How does your 'football memory' work?

[durhampie]

Ian Scanlon scoring from a Steve Carter cross against Leeds United in the 1975 3rd round of the League cup at Elland Road...

[cher1]

Ian Scanlon scoring from a Steve Carter cross against Leeds United in the 1975 3rd round of the League cup at Elland Road...

Can you see that in your head Durham? Like a replay? Wish I had that sort of memory.

Slack - your story about Danny Allsop made me laugh. We were at that game too, and congratulated him as he came off for scoring however many goals I thought it was (maybe I said 5?). He was dead indignant and said no that wasn't right, he'd scored one more than whatever I'd said. Maybe he'd had a beer by the time he told you he didn't know how many he'd scored!

Don't half miss the pre season tours, they don't seem to be a thing any more.

[upthemaggies]

I had a job briefly working in a place where they played a radio station over the PA all hours and the highlight of everybody's day was the "guess the year" game when they'd play three songs from one particular year. I completely ruined it because I got it right every single time without fail including years before I was born, very rarely needing to hear more than the first few bars of the first song. They must have been mighty relieved when I quit.

There was a time when I could have rattled off the result of every Notts game I attended in the correct order (I could probably still do that for the first two or three seasons), but from around 1995 I haven't retained much information about anything, largely as a result of two or three years of very heavy substance abuse.

I would almost always make the association between something odd happening and the fixture and result, for example an opposition player desperately clambering into an empty upper section of the old main stand in the dying minutes of the game to retrieve the ball and then taking the throw himself only for the player he threw it at to miss-kick it straight back to where he'd fetched it from - Birmingham City home 1993/94 season won 2-1.... or the old guy who stood behind us absolutely raging like his life depended on it at the linesman to change the orange ball to a white one in the fog - Bristol City home 1986/87 season won 2-0.

[durhampie]

Can you see that in your head Durham? Like a replay? Wish I had that sort of memory.

Slack - your story about Danny Allsop made me laugh. We were at that game too, and congratulated him as he came off for scoring however many goals I thought it was (maybe I said 5?). He was dead indignant and said no that wasn't right, he'd scored one more than whatever I'd said. Maybe he'd had a beer by the time he told you he didn't know how many he'd scored!

Don't half miss the pre season tours, they don't seem to be a thing any more.

I also remember the van that we went in breaking down on the way back...