Greatest ever memory at Highbury

Eboue-Why? · Post by **Eboue-Why?** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:52 pm

olgitgooner wrote:I doubt if many on here are old enough to remember THIS one......

9th December 1967.

Home to Sheffield Wednesday. Match abandoned just before half time. Snow. Lots of snow.

It was the only game on in London, because of our under-soil heating.

So we attracted a mottley crew of footie fans from the postponed games.

The Sheffield lot were on the west terrace. Standing with them were (I think) fans of Coventry, Wolves, etc. All having a great time.

You really are an old git aren't you?!?!

The atmosphere was fantastic fun. Very surreal. Complete with snowball fights.

You really are an old git aren't you?!?!?!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:59 pm

olgitgooner wrote:I doubt if many on here are old enough to remember THIS one......

9th December 1967.

Home to Sheffield Wednesday. Match abandoned just before half time. Snow. Lots of snow.

It was the only game on in London, because of our under-soil heating.

So we attracted a mottley crew of footie fans from the postponed games.

The Sheffield lot were on the west terrace. Standing with them were (I think) fans of Coventry, Wolves, etc. All having a great time.

The atmosphere was fantastic fun. Very surreal. Complete with snowball fights.

Believe it or not I had actually attended my first game by then

But I don't remember that one. Our undersoil heating was really radical though. A state of the art innovation at that time.

Eboue-Why? · Post by **Eboue-Why?** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:11 pm

Date, opponents and score please Rob you pensioner!!

Post by **Mike1** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:59 pm

Some great memories folks - thanks for the response.

I've stuck with the two that I started with, but have added a couple of the ones mentioned which are more personal and have credited the writers accordingly although no idea whether they'll actually get used.

Cheers

Mike

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:36 pm

Eboue-Why? wrote:Date, opponents and score please Rob you pensioner!!

October 14th 1967 Arsenal 2 Sunderland 1 . George Graham scored our winner

at the Clock End. I can still remember it

One other occasion worth recalling for different reasons is January 31st 1976 v Sheffield Utd., We finished 17th that season and only very narrowly avoided the drop. We won 1 - 0 with Liam Brady scoring the crucial late goal. The attendence was 14,477. It was like watching a kickabout in a vast empty aircraft hanger.

It was freezing cold to boot and we made a half time bonfire on the North Bank with some newspapers and huddled round it like a bunch of rufugees. I kid you not !!!

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:49 pm

So many memories to recall it's hard to think of a favourite but in my list

1. Being in the North Bank and ducking to miss Brian McClair's missed penalty in the FA Cup. Nutty gave him some verbals to start two decades of hatred with the Mancs !

2. Countless victories over the Scum from the lane but in particular witnessing Thierry take them on from his own half and beat the fucking lot. I was in the West stand so had the pleasure of seeing him sprint past to slide on his knees in front of the scummers in the corner of the Clock End

3. Paul Davis's punch on Glenn Cockerill. Being an inattentive youth I think I was one of the few who actually saw it live

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:36 pm

One memory of mine was a mazy run by Liam Brady against Leicester in 1978, towards the North Bank end.

I think it was just after half time and he went around 4-5 players and hit a shot from the edge of the area which Mark Wallington saved by getting his finger tips to it and pushing the ball onto the post.

It was just amazing and remember during his run getting a hard on....

(but it soon went when the shot hit the post)

MutleyGooner · Post by **MutleyGooner** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:38 pm

franksav63 wrote:One memory of mine was a mazy run by Liam Brady against Leicester in 1978, towards the North Bank end.

I think it was just after half time and he went around 4-5 players and hit a shot from the edge of the area which Mark Wallington saved by getting his finger tips to it and pushing the ball onto the post.

It was just amazing and remember during his run getting a hard on.... (but it soon went when the shot hit the post)

We should start a thread titled "Most memorable woody"

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:40 pm

Great idea Mutley, I'll have a post as long as Augie's (pardon the pun by the way)

Eboue-Why? · Post by **Eboue-Why?** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:49 pm

MutleyGooner wrote:
franksav63 wrote:One memory of mine was a mazy run by Liam Brady against Leicester in 1978, towards the North Bank end.

I think it was just after half time and he went around 4-5 players and hit a shot from the edge of the area which Mark Wallington saved by getting his finger tips to it and pushing the ball onto the post.

It was just amazing and remember during his run getting a hard on.... (but it soon went when the shot hit the post)
We should start a thread titled "Most memorable woody"

The way my wife's looking at me it could be tonight!!!

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:51 pm

Eboue...

Post by **g88ner** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:22 pm

Eboue-Why? wrote: The way my wife's looking at me it could be tonight!!!

Yeah, I'm sure watching you typing away on an internet forum really gets your wife in the mood

Basil is a Gooner · Post by **Basil is a Gooner** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:42 pm

Maybe he just opened the thread with the **** pic.....

Basil is a Gooner · Post by **Basil is a Gooner** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:48 pm

Anyway, my favourite Highbury memory is standing on a milkcrate on the North Bank (being a shortarse) so that I could see; holding on to my dad as I was swept forwards in goal celebration......

(never did see that milkcrate again).

Seeing Matt Lucas at half time but being too embarrassed to say "what are the scores George Dawes".

Smoked salmon bagels.

My sons favourite memory is being allowed to use the referee's toilet before we started the Highbury tour.

BT · Post by BT » Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:58 pm

Has to be Everton 98 for me too...a perfect mix of the old faithful and the new excitement that Wenger had brought...Tony Adams with his arms aloft in the sunshine...North Bank rocking...cheering all the players as they left the ground...spending the evening drinking somewhere near Highbury even though I was underage and it was a few days before my gcse exams begun.

And a personal memory was taking my dearly beloved late grandma to see us play villa (her team) and after we beat them quite badly her wanting to stay after the ground had emptied out for a fag. A steward came over to clear us out and asked my gran why she didnt flick her ash on the floor like everyone else instead of into her portable ashtray. She smiled and said 'I wouldnt want to dirty this beautiful ground'

Ah this is making me very teary-eyed.