Stand Up for Steve Coppell!!!

[jenster81]

you upper west boys and girls
always with the fighting talk

thank you...

[AthleticoSpizz]

yes

why stand?


the seats are comfortable.....this aint Loftus Road...after all


its just about kids who never experienced standing in the Southbank January 1974 imho.


damp, smelly, over-run with opposition fans, no facilities (other than the "Police meat wagon (Bedford RL)" parked right by the South Bank entrance)


Smelly smell of damp whitleyite with bad tooth breath

The odd one or two "hard men" goading the opposition fans..................then running to find a safe haven and solstice behind the kids and dads

Nicotine stained parkas and damp raincoats

Narizz Fizz


power cuts....football being played on a Sunday before the sun went down


Percy Freeman

Seats?

Elm Park 1973-1980


you never had it so good them were the days







two minutes applause for the "living instead of the dead" would be nice.

Fan/plastic debates aside...

I found your post entertaining.

I only wish I was there back then. The Southbank was magical enough in my time, but back in 1974 it sounds even more grimy.

Was it really the case that there was no segregation? I'd heard this before but never really digested it.

I bet loads of fights would break out? Must have been tense every game surely.

Would people generally migle or would there be distinct informal ends?

Oh to be there as a Reading fan in those non-sterile days...

generally fans would mingle...Northampton fans favoured the Tilehurst end, whilst Torquay fans favoured the Town end.

Pompey "fans" took the Southbank


Whilst Burnley (second in the old "premier" at the time) fans stood in the Western side of the Southbank during a cup game (2-1 to them Dickie Habbin being our goal scorer......the national papers having BRAVE READING LOSE on their back page)


As a teen I had the back of my head slapped by a coppers gauntlet for swearing on the back row of the Southbank........before the days of hoooooooooman rights of course

[rob the royal]

Chants are for pLOLastics

Coming from the man who joined just after we were crowned champions last season

what's a chant?

[Compo's Hat]

And all this because we love Steve Coppell


I'll be joining in... if i get back from my cigarette and beer in time

[M4 Junction 11]

And all this because we love Steve Coppell


I'll be joining in... if i get back from my cigarette and beer in time

So are we now changing this to Stand Up If You Love Coppell!!!