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Yes but tickets would have been £60!
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Very fair point Paul, but the chelsea millionaires would have paid it and wewould have taken our cut.
Must admit, with train cotsts etc, id have been in front of the tv with a few tins.
Happy to move on as instructed !
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I was at Stamford Bridge when we beat a full strength Chelsea side in 1961 but times change as nowadays they just play second or third string players until the Semi's.
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OK. I'm jealous.Originally Posted by MikeSB
I was in Lahore - not well renowned for its football then or now. :-D
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Were you born there AL? just wondered?
That win against Chelsea was brilliant as you can imagine. They had a load of international players as well, like Jimmy Greaves and Terry Venables and Peter Bonetti in goal and hear this!
Bonetti played 19 years for Chelsea and ended up as a Postman on the Isle of Wight or somewhere. Such was the difference in money back then, even for them at that level. Frank Blunstone ditto. Now many PL players are a millionaire in a month! Something can't be right somewhere?
I once saw Jimmy Greaves at Turf Moor when Spurs were playing Burnley and never seen a goal scored like that since. He received the ball from midfield and he was marked by the Burnely centre half and Greaves lifted the ball up and over the CH in one move and second move hit it past the advancing GK. He was a little bloke as well. They still lost 2-1 and still remember the meat and potato pie bought in the town centre before the match. We went looking for that shop after the match t
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No. Dad was railway signalling (office on Gresty Road) but seconded by UN from BR to lecture in Pakistan.
First game he took me to was Alex v. Hull 1957 - I was freezing and he made me stand BEHIND the steel roll instead of leaning on it. That was close to the current 'Le Palais de Andy Scoffin' in the now away stand.
Then they invented the wheel ...
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Your Dad must have been something special!
I spent all my working life as a Railway Engineer and had a lot of time for the 'Signal and Telegraph' chaps as it was known back then if I recall correctly? I was an apprentice in Crewe Loco.Railway Works circa 1960-65
My ex works colleague went to be the Boss over there and I finished up as a Manager in Rail House trying to motivate the multi discipline staff under my control from industrial engineering to apprentice training, from health and safety to depot plant maintence and first port of call for a blocked toilet! LOL! and findin
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Your Dad must have been something special!
I spent all my working life as a Railway Engineer and had a lot of time for the 'Signal and Telegraph' chaps as it was known back then if I recall correctly? I was an apprentice in Crewe Railway Works circa 1960-65
My ex works colleague went to be the Boss over there and I finished up as a Manager in Rail House trying to motivate the multi discipline staff under my control from industrial engineering to apprentice training, from health and safety to depot plant maintence and first port of cal
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Hi AL, Will def be at the Vale home game on the 13th Sept. Email me just before.
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Not had a chance to start reading the book yet AL, been tied up with work, applying for some jobs, sorting the football team I manage and also a family bereavement this past week.
Hopefully things will settle down and I can spend a nice quiet evening reading it.
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