Gritstone Ram

The missus got me this for when we lose.

The missus got me this for when we lose.

So Inverurie, how long have you been running "Derby Mugs R us" out there on Mull of K'intyre. 

Coming Soon.....How GOOD are your Rams Knickers?

The one I've got at work hasn't stood up to the industrial dishwasher.

The one I've got at work hasn't stood up to the industrial dishwasher.

Here's mine. 

I believe mine is rather marvellous. I've had it for 40+ years and it's never been used either.

Yes it does it holds a good cup full too. It has retained its print well. I have another at work which has lost its print in the dishwasher. 

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I prefer the traditional back 4. Two big lads in the middle. The left-back is getting on a bit and has a long term injury but he still does the job.

I like that it's black and white and has the Rampant Ram. I bet tea tastes pretty good in that every time. 

Here's mine. 

View from an alfresco dining pod at the Raddle Inn, Hollington nr Alton Towers.
 

******* cub scouts packing shopping at supermarket checkouts. 
Would you like a hand with your packing?
Errrr?  No!!! I don't want my fresh cobs packed under the milk and washing power thanks!!! 

******* cub scouts packing shopping at supermarket checkouts. 
Would you like a hand with your packing?
Errrr?  No!!! I don't want my fresh cobs packed under the milk and washing power thanks!!! 

******* cub scouts packing shopping at supermarket checkouts. 
Would you like a hand with your packing?
Errrr?  No!!! I don't want my fresh cobs packed under the milk and washing power thanks!!! 

******* cub scouts packing shopping at supermarket checkouts. 
Would you like a hand with your packing?
Errrr?  No!!! I don't want my fresh cobs packed under the milk and washing power thanks!!! 

******* cub scouts packing shopping at supermarket checkouts. 
Would you like a hand with your packing?
Errrr?  No!!! I don't want my fresh cobs packed under the milk and washing power thanks!!! 

The geezer who parks his feckin van on the corner, so I can't see what's coming down the bloody road.. Had words today 
Kids who borrow my gold clubs... Scum of the earth.

So many to think of.
I remember the dark narrow streets around the ground. The packed popside on a fa cup replay in January with stream rising up from the crowd.
Footballing wise wasn't great to start with. My memories started around the time of the 3 - 2 victory v Arsenal. I remember a lot of fans favorites like Charlie George,  Archie Gemmill,  Roy McFarland and The King returning to the Hallowed Turf. They weren't the answer to our slide. Growing up through the years with Derby at the BBG was like a soap opera. With the crowd surrounding the pitch and legging up a Fulham player. Talk of having to replay the match and empty terraces. 
A slide to Division 3 then a climb back to the top flight.
I can remember our first season at Pride Park looking out of the West Stand concourse window and seeing the old BBG floodlights and thinking I miss that place already.

So many to think of.
I remember the dark narrow streets around the ground. The packed popside on a fa cup replay in January with stream rising up from the crowd.
Footballing wise wasn't great to start with. My memories started around the time of the 3 - 2 victory v Arsenal. I remember a lot of fans favorites like Charlie George,  Archie Gemmill,  Roy McFarland and The King returning to the Hallowed Turf. They weren't the answer to our slide. Growing up through the years with Derby at the BBG was like a soap opera. With the crowd surrounding the pitch and legging up a Fulham player. Talk of having to replay the match and empty terraces. 
A slide to Division 3 then a climb back to the top flight.
I can remember our first season at Pride Park looking out of the West Stand concourse window and seeing the old BBG floodlights and thinking I miss that place already.

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....
 
 

It's 50 years this month since I first went to the Baseball Ground and I remember the Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane being played repeatedly on the tannoy system. Every time I hear either of those songs it takes me straight back to standing in the 'Boy' s Corner' and being totally enthralled by attending my first Ram's game. 
I think the game I most enjoyed was the record attendance game two years later in September 1969 when we beat Spurs 5-0. It was unbelievable that a newly promoted club could do that. 

So many to think of.
I remember the dark narrow streets around the ground. The packed popside on a fa cup replay in January with stream rising up from the crowd.
Footballing wise wasn't great to start with. My memories started around the time of the 3 - 2 victory v Arsenal. I remember a lot of fans favorites like Charlie George,  Archie Gemmill,  Roy McFarland and The King returning to the Hallowed Turf. They weren't the answer to our slide. Growing up through the years with Derby at the BBG was like a soap opera. With the crowd surrounding the pitch and legging up a Fulham player. Talk of having to replay the match and empty terraces. 
A slide to Division 3 then a climb back to the top flight.
I can remember our first season at Pride Park looking out of the West Stand concourse window and seeing the old BBG floodlights and thinking I miss that place already.