You only like the glamour boys!

[DB10GOONER]

[quote="charliegeorgewhocanhitem

Just a lot of the stuff you post on here reminds me of a Gooner mate of mine. Great bloke, raised two great sons to be die hard Arsenal, wears the 1970's jersey and has some great tales to tell about the old old days (before even I was a Gooner and, being 40, I'm pushing on 36 years loyal service to the cause!).

Deffo not boring mate! All great stuff.

And I think that's the difference between us and most Man Utd fans; we love the tradition, the heritage and the history of our great club, not just recent success. Most MankWanks only want to talk about the Fergusmoan years and the recent success they've had.

They have no f*cking class, man.

Thanks, I'm lucky to have supported the club through a few great eras and some totally unforgettable matches, Fairs Cup 70, whl 71 wembley 71 Anfield 89 and whl 04 are the obvious ones that spring to mind but there's many more. You're right, mancs think the world was created on the day that Taggart took over and nothing ever happened in fotball before the premiership was created.
Nothing I've seen in my time can match the out of this world football we've seen and continue to see during the Wenger years but I still love talking about the old days as you've noticed and I have been known to wear the 70s jersey too, got the long sleeved home, short sleeved home and the Wembley 71 yellow, much better without all that sponsor shite on the front

Yeah, agree there. My missus reckons because I'm now 40 I should start wearing the 70's jersey and I think she's probably right.

F*ck it - I'm gonna do a poll (in honour of Stearmaster and Stats!! )

Please see; "What Jersey Should DB10 wear?"

[Chippy]

When I first started reading this forum I was reluctant to post as I thought you'd all be youngsters, but i soon saw from the references that there are quite a few old farts around

I remember Brian Moore on the Big Match and I think we used to get a good shout on that programme as it was a London programme and we were one of the First Division sides. There were fewer London sides in the top flight then.

Cat weazle was good Aunt Sally but surely it was Thunderbirds after TBM in the really good old days!

I am on my 3rd 70s shirt which will be getting another airing on Saturday.

[charliegeorgewhocanhitem]

When I first started reading this forum I was reluctant to post as I thought you'd all be youngsters, but i soon saw from the references that there are quite a few old farts around

I remember Brian Moore on the Big Match and I think we used to get a good shout on that programme as it was a London programme and we were one of the First Division sides. There were fewer London sides in the top flight then.

Cat weazle was good Aunt Sally but surely it was Thunderbirds after TBM in the really good old days!

I am on my 3rd 70s shirt which will be getting another airing on Saturday.

Remembering the old big match is one of the few benefits of getting old mate Yep, the main match was always a London club and you could always guess the game by watching the fotball preview on World Of Sport on the saturday because Brian Moore used to present it from the tv gantry at the ground they were filming at. To all you youngens, they were'nt supposed to advertise what game was on til after the game in those days. After the main London game we always got to watch brief highlights of two or three regional games as well, remember Hugh Johns on midlands tv and Gerald Sindstat on Granada? I always remember Thunderbirds as a sat morning thing but I could be wrong about that, after Catweazle it was always the charts on the radio followed by "Sing Something Simple" sunday night bath, get stuff ready for school and off to bed for me Wish I could get Catweazle on dvd, can't see it anywhere

[daz10_uk]

Charlie ive just checked www.play.com and they have Catweazle DVDs on there...... Check it out mate just type catweazle into play's search bar it come up with loads well a few.

[Chippy]

At the risk of turning this into old farts corner.....

I may be a year or two older than you Charlie. Thunderbirds was mid sixties in that Sunday afternoon spot that Catweazle filled later (early seventies). The Saturday morning was a repeat. Programmes weren't repeated 5 minutes after they first appeaered in those days and for our younger readers we didn't have videos

"Sing Something Simple", god wasn't that the biggest pile of crap around

Remeber the regional stuff and have a horrible memory of Southampton often being on that bit. Might be just a nightmare.

[charliegeorgewhocanhitem]

Charlie ive just checked www.play.com and they have Catweazle DVDs on there...... Check it out mate just type catweazle into play's search bar it come up with loads well a few.

Cheers mate, I'll definitely check that out, I'll get the hang of this interweb thingy one day. we only had two bean tins linked by a piece of string in my day (don't ask )

[charliegeorgewhocanhitem]

At the risk of turning this into old farts corner.....

I may be a year or two older than you Charlie. Thunderbirds was mid sixties in that Sunday afternoon spot that Catweazle filled later (early seventies). The Saturday morning was a repeat. Programmes weren't repeated 5 minutes after they first appeaered in those days and for our younger readers we didn't have videos

"Sing Something Simple", god wasn't that the biggest pile of crap around

Remeber the regional stuff and have a horrible memory of Southampton often being on that bit. Might be just a nightmare.

Oh go on, turn it into an old farts corner, the youngens will piss off and do their own thing I'm sure I was born in 58 so have some memory of the mid 60s but a much better one of the late 60s/early 70s. I do remember Thunderbirds predecessors, Fireball XL5 and Stingray and even one that never seems to get much of a mention, Supercar. Gerry Anderson was a genius
"Sing Something Simple" was the most depressing thing in the world was'nt it Always heralded the end of the weekend and back to school on monday and it always came on straight after the chart show so was a real anit climax after hearing Desmond Dekker sing The Israelites and T. Rex doing Ride A White Swan
Yeah, I remember they showed Southampton a lot on Southern tv, I mean whose did they have to cover down there?

[Chippy]

Just a bit older, '55. I am from Slough originally and Gerry Anderson's studio was on Slough Trading Estate about 500 yards from the Mars factory and about 200 yards from the Wagon Wheels factory. We had to find something to be proud about in Slough!

As I remember Sunday it was something like

Church
Round the Horne/The Navy Lark
Lunch (we called it dinner then!)
The Big Match
Thunderbirds
Hit Parade with people like David Jacobs, do you remeber when we thought Alan Freeman was cool
Sing Something Simple
Homework
Bed

I used to have my bath on Saturday morning.


Going back to the original point of this thread about us being a glamour club, I lived oop north from '74 to '81 so went to most away games north of Watford. A lot easier then. For most games you could turn up and pay on the gate. So having spent years watching the team play on what were pretty much literally ploughed fields from little more than sheds (Derby, Notts, Leicester) and winning nothing, i can honestly say it wasn't glamorous.

Highlights from that period and there weren't many

Chippy Brady
79 Cup Final (I was living in Manchester)
Winning at Anfield but I can't remember the season
Winning at Old Trafford but i can't...

I keep telling my son to savour the Wenger years cos they will be remembered as the glory days of the club and unlikely to be repeated in his life time (I hope I'm wrong).

This is where all the youngsters go "silly old fart".......

[charliegeorgewhocanhitem]

Just a bit older, '55. I am from Slough originally and Gerry Anderson's studio was on Slough Trading Estate about 500 yards from the Mars factory and about 200 yards from the Wagon Wheels factory. We had to find something to be proud about in Slough!

As I remember Sunday it was something like

Church
Round the Horne/The Navy Lark
Lunch (we called it dinner then!)
The Big Match
Thunderbirds
Hit Parade with people like David Jacobs, do you remeber when we thought Alan Freeman was cool
Sing Something Simple
Homework
Bed

I used to have my bath on Saturday morning.


Going back to the original point of this thread about us being a glamour club, I lived oop north from '74 to '81 so went to most away games north of Watford. A lot easier then. For most games you could turn up and pay on the gate. So having spent years watching the team play on what were pretty much literally ploughed fields from little more than sheds (Derby, Notts, Leicester) and winning nothing, i can honestly say it wasn't glamorous.

Highlights from that period and there weren't many

Chippy Brady
79 Cup Final (I was living in Manchester)
Winning at Anfield but I can't remember the season
Winning at Old Trafford but i can't...

I keep telling my son to savour the Wenger years cos they will be remembered as the glory days of the club and unlikely to be repeated in his life time (I hope I'm wrong).

This is where all the youngsters go "silly old fart".......

Well would you beleive it, I've got time off work this week and been pissing about with the radio, tuning into staions I would'nt normally listen to and the last two mornings I've put BBC Radio 7 on and guess what two old radio shows they had? Round the Horn and the Navy Lark How anybody ever thought these shows were funny I don't know and I could'nt listen to more than five minutes of either One more old fart radio thing, The Clitheroe Kid, not too sure if Radio 7 repeat that but I don't think it'd be a good idea to find out
Mars, Wagon Wheels and Gerry Anderson in the same town?? maybe we've enderrated Slough for all these years I've only ever been round it on the bypass with my Australian girlfriend who called it Sloff Understandable mistake for those who'se first language is'nt English I spose
I spent many years traveliing to lots of norvern hell holes too, had to get the train or car up there tho, not <ahem> lucky enough to live there Saw some scabby old grounds, Bolton's old ground always springs to mind I'm enjoying the Wneger years as a reward in me old age for having to watch the likes of John Mathews, Peter Nicholas, David Price, Ritchie Powling and Georgey (whoops where's the ball gone) Woods etc in me time. I hope your kids to appreciate it