StockholmRam

9 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

Its how it was. Away fans came into the Popside to attack Derby fans. They got a good kicking. They could have gone into the away section.

The New Romantics were w@nk tbf.

There was a lad nicknamed " Spands"... Never knew his real name. Wore New Romantic clobber top to bottom complete with Martin Kemp hairstyle... Quite often walked up Osmaston Rd with him from The Spot to BBG. He talked a good fight and often got stuck in. 

10 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

I know we've done this before but its sort of compulsory when it pops up again!

First game 1970 v Everton who were Champions at the time. Walking up to the ground as a 10 year old with the crowds, the smell of cigarette smoke, walking past pubs with that old stale beer smell wafting through the doors, being scared when grown men are shouting and threatening each other across the street, coppers keeping order with clips round the ear.

Get into the ground, feel the buzz, the sheer excitement and electricity of thousands packed in like sardines, swaying and singing, being lifted up by complete strangers and passed down to the front to sit legs crossed at the side of the pitch.....

I remember playing Leicester at home after Clough and Taylor had been sacked/resigned in 1973, it was the first game i went to with mates rather than with an adult. I was on the Popside, i thought i was a proper grown up, its hard to explain, but  i was a skinny little lad who took confidence from being old enough to get the train into Derby, walk up to the ground and be part of the masses singing their hearts out every game. I turned from a timid lad to "one of the boys" at a school that was mainly Stoke fans. Never did get bullied or picked on after that point and have always worn my Rams colours/badges etc since. Still do now.

!974-75 season was unbelieveable, we took on every club with total football. Colin Boulton in goal (got to be the best ever English keeper not to get a cap), Toddy, Nish, Thomas and Peter Daniel (standing in for the injured Roy Mac) at the back, Bruce Rioch, Henry Newton and Archie Gemmill in midfield, Gladys, Zak, Big Rog and Frannie Lee smashing the goals in......went every game, home and away. The Vulcan Street Popside was the place to be back then. Away fans would try and "take" it,  never happened....Tottenham, West Ham, Man City, Arsenal.....all got a good kicking a few seconds after the initial gap opened up on an already packed terrace.....fair play to them, can't remember any other fans trying to take the Popside, How those gaps opened up is amazing but once the bloke with the cap (from Ilson), or the big Dutch lad, Johann, piled in, it was all over for the away lads who thought little Derby were an easy touch. This was 7 or 8 years before the DLF were even heard of.

We are the Derby, the Midlands we rule....

 

 

Still waiting for the " Utch train stations of England" book to come out we are....

13 hours ago, Premier ram said:

forgot to mention the Fulham fixture , most of the Derby fans hugging the touchline waiting for the final whistle , crazy scenes , never seen anything like it , either then or now

Went on holiday to Magaluf ( classy) that Summer Premier and had a Fulham fan at our hotel. When he found out I supported Derby the mardy git blanked us for the rest of the holiday. Lol... 

Ahhhhhh where to start. Read this post yesterday and decided to have a good think first.....

Opening match for me is 1970 freezing cold 4-4 draw with Law; Best n Charlton...Les Green in goal for us and Ive read in later years that this was the game that Peter Taylor decided Les had to go..... I dont remember this day in colour at all. Me and my grandad on the corporation bus from Breadsall Hilltop into town....my grandad with his park drives non filter smoking on the bus.... fish cake and batter bits on Shaftsbury Street for the first time but most certainly not the last.

Another one sticks crazy in the mind is the fog v Burnley..night game...Mark Patterson scores a screamer, goal of his career...then he breaks his leg, the fog descends and the game is called off. Poor lad cant even claim the goal.

Gazza kicking the buckets of water all over....

Penalty spot being re painted v Citeh..Big Joe Corrigan trying to argue the length with the ref....

In sheer awe of the class of David Nish.... Just about every game. 

Being REALLY REALLY glad that I never had to play v Mick Harford.

But I think the game that stays with me as one of the most amazing was a loss actually.... 89 or 90 Im sure... Derby 4 - Chelsea 6. And if my memory serves me correctly we were 1-4 down with 15 mins to go. Never for get that one.... 

Wouldnt sway my memories or supporting this club alongside you lot for owt.... its not being boring has it.

10 hours ago, EastHertsRam said:

Gordon Bennett, how could I forget Norman Hunter being enlightened by Franny....

Ive met Leeds fans who reckon Hunter won!!!!! 

FIFA

3 hours ago, BurtonRam7 said:

Thanks for the comment.

The only problem is that my revision is all on my iPad (our school gives each student one), so it's really easy to just open a new tab and click on the forum.

I know I should be able to resist the urge but it's quite addictive.

On iPad....iiiiiiii bleedin Pad... In Eddie and Utch day you would be lucky to get a piece of slate and have to share a nub of chalk. 

5 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

You thought so? I had Khan winning the first four rounds, and he was boxing brilliantly considering he had no power to hurt Canelo so was forever on the move. His footwork was brilliant at the start.

The you noticed in round five Canelo was finding his range, and Khan was slowing down.

I thought at that moment Canelo would pin him on the ropes and hurt him in the seventh or eighth, causing a stoppage. Didn't see that one punch coming, it was devastating.

Khan, and boxing, needs to look at this and take a think about safety. The difference in power between the two was just ridiculous and luckily it seems Khan is OK, could have been far worse.

They shouldn't allow fighters to jump up two weights like that. It's OK jumping from Batamweight to Feather or even Light, but from Welter to a 170lb middleweight is insane.

I'd say that's an excellent appraisal... 

11 hours ago, Cisse said:

Being worthless at 45.

We love you though mate. 

Watches got more pages than signing Ryan Shotton..Lol...

Sandinista by The Clash and some Aphex Twin stuff.... 

Did they do velocity girl?

Yes indeed...

Went to see Primal Scream in Stockholm on Tuesday. Fantastic gig. It was a greatest hits show which is rare for them. Fab .

New long awaited Prefab Sprout album. Crimson/Red. Worth the wait.. Well I do declare its a cracker.

Just had a Talk Talk hour...