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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 20:50:35 GMT
don't know how fans coped with winter weather in the old stoke end It was a different breed of fan then! Remember standing in there with snow on the terracing for a mid week cup game against Oxford .....never been so cold all the Players were wearing ladies tights ! |
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Post by harryburrows on Apr 18, 2017 21:12:19 GMT
Was that 67 if so it was my 1 st game too . Harry Greg in goal for Stoke I was definitely there behind the goal that day Harry , I used to see Bill Bently and Alan Bloor most Sunday mornings in Longton Park watching local football in those days Always used the Stoke end bish . |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 21:44:49 GMT
I was definitely there behind the goal that day Harry , I used to see Bill Bently and Alan Bloor most Sunday mornings in Longton Park watching local football in those days Always used the Stoke end bish . It was great at the start of the season on a sunny afternoon ....loved the Stoke end |
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Post by Northy on May 15, 2017 16:04:44 GMT
I was definitely there behind the goal that day Harry , I used to see Bill Bently and Alan Bloor most Sunday mornings in Longton Park watching local football in those days Always used the Stoke end bish . It's where I first started out, took my younger brother in there for his first ever match, a night match thrashing of Chelsea 6-2 in a league cup replay (after 2 legs), think we played them 4 times in a couple of weeks and it was the only one we won, the rest were draws |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 16:14:23 GMT
Always used the Stoke end bish . It's where I first started out, took my younger brother in there for his first ever match, a night match thrashing of Chelsea 6-2 in a league cup replay (after 2 legs), think we played them 4 times in a couple of weeks and it was the only one we won, the rest were draws I remember that game , think Geoff Hurst got a couple that night it would be about '74 I think ? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 21:27:49 GMT
Started supporting Stoke from Chester in 1970
My Dad took me after a load of pestering (No it`s only a passing phase !) on a Friday Night in 1971 1-1 V Blackpool Stuart Jump scored
We stood on the Stoke End and i was hooked
My Dad did a brill job of bringing me to the Vic 2/3 times a season before i could make my own way
Happy happy memories
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Post by kjpt140v on Apr 20, 2018 23:06:06 GMT
I remember getting soaked on the Old Stoke End. It was against Newcastle I think we were leading 3-1 and it ended up 3-3. Lets say I don't think the end was full by the end of the game. I was supposed to go to my cousins birthday party straight after the game in Hartshill. Ended up catching a bus back to Maybank with my dad as we were that soaked. By the time I got to my cousins the party was over. I was just a kid at the time. It was a huge end. Getting old now I prefer decent seats and reasonable toilets. I don't have nostalgia for toilets that looked and smelled like Newcastle cattle market. I was at that game, I think Newcastle were in all blue. I was 13 and stood right behind the goal in the Stoke End, an abiding memory was me and a mate laughing that we could see the opposite goal through Macdonald' legs. |
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Post by leicspotter on Apr 25, 2018 19:01:53 GMT
My first visit was also in the Stoke End, '64/'65 season v the shit (or Man Utd as we called them back then  ) Friend of the family took me from Leek and I stood at the front, which was below pitch level. My abiding memories are of just how HUGE the players looked and what a fantastic noise was all around. Stoke lost but that didn't stop me being a Stokie forever!  I was hooked, aged 8! Think I only stood there on one further occasion (new build then) - v Peterborough, when our fat loanee 'keeper did his best to stop us getting to Wembley...thank goodness for Paul "Tupper" Ware (RIP) |
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Post by bloodtypered on Jun 28, 2018 21:57:53 GMT
Remember being at front behind the goal watching pele playing for santos
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2018 20:32:06 GMT
Went there many timws, the trek up the hill then the sight of the ground from the top.
I recall having a red/white rattle, doubt if they'd let me in with one today.
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Post by raythesailor on Aug 8, 2018 13:10:52 GMT
I was a Boothen Ender. Looking down the pitch watching the Town End fill up we could gauge the size of the attendance.
When printed in The Sentinel I don’t think they always told the truth ! 😉
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Post by trenthamstokepotter on Aug 9, 2018 15:37:44 GMT
I went and stood there some 60 or so years ago. It was a Boxing Day match and I think it was against Man City but could be wrong there. Stood under the floodlights and there were 43,003 fans that day in the ground. A record which probably will never be broken. That was the start of my enduring support for The Potters
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Post by boothen74 on Jan 17, 2019 12:08:41 GMT
Used to stand on a stool behind the wall when my Dad started taking me. But I can't ever remember getting wet. Maybe the sun always shone on the Vic.
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Post by misterj on Oct 28, 2019 10:01:14 GMT
Always thought the Stoke End had a great view not being hemmed in by walls or a roof. It was for fellas who liked to, ahem, save a bob or two by paying the smaller entrance fee, nothing wrong with that of course - plenty of running battles went on behind us in the late 60’s early 70’s - we were stood near the front with my mate’s Dad’s. His response to hooligans was : “if they think they’re so hard then join a f.....ing boxing club or the Army .... that’d sort em out !” (generation gap eh ?) 😂😂
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Post by NassauDave on Mar 23, 2020 5:51:44 GMT
I remember a game in the 80's against the shit. There was about 40-50 shit fans in the boothen, during the second half they got found out and received a pasting. They were grouped together down the bottom of the boothen end by the bogs and the police had a great idea rather than take the shit fans around the pitch they would take them through the paddock. Now it didnt take a genius to work out that once the shit fans were in the paddock they wouldnt last 30 seconds, needless to say once the last shit fan entered the paddock all hell broke lose and they were torn to pieces. The paddock mob had a field day. I think thats the last time the shit came in the boothen. It was great to watch ;D That was West Ham mate 1983 Same happened to Wolves. I was in the paddock that day. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 22:04:21 GMT
That was West Ham mate 1983 Same happened to Wolves. I was in the paddock that day. I remember a Wolves fan trying to climb a fence with a police dog attached to his arse as had sunk his teeth into him. |
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Post by hyaduck on Apr 3, 2020 4:38:27 GMT
Same happened to Wolves. I was in the paddock that day. I remember a Wolves fan trying to climb a fence with a police dog attached to his arse as had sunk his teeth into him. There was chaos when WHU came through the paddock. In 82-84 it seemed to happen quite frequently, Wolves came in a couple of times with tuning battles up and down the paddock and coppers helmets on the pitch, think that was WHU. |
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Post by misterj on Apr 25, 2020 18:34:17 GMT
The away fans used to be ‘visited’ by the Boothen Enders who’d walk around with ten minutes to go when the gates opened. Used to go in the Stoke End with my mate and his Dad, we were aged about ten late 60’s. Strangely we’d cordially get along with opposition fans of a similar age, can remember getting to know some Motherwell fans (from the Anglo-Scottish Cup tie) and even Man U fans. The Stoke End was where you served your fan apprenticeship before graduating to the Boothen End and suddenly becoming less tolerant of away fans!
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Post by archstanton on May 16, 2020 21:18:33 GMT
Not entirely a Stoke end sorry but my first trip to Stoke must have been 1 Sep 84 Vs Sheff Wed. I would have been 12. I don't really remember much of the game as I didn't see a thing from the Boothen End (I think) but I did get knocked around a lot when stoke scored in their 2-1 win.
My mum and dad used to go to watch Stoke a lot before I was born (in fact, I went to the 72 cup win because my mum was pregnant with me) but only very occasionally in the late 70s and 80s. I think they used to frequently get free tickets from Alan Philpott (who lived down the road from us) or Eric Skeels (my mum's relative) but these dried up later on.
Second game I went to, I remember Stoke losing but I can't remember who it was against. We were in the Stoke end for this one, as I recall, but didn't see anything from there, either!
Kids have it easy these days with all seaters!
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Post by pretzel on May 17, 2020 11:40:47 GMT
I went and stood there some 60 or so years ago. It was a Boxing Day match and I think it was against Man City but could be wrong there. Stood under the floodlights and there were 43,003 fans that day in the ground. A record which probably will never be broken. That was the start of my enduring support for The Potters Get ya facts right mate... it was 43'007  Attachments:
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Post by bloodtypered on Jan 3, 2022 11:37:50 GMT
Disobeyed my mum and dad when i was young... and went to a game with a mate.....nearly got away with it until they saw us both behind terry conroy taking a corner when saturdays game was on sunday tv
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Post by AlliG on Jan 5, 2022 20:15:18 GMT
Disobeyed my mum and dad when i was young... and went to a game with a mate.....nearly got away with it until they saw us both behind terry conroy taking a corner when saturdays game was on sunday tv Had a similar experience (only at The Boothen End). I used to sit on the wall by the St Johns Ambulance dugout near the corner on the Butler Street side. We were watching the match on TV on Sunday (think it might have been the 6-1 against Villa in 1966), Harry Burrows was taking a corner just in front of where I was, when I got a clout round the ear. My Mum reckoned she had seen me wiping my nose on my sleeve! I protested my innocence and told her it was just cold and I trying to warm it up but without success. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2022 18:01:18 GMT
Oh the memories of early childhood when everything was warm and cosy and the sun shone all day -especially in the long summer holidays off school. And football was football, proper football of course and all grounds were great and full every week and had character. |
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I was hooked, aged 8!
