12 Blundell Park Remembers

Informing away fans that they were going to get their heads kicked in!  

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Rolls of toilet paper thrown when we scored.  What was that about??

There was also a lack of information about the results of other matches.  But then we had a very different news management society.

Yep, and shredded newspaper thrown into the air as confetti when we came out of the tunnel.
The players walking into the centre of the pitch and then forming a line and raising their arms in the air before turning a 360 waving to all sections of the crowd. 'Up the Mariners' playing on the public address system. Being packed in on the Pontoon and going mental when we scored, trying desparately not to to be trampled to the floor and then popping up in a completely different part of the stand when the celebrations died down - battered, but joyful, seeing if you could loocate your mates again.

I too remember the Norman Wisdom impersonator (class). A bloke called Gobby Dave starting the 'I'll give you a G..' chant. Singing 'you're gonna get your f***ing heads kicked in' when we conceded. Shouting 'Nigel where's your 3 wheeler?' to Batchy. Reseve games being free to get in.......

Getting in The Pontoon early to get your usual spot when you knew it was going to be a big crowd only for some 6' 8" bloke to come and stand in front of you a minute before kick-off.

The surge down the terraces when we came anywhere near The Pontoon goal, and ending up about 20 yards away from where you were originally stood celebrating a goal like a complete nutter with total strangers.

Quoted from ivanosandwich

Seeing the Happy Mariner in the Sports Telegraph after the game. A big smile if we win, bit of a sideways glance for a draw and a really down expression when we lost. Also seem to recall that his hat had almost fallen off in the lost photo, exposing his bald head.

Actually two faces for the draw. One for a home draw and a marginally happier one for an away draw.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Rolls of toilet paper thrown when we scored.  What was that about??

There was also a lack of information about the results of other matches.  But then we had a very different news management society.

Toilet rolls? For me it was bus ticket rolls

Used to find them on the shelf behind the bench seat just as you got on the bus (where the pole was that you could hang off - remember that. Great fun!!)

I bet there were a few "clippies" who used to curse (and maybe the drivers got annoyed too - sorry Pete!!    ) when they came to change the roll in their ticket machine and couldn't find any  

Well they could have done if they'd gone looking further afield....they were just hanging off the goal at the Pontoon end every time we scored  

Someone coming out of the Pontoon every home game to give Harry Wainman an orange (he made the mistake of telling the GET he liked oranges)

Posters on the buses advertising the match: Town versus xxxxx.

Nicked loads as souvenirs. Still in the loft I think with all my programmes!

Dave Worthington ball juggling as part of his warm up,his specialty being flicking the ball over his head and catching it between the shoulder blades
Stuart Brace scoring 4 in a game against Oldham including 3 in about 6 minutes
Dave Boylen scoring direct from a corner against Plymouth
And on and on. Oh, happy days of my carefree youth!

I havn't been a Town supporter as long as most of you on here but sounded like great times, so what the hell do we want to move to a new stadium for,it would never feel the same to you guys with your fond memories.UTM.

I can just about remember Mini Mariner and smoking in BP being legal.