When I were a lad still going to the games with my dad we would go to the
Fox and Hounds in Horforth (alright Cookridge for the more pedantic of you)
for opening time at 5:30, and at 6pm sharp Big Bernard would go across the
road to the Menzies newsagent and return with an armful of "Green 'uns" and
an armful of "Pink 'uns" - were the "Pink 'uns" the Bratfud paper?
Even at the height of the Revie era more people in Leeds (particularly north
Leeds) were more interested in Leeds RL than LUFC.
Cheers
Graham (not Palmer or Farr)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Thirkill" <[email protected]>
To: "Steve Gillen" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [LU] Oldies
Who remembers the Yorkshire Evening Post and Yorkshire Evening News trucks
banging out the football results on the stop press on the backs of the
newspapers.
And later on in the streets all round Leeds blokes yelling and selling
"Green Final".
What a great paper that was for YorkshireSport. It was all printed and
sold within a
couple of hours of the games finishing.
Thirkers
http://web.mac.com/thirkers_leeds/iWeb/Site/Photos%205.html
On 24 Feb 2010, at 20:04, Steve Gillen wrote:
I am 55 and have had to look up the details of my first game - I thought
I
was about 7 or 8 at the time but it turns out I was 9 - I can still
clearly
remember the vivid colours of the opposition shirts (Blackpool) when we
played them on 7th September 1964 and I was watching from the boys pen -
just next to where all the bus drivers and conductors used to stand
watching
before they left 10 minutes from the end to get the busses started.
Stotty you mentioned the loss of Jabba's statto pages - until this can
rise
phoenix like back amongst us - you might like to try this one....
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/leeds-united
Thirkers, I too remember those "free" tickets given out at school to get
into games, I managed to get away with freebies for a god 3 or 4 years
before they either called a halt to it or I left school one or the other
Steve G (yet another OGOTL)
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