Judging by the looks on the faces, that was just before running through the nettles.
Just about to ask if it was Tomaszewski Cloughie called a clown, when I went below the picture.
I once spent a week trapped in Darwin with a boring Liverpudlian who, I learnt over and over again, had just joined the Masons and had named his son Ian after Ian Callaghan. Oh, the awful memories that photo brings back!
Peter Jones in the middle takes me back to our European Cup days. Me and me dad sat around the radio for the football special at 2 minutes past 8.
Same here FP very special nights they were.Peter Jones in the middle takes me back to our European Cup days. Me and me dad sat around the radio for the football special at 2 minutes past 8.
It was always a worry though as the game had already been running for 15 minutes or half an hour so his first words were often recordings of goals that had already been scored. "After 17 minutes this happened" "and after 24 minutes this happened". Fortunately we were usually the ones doing the scoring back then. Crazy when you think back but we had absolutely no other way of knowing the score.Same here FP very special nights they were.
Listening to the Cologne v Forest away leg, was the one of the worst/most exciting radio nights ever for me.It was always a worry though as the game had already been running for 15 minutes or half an hour so his first words were often recordings of goals that had already been scored. "After 17 minutes this happened" "and after 24 minutes this happened". Fortunately we were usually the ones doing the scoring back then. Crazy when you think back but we had absolutely no other way of knowing the score.
I remember the days of the score flash every 15 minutes from Forest away games in the early 70s.It was always a worry though as the game had already been running for 15 minutes or half an hour so his first words were often recordings of goals that had already been scored. "After 17 minutes this happened" "and after 24 minutes this happened". Fortunately we were usually the ones doing the scoring back then. Crazy when you think back but we had absolutely no other way of knowing the score.
I actually remember his name, because at the time it made me chuckle. But to be truthful I remember very little of his match comentary.I remember the days of the score flash every 15 minutes from Forest away games in the early 70s.
Anyone remember Mick Wormald on Radio Nottingham?
Sometimes the reception wasn’t very good-I recall him getting cut off in his prime during a crucial moment at York City on a Friday night in 1975!
It wasn’t an actual commentary,Rocka-it was just an updated score at 15,30,45,60,75 and 90 minutes (II actually remember his name, because at the time it made me chuckle. But to be truthful I remember very little of his match comentary.
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The away end Roots Hall.