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Heres one for all the really oldies, were there seats of some kind at the back of the pop side at Springy many moons ago?
Yes, in the left hand corner as you viewed the pop side from the Phoenix Stand side.
Didn’t they end up being the bogs?[/quote]What year was it removed, I’m sure I can remember it, but I was very young so I could be imagining it.
Ah when football was fun you mean
i have a few things.
Having nobody to take me to the football so having to resort to either sitting in the tree at the back or clambering over the wall at the Shevvy end waiting for the steward to disappear and then jump into the toilets near the away end.
Going to all the local haunts, Bury, Oldham etc on a regular basis.
The noise from the Latic’s fans when we scored a goal in an enclosed terrace at away games and the people literally jumping over the top of each other.
The smell of pipes and tobacco.
Stuart Barlow scoring after about 16 seconds against man City in the Play-off game. The (Goatergate) games.
Being arrested and subsequently locked up for absolutely no reason other than walking down a street in Cheltenham.
Claiming a pub at away games after being escorted off the trains.
Pat McGibbon scoring the promotion winning goal in Div 3 (Chesterfield i think)
Warren Aspinall after being hounded by the Latics fans all day for his belly lifting up his shirt and patting it with both hands.
The hump in front of the goals at the away end.
Being chased around Burnley by a group of fully grown men as school kids for daring to wear our colours. (The Ian Wright and Neil Roberts debuts)
Baxi Wankers
Pasquale Bruno
Jorg Smeets’ stunner against Brentford
The husband and wife stewards on the main gate at Springy Park
Playing Altrincham on the telly in the F.A Cup
Teletexting the scores constantly on away games until final score came on.
Never ever signing a good loan player (Neil Woods, Stuart Whittaker, Neil Whitworth etc)(some things never die)
Watching Isidro Diaz tear left back’s apart
Probably loads more.
Ah when football was fun you meani have a few things.
Having nobody to take me to the football so having to resort to either sitting in the tree at the back or clambering over the wall at the Shevvy end waiting for the steward to disappear and then jump into the toilets near the away end.
Going to all the local haunts, Bury, Oldham etc on a regular basis.
The noise from the Latic’s fans when we scored a goal in an enclosed terrace at away games and the people literally jumping over the top of each other.
The smell of pipes and tobacco.
Stuart Barlow scoring after about 16 seconds against man City in the Play-off game. The (Goatergate) games.
Being arrested and subsequently locked up for absolutely no reason other than walking down a street in Cheltenham.
Claiming a pub at away games after being escorted off the trains.
Pat McGibbon scoring the promotion winning goal in Div 3 (Chesterfield i think)
Warren Aspinall after being hounded by the Latics fans all day for his belly lifting up his shirt and patting it with both hands.
The hump in front of the goals at the away end.
Being chased around Burnley by a group of fully grown men as school kids for daring to wear our colours. (The Ian Wright and Neil Roberts debuts)
Baxi Wankers
Pasquale Bruno
Jorg Smeets’ stunner against Brentford
The husband and wife stewards on the main gate at Springy Park
Playing Altrincham on the telly in the F.A Cup
Teletexting the scores constantly on away games until final score came on.
Never ever signing a good loan player (Neil Woods, Stuart Whittaker, Neil Whitworth etc)(some things never die)
Watching Isidro Diaz tear left back’s apart
Probably loads more.
Some brilliant memories there Yosser, keep’em coming fellow Latics men.
I remember as a kid ringing up for score updates when my Dad couldn’t take us. I can still remember the numbers
44433
43067
43512I’m sure they were the numbers, one was the supporters club I know that.
Last game of the season under larry lloyd when we were promoted against mansfield, everyone standing round the edge of the pitch then mass invasion, and watching it back on kick off the day after.
I remember walking down park road in a big mob on the last day of the season, cant remember what year, and invading the cricket match opposite the tech.
Crowd trouble nealy every home game in the 80’s, scary times when your only a young teenager, pne taking the pop side in a league cup game, walsall on the pitch, stockport, sheff utd, cardiff, plymouth in our end, going to away games and watching our lads do the same.
Going to maine road and being asked “where you from lad”, avoided a slap by saying warrington,confused him that.
Going to goodison and being asked “where yous from lad, and getting a slap.Getting the ‘Football Pink’ at six o’clock saturday night to see how we went on at far away places like Matlock,Gainsborough and South Shields.
Ringing the ground about an hour before kick off in winter to see if the game was still on.
Buying a silk pendant from the ‘club shop’, a poxy shed at the side of the phoenix stand.
Being mighty impressed with Port Vale’s ground.
Larry Lloyd cadging a cig in Chaplins.
Chatting with Harry Lyon in the supporters club bar on Woodhouse Lane and telling him he was my boyhood hero.
Heres one for all the really oldies, were there seats of some kind at the back of the pop side at Springy many moons ago?
Yes, in the left hand corner as you viewed the pop side from the Phoenix Stand side.
Didn’t they end up being the bogs?[/quote]What year was it removed, I’m sure I can remember it, but I was very young so I could be imagining it.[/quote]
Sometime in the sixties I think.
A ginger head rising to deflect the ball into the top corner of the net at a famous London stadium one day in May 2013.
I have thought of one. After being promoted from div 3 there was a pitch invasion and everyone in the stadium pretty much gathered around the players tunnel. The pundit of the time for the North West was Elton Welsby and i believe he had been non too complimentary about the Latics and he appeared out of the tunnel whilst the joyous crowd was chanting for the players etc and this mon Welsby popped up arm aloft with a grin on his face like he was the Queen or something expecting some kind of heroes welcome i presume only to be greeted by thousands chanting ‘Welsby is a wanker’ his face soon dropped and he was never seen again.
I have thought of one. After being promoted from div 3 there was a pitch invasion and everyone in the stadium pretty much gathered around the players tunnel. The pundit of the time for the North West was Elton Welsby and i believe he had been non too complimentary about the Latics and he appeared out of the tunnel whilst the joyous crowd was chanting for the players etc and this mon Welsby popped up arm aloft with a grin on his face like he was the Queen or something expecting some kind of heroes welcome i presume only to be greeted by thousands chanting ‘Welsby is a wanker’ his face soon dropped and he was never seen again.He felt it necessary to apologise for having our promotion clinching game against Mansfield on ITVs Kick Off program. He said people had complained that they were showing a 4th division match as their featured game.
I have thought of one. After being promoted from div 3 there was a pitch invasion and everyone in the stadium pretty much gathered around the players tunnel. The pundit of the time for the North West was Elton Welsby and i believe he had been non too complimentary about the Latics and he appeared out of the tunnel whilst the joyous crowd was chanting for the players etc and this mon Welsby popped up arm aloft with a grin on his face like he was the Queen or something expecting some kind of heroes welcome i presume only to be greeted by thousands chanting ‘Welsby is a wanker’ his face soon dropped and he was never seen again.Scouse git Welsby, he hated us. The letters of his Christian name said it all.
E-Everton
L-Liverpool
T-Tranmere
O-Or
N-NobodyFirst ever game at dear departed Springy, the smell and noise. The vastness of the stadium to a young starry eyed kid starting out on his lifelong passion for this insane brilliant club that would take over his life. The whiff of wintergreen from the tunnel and the excitement at school the day after coz the Latics had won making this kids first experience just perfect.
The seats on the pop side disappeared around 1968/69 when the new terracing went in. Before the terrace it was an ash type bank but with seats as discussed. Terracing built took the pop side capacity to 15,000 which made the councils restrictions 15-20 years later ridiculous. I remember getting clicked in by a steward with a clicker with a capacity of something like 1000 or so. Bloody council!! Those anti-Latics gets wouldn’t even let the club have turnstiles on St Andrews Drive and at one time the exits couldn’t be used. That site could have comfortably had a 15-20,000 stadium on it with extra car parking. Bloody council! We all, we all, we all know, all the council. Never forget!! Oh and and the pop side had a new cover on it too in the eighties to keep the 1000 dry.
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