How does your 'football memory' work?

[applepie2]

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

Unfortunately my memory of that season was Alan Clarke getting revenge for Leeds in the F A Cup!

[maddogslater]

Lots of memories, here's one for you, Minsk dynamos in a friendly at the lane, 4 4 then I think they won a penalty shootout 5 4, circa 75, they played in white shirts with a blue V collar and blue shorts 😉

[SwalePie]

Lots of memories, here's one for you, Minsk dynamos in a friendly at the lane, 4 4 then I think they won a penalty shootout 5 4, circa 75, they played in white shirts with a blue V collar and blue shorts 

Talking of pre-season friendly memories, who remembers Galatasary at ML and the 'kicking my own goalkeeper in the head incident'? Ouch!

[nw6pie]

The strangest thing is the random things that lodge in the mind and never shift - like the Notts fan tastelessly shouting out during a 1-1 draw to Southampton in 1982: "What was on the car radio when Alan Ball's dad died? His head." Or, the following season, a few Notts fans constantly shouting: "Dalglish, you dropped your glue bag!" during a Liverpool game. Or the Liverpool steward saying "Youse lot are even worse than Kuusysi Lahti" in 1992 as we were battered 4-0 and were very much lucky to get nil.

Then there's the Proustian rush generated by aromas - I've always associated cigar smoke with the County Road Side from the late 70s. Or the smell of liniment drifting out from the dressing rooms of the Main Stand, which if you were lucky might mask the stench from the gents' toilets or the abattoir behind County Road if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction.

Then there are the emotions - such as when the players came out for the first game against Bradford in August 2009 and I had tears in my eyes from this weird sensation called hope.

Or being told by a copper that I looked absolutely freezing at the front of the Main Stand during a game, only for him to tell me a few minutes later I was suddenly looking much healthier - which had everything to do with two late goals we'd just scored against Arsenal to win the game 2-1 back in 1981.

One pure "in-game" memory: Steff Oakes' goal from the halfway line away at Yeovil. I'd taken in two British classics en route to the ground - Stonehenge and the prototype Concorde - which made it a pretty perfect away trip and well worth getting soaked on the open terrace behind the goal.

[lunaspie]

Talking of pre-season friendly memories, who remembers Galatasary at ML and the 'kicking my own goalkeeper in the head incident'? Ouch!

'Izmir scratch !', blurted the dazed custodian.

[SwalePie]

'Izmir scratch !', blurted the dazed custodian.

[Elite_Pie]

Talking of pre-season friendly memories, who remembers Galatasary at ML and the 'kicking my own goalkeeper in the head incident'? Ouch!

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!

[lunaspie]

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!

Rapids Vienna ?

[upthemaggies]

Is there a difference between how the male and female memory works, or is it just a completely individual phenomenon?

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.

[durhampie]

Unfortunately my memory of that season was Alan Clarke getting revenge for Leeds in the F A Cup!

I remember the idiot who climbed the flood light pylon and the crowd were all shouting for him to jump.. Happy days..