old Gus- Did he have any ears?????
Whert- Pisser ;D ;D ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by wizzardofdribble on Jun 20, 2008 17:36:40 GMT
He didn't have any ears, he sold them
And he isn't Crooksys' Dad either
|
|
|
|
Post by SneydGreenStokie on Jun 20, 2008 20:06:16 GMT
Does anyone remember the black fella's name who sold programes in the Butler Street Paddock? Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. That is a class motto ;D ;D ;D SGS |
|
|
|
Post by hiyadad on Jun 20, 2008 20:37:38 GMT
its strange how simple little threads like this can take you back to younger days.i remember another bloke who use to sell golden goal tickets in the bulter st paddock, then cross over into the boothen.
chunky little bloke,about 40,(at the time)short hair,dark blondey colour i think.always use to have a pile of tickets in his hand. i'm talking 1970's here.
|
|
|
|
Post by leeklad on Jun 20, 2008 21:08:16 GMT
who was that guy in the boothen end swingin a crash helmet around attached to his braces against derby?
|
|
BB stinger
Spectator
red and white=allright
Posts: 2
|
Post by BB stinger on Jun 20, 2008 21:53:42 GMT
Big Gus used to sell tickets in the Windmill Meir heath for Meir heath cricket club I believe
|
|
|
|
Post by Cityfullergoals on Jun 20, 2008 22:15:48 GMT
I remember a guy in the early 70s who always stood in the Boothen
He was about 70-75 then, and when we signed Geoff Hurst he quickly became his God
All you heard all the game was Hurst, Hurst Hurst
He will be long gone now, but I can see him just like it was yesterday
|
|
|
|
Post by trebor63 on Jun 21, 2008 10:30:18 GMT
I can vaguely remember a black guy who always had ear muffs on but never spoke to him. There was another black lad who stood in the middle of the Boothen with his multi coloured hair do. The fans used to call him rainbow.
Not sure if he changed his hair style or stopped going but 'Rainbow give us a wave' was sung quite often.
|
|
|
|
Post by somersetstokie on Jun 21, 2008 15:42:55 GMT
Veering away slightly, but on the memory theme, I was vaguely thinking some games back about the way the sights and sounds at the match change over the years. I miss the night games at the Vic, when people used to smoke inside the stadium (mainly through nerves). There was a continual flash of cigarette lighters around the ground in the dark, providing a visual backdrop to the match. I expect every one had their own story attached to them!
It strangely brought the people in the crowd to life as physical entities.
Strange what you remember and what you miss.
Dammed Philosophy degree.
|
|
|
|
Post by frasier37 on Jun 21, 2008 15:56:02 GMT
Was this him? Also known as BBM  |
|
|
|
Post by hiyadad on Jun 21, 2008 21:57:30 GMT
on a similar theme as you somerset, when ever i smell cigars i always think of my first match i ever went to.
stoke v spurs.73/4 i think.
walking into the ground,it was the smell of cigars that first hit me. and it was a spurs fan who hit me secondly!
i was just walking to my brothers car,which was parked in that side street opposite the sorting office in stoke.4 of them jumped out of a little moggy 1100,kicked the shit out of us.
time i finishished braggin at school the followng monday,it was me who smacked them.
|
|
|
|
Post by southweststokie on Jun 22, 2008 7:49:18 GMT
On a memory lane vein, one thing that will be with me until I pop clogs, is the noise that consistently came out of the boothen, when stoke got a corner at that end. Everyones timing was perfect, as the clap started...neh, neh, nehneh neh, neh neh neh CITY !. Awesome to be part of that, but also, stood in the paddock a few times, and the sound was deafening. Must have been pretty intimidiating to the opposition, and was part of the mix that made the Vic a scary place for the likes of Man Yoo, Liverpool etc.
We just don't quite cut that sort of noise at the Brit.
Gotta look forward now, and aim at bringing that sort of unison back to the Brit.
SWS
|
|
ah memories. 
