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So you can't spot the difference ? Look hard it is there !?
 

So you can't spot the difference ? Look hard it is there !?
 

the joy was short lived and I feel it also may have been false !
This evening I thought I would lay some powder for my idea to erect a 12 foot flag pole from our roof top and adorn the flag from it, I did say that initially it would be for the period covering the play offs and the gauge what the neighbours feel about once they have had a couple of weeks to live with it.
apparently this is not going to happen unless it's over her dead body.
watch this space ! 

Good work today but when I got into the ground it did look like a KKK meet upon first glance !!

This was me on top of the Empire State Building in May this year, two seconds later I was pounced on and wrestled to the ground and disarmed of my "unauthorised banner" the NYPD undercover officers thought I was mounting a religious protest ! What made it worse was when they said they had never heard of Derby County !! 

You can almost feel the hairs on the back of your neck start to tingle !!!

When I had, ahem calmed down a bit I started to take a friends 12 year old lad on the popside ,we were playing Chelsea and the away fans were banned after throwing the seats on to the pitch the previous season .
They did get in and a scrap started on the popside so I took the lad down the front and put him on the running track .I look back up the terracing to see a line of coppers with a sergeant on the end just watching it go on.
I walked back up the terracing through the punch up and spoke to the sergeant "are you going to sort this out I've got a young lad with me and these buggers aren't even supposed to be here"
The copper looked at me took his helmet off and handed it to me " here son you want it sorting out borrow my helmet "
Pride Park just not the same.

Had a go at this but without much thought - what stands out from a quick review of the memory ? maybe those are the most pertinent (and not sure these are in chronological order) :
- first visit, night match v Hull , 3:2 to us I think in 1969
- Championship presentation at the BBG  on a sunday (? )  after we first won it 
- 4:1 win over Real Madrid, Oct 75 (?) , Charlie at his best
- Roger's incredible 5 against Luton. He should have had 8. 
- Beating the mighty Liverpool in the 80s - think it was 4 ;0 at half time.
- First match against Clough's Forest since their return. 0:0, incredible atmosphere, great game
- Appalling and shocking racism and hatred from Rams fans on the Popside when we played Ardiles and Villas' Spurs
- Running for cover with my old man  out of the Ossie End from rioting Man City fans. Having been a season ticket holder since the old Third Division days he never went to the BBG again. 
- Laughing with my mates when being hemmed in by thousands of fans both getting in to the ground (pop-side)  and coming out, with your feet hardly touching the ground. Little did we know how close to a Hillsborough-like catastrophe we were.
- Crammed into the Normanton terraces to see Norman Whiteside win it for Man U 
- Very similar scenario against Sheff Wed. Bobby Davison - what a hero. 
- Beating Lincoln 7;0 in the third division
- Promotion against Plymouth on the last day of the season
- Ditto against Palace, then the London media's darlings 
 
 

great stuff, I was a regular on the pop, fantastic times and why is it that thinking about the good times make you feel melancholy?

You can almost feel the hairs on the back of your neck start to tingle !!!

I managed to "get" a brick, an old wooden seat from the Osmaston End and the best thing was one of the single bulbs / lights out of one of the floodlights, its massive !

Is this the best memory ?
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R.I.P. BBG