How does your 'football memory' work?

[cher1]

NW6Pie you're so right about smells evoking memories. Cigarette smoke outside always makes me think about football. Add in the aroma of meat pies, embrocation and Bovril, and I'm right back in the old days.

People's memories do seem to split into those who remember moments and those with more encyclopaedic memories. No surprise that you're in the latter category UTM!

I've got another random memory of going to Notts with my dad. It was a 184 mile round trip for each home game, and this was during the oil crisis. We were stopped by the police, who questioned my dad about whether the journey was essential. My dad managed to persuade him it absolutely was, and feeling snug we thought that was the end of it. Then the copper pointed out that my dad's tax was out of date and did him for that instead... The following home game we went by train - 3 different trains each way.

[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...

[cher1]

Nobody seems to have offered any thoughts on this question and it's turned into another Meadow Lane memory thread, which is no bad thing, but at the risk of being thoroughly offensive, toxic, problematic and controversial I'll give it a go.

I've always assumed there is a difference between how male and females process memory, generally speaking, though it may be more pronounced in some cultures than others, There must have been some evolutionary pressure applied in that respect as humans moved into less stable climates and less fertile lands where you'd need to be able to make more associations (neural connections) as to how, where and when to secure food and shelter as well as avoiding danger.
Pattern recognition, organising and categorising take on a whole new level of importance.

For obvious reasons men would have been more on the front line, so to speak, than women, with men not being handicapped once a month or out of action on a more permanent basis due to dependents. So presumably there was a not insignificant shift between the two ***es as to how memory was stored as the environment in which they found themselves in drastically changed. Which is not to suggest women haven't evolved in the processing of memory, as they would have had to learn new skills to adapt also, but the emphasis in their case would have been more on the creative than practical (making clothes, creating temporary living spaces) and being more attuned to emotional needs in more turbulent situations.

So basically we have a greater male-female divide between more practical and more emotional memory out of necessity, or to put it another way a divide between practical and emotional thinking, or you could just reduce it to practical and emotional. Which isn't an issue unless you introduce the idea that there is a hierarchy between the two and disrupt the balance. A power struggle for the sake of a power grab.

Mmm, it has turned into a thread of reminiscing, and I've deviated into Notts memories too, but it is an interesting subject. I've often wondered about this as even straight after a game, I couldn't replay in my head the passes which led to a goal, but I would remember that Kasper had clattered the upright with his studs multiple times, or other random nonsense like Lionel Perez careering towards us when the ball got wedged under one of the children's seats and he was too impatient to wait for the ball boy to retrieve it.

Some people seem to be able to remember the entire passage of play leading to a goal. I've always been in awe of that.

By the way, I don't think that's a toxic view at all. This piece is a bit heavy, and I haven't had a chance to read it properly yet, but it does seem to bear out that there are differences: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...ies%20%5B13%5D.

[SwalePie]

I remember a pre-season friendly in July or early August against fairly big name foreign opposition that was abandoned at half time due to a waterlogged pitch! Can't remember the exact game, but we had endured a long dry spell followed by a biblical thunderstorm which meant the water didn't drain away. At least we hadn't travelled to Dover twice!

Wasn't it one of the big Greek clubs? AEK maybe?

EDIT: I reckon it was this one... http://footballdays92.blogspot.com/2012/08/meadow-lane-notts-county-fc-notts.html

[CamPie]

Rapids Vienna ?

Sheaua Bucharest?

[CamPie]

Wasn't it one of the big Greek clubs? AEK maybe?

EDIT: I reckon it was this one... http://footballdays92.blogspot.com/2012/08/meadow-lane-notts-county-fc-notts.html

My god that was 10 years ago!! Now I feel old, I thought it was much more recent.

[lunaspie]

Sheaua Bucharest?

Waterford.

[queenslandpie]

I suppose it depends what part of the brain the memory hits. I still have horrible visions of watching us get relegated against Swindon at 2.30am cup of tea in hand watching ifollow. I remember more about that then the play off final against Brighton but that might be something to do with the 8 cans of Carlsberg I had before the game. I have a vivid memory of yelling" dont give it to that ****head" on the old country road before Phil turner went and thumped in a great goal as we beat West Ham in the old first division much to the amusement of all around me. And if anyone remembers I was the guy with the pink inflatable flamingo when they were all the rage back in the old Warnock days. Dont really know why I remember those things but I would sooner forget the Swindon game.

[smntrees]

Going to my first match at Notts v West Brom in 1990 when we won 4-3. Sat on the first set of steps in the main stand. Only just being able to make out the score board because of the fog.

Going to the Newcastle away game in the December with my now late uncle who was a massive Newcastle fan but went in the notts end with us.

Invading the pitch after the playoff semi final against Middlesbrough

Going to the playoff final on a barton bus

The game against man United at home when we drew 1-1 and I felt we were robbed

Most of the rest of my football memories I have tried to erase as being a notts fan is rollercoaster mainly a downhill rollercoaster though

[lunaspie]

I was the guy with the inflatable skellington that was passed over the Wembley fences to Tommy Johnson after the Brighton bulldozing.