Signed team football from what I believe to be Jimmy Sirrel's last season.
Inspired by the appeal for unwanted memorabilia thread, what is everybody's most precious item?
I used to be a hoarder and a collector of all things, but I then went through an experience in my mid 20s that made me realise that it was alot of baggage (mentally as well as physically) that I could do without and I chucked tonnes of stuff out. I have still got my first Notts shirt (the adidas design) but I'd have to say my programme for my first Notts match would be the one thing I'd want to rescue from a fire. It's completely worthless and could be replaced, but it wouldn't be the actual one I had with me that day.
Signed team football from what I believe to be Jimmy Sirrel's last season.
Signed 1998 champions shirt. Signed by the players from Ian Richardsons testimonial.
Also i have a bunch of 90s shirts in a loft in Lincoln that i left behind years ago
Personalised autograph and a lovely message from then manager Jimmy Sirrel before kick off at my first ever Notts game behind the old main stand.
Didn't fully appreciate as a kid at the time but is the first and favourite signature in my Junior Magpies autograph book and treasured now.
Jimmy Sirrel's tie, pictured in my avitar. I was over from Ireland and my mate and I had the pleasure of having a drink with the great man. It was near the end of the 1980/81 season when we were just about promoted (those were the days!). Jimmy was wearing a brown tie with the single Magpie logo and my mate asked him where we could get one. Jimmy said that he didn't think there were any left. My mate asked Jimmy for his. He sold it to us for £4!
Definitely my most treasured Notts related item.
I have a scrap book from the 1949/50 season when Notts won div.3 South in the Lawton/Sewell era. We did the double over Forest that season and Tommy Lawton autographed it for me. My form teacher gave it me in 1962.
I also have a photo of me and Jimmy Sirrel taken in 1976. (My avatar). It's framed on my bedside cabinet.
My signed Notts shirt and video from Ruben wishing me a happy stag do last year. The one Notts thing I wish I still had was the tartan terror.
My season ticket booklet for the 1981/82 season, signed by Sir Jimmy himself.
My mum (bless her) took me to Meadow Lane to buy it a couple of weeks before our first season in the top flight. I was only 14 and this was a really exciting time to be a Notts fan (I think we had just signed John Chiedozie). As mum and I were leaving the ticket office behind the old Main Stand Jimmy Sirrel appeared from nowhere. I was like a starstruck ****ager and couldn't get my words out when he came over for a chat but he shook my hand and thanked my mum for buying me the ticket. That summer's day will live with me forever...
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