What was your favourite end before the stadium was turned into a concrete mausoleum
I started off in the Gallowgate End in the late 50’s, then the Leazes End and ended up in the Popular End
Loved the old Leazes End though
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What was your favourite end before the stadium was turned into a concrete mausoleum
I started off in the Gallowgate End in the late 50’s, then the Leazes End and ended up in the Popular End
Loved the old Leazes End though
Started off in Centre Paddock in old West Stand, moved to Leazes then Gallowgate. In 1978 got my first season ticket in West Stand (for the extortionate price of £12) Did not really like the seats so used to sell my season ticket and pay to get in the scoreboard or corner for a few years. Swapped seats for ST in East Stand. Stayed there until I packed it all in a few years ago.
Out of all that I pick the corner (may be cos thats where I saw Beardsley Waddle Keegan et al ) Happy days most of them. Even when we were pure shyte we always had hope and passion
Allways was the Gallowgate for me from my first game in short pants in 1946 until I moved away from the area in 1964.
When I've returned, usually with one or both of my sons we have treated ourselves to a seat in the Milburn Stand.
For me as a youngster it was always the Leazes End with my mates, although my first-ever match when my uncle took me it was in the Paddock - passed over the heads to sit on the "running track".
I just loved the pre-match atmosphere in the Leazes. No need for somebody screaming over the tannoy to whip up the singing and chanting.
Tanner-a-bag for peanuts, massive queue at the Boys' Gate, no roof on the netty, Football Pink for the results.
Sorry - just went into full Ron Manager mode!
Nowadays whenever I can get home, given my advancing years, I treat myself to the Milburn.
That took me back too being passed down to the front by the blokes. You had to stay stiff rigid until you got down to the front. Aye and the lad with the peanuts. He must have been a fantastic cricket fielder. He could hurl a bag of peanuts so accurately, hardly ever missed. XD
First ever game was in the wooden West Stand. Thereafter always in the Gallowgate - few years in the scoreboard and then the corner till I moved away.