Match Day:
Percy Daltons peanuts
Having a Junior Gunners Season Ticket and sneaking into the North Bank
”We’re the top side!” “We’re the middle!”
No exec boxes at the Clock End
Climbing the steps up to the North Bank
The half time band and the baton throwing girls
Arsenal on TV being a rare occasion
A proper Arsenal badge
Standing on the North Bank and Clock End roofs
Singing in the ground an hour before kick off
Terry Neill
Don Howe
"Make Money With Arsenal" girls getting cheered as they come by
selling their scratch cards
Jack Kelsey serving in the club shop in the Clock End
Hearing the North Bank sing from Finsbury Park
Standing with your mates
Persil Rail coupons
Watching the match with a beer in your hand
The two pint beers you got shortly before alcohol was banned
The Lower West benches
In the North Bank singing from about 1:30 onwards.....
The North Bank Surge when we scored!
Paying on the gates
The old North Bank turnstiles
Standing on Highbury Grove and hearing the roars when we scored
Drinking lager on the North Bank.
Playing shit football but still loving the side
Adrenaline rushes
"Clockend do your job!!!! Clockend Clockend do your job!!!!"
No segregation fences in the Clock End
Enjoying the atmosphere
A simple cannon on the shirt
Running across the Clock End
Getting locked out and getting thrown out
Stevie Bould having hair
The Pen
The Clock End dipping in the middle
The Clock End clock standing all on its own
Blow up dolls and Mars Bars
Away coaches at Drayton Park
Charlie George never smiling
Players Profiles in match day programmes pictured with their
wives, kids and sports cars
Culture:
JVC
Mancs not winning the league for 28 years
League Cup games being big occasions
Counting down the weeks to when we played Spurs and knowing that
we would take thousands there and take the piss
Having Highbury heaving at the corners for the North London
derby
Getting beat by shit teams like Walsall and York
A decent, value for money, rail service that got you to the far
flung corners of England
Walking back to the station and all the Northerners asking you
the time to see if you were a Cockney!
Football Specials taking forever to get you anywhere
Trying to smuggle Party Seven, Emva Cream Sherry, Merry Down
Ciider, Thunderbird Wine or MD20/20 onto Football Specials after
buying child ticket
Going to every ground together
Away day shopping trips (especially the Bull Ring)
The days when our name meant something more than a good football
team
Northumberland Arms
The old Highbury Barn
Being able to afford to go home and away every week!
Fat Northerner whose arse crack was always poking out selling
Gunflash at away games
Fashion:
Arsenal and Celtic/Rangers wooly hats
Silk scarves tied to the wrists
Pringle jumpers, red Kickers, Lois Jeans, Charlie haircuts, Ray
Rankin, Benetton rugby shirts and Fila tracksuit tops
Long white butchers coats
Rattles
Rosettes
Sew on badges on kits in the 70s
One-Off:
Beating Liverpool when they were unbeatable
Hereford away in the F.A. Cup and a bull walking round the pitch
Sammy Nelson’s arse!
The Five Minute Final against the Mancs!
The Metropolitan Police Band and Constable Alex Morgan finally
dropping the baton at half time! The taunts and laughter from
the North Bank followed by “What a load of rubbish!”
Shilton in 80-81 playing a blinder until the last ten minutes
when the banter started. "Does your missus know your here?",
"Does She Take It Up The Arse?", “Shilton hit a lamp post!" and
"Tina, Tina Tina". The chants must have got to him! Rix scored
and we won 1-0
Against Derby in 1977. Tommy Docherty getting caught shagging
his assistant’s wife called Mary Brown and us singing "Who's up
Mary Brown? Who's up Mary Brown?” to “Knees Up Mother Brown!”
White Hart Lane 1970-71 and the referee, Kevin, falling to his
knees after blowing the final whistle then getting hugged by Bob
Wilson.
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