Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
A great recent interview with the Forest legend.
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Ian BOMBER Bowyer. (Still alive and well)
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A great recent interview with the Forest legend.
Quntib Hollox
Jack Armstrong
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
I'm glad you added the words in brackets to the thread title Gary!
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Aye, after recent events I thought it would be wise Frank.
Met him as well, three weeks back. An absolute gentleman.
congo_red_49
Ale Ape
Fun fact - I'm unofficially named Ian after Bomber.
Mum wanted to name me after another Ian, but Dad rolled with it and just decided if it was good enough for Bowyer then it was good enough for me.
Mum wanted to name me after another Ian, but Dad rolled with it and just decided if it was good enough for Bowyer then it was good enough for me.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
I absolutely concur Chris. As well as being a great player, Bomber is the most 'normal', un-starry, unaffected ex-sportsman you could ever meet in person. He still remains firmly amongst my top-5 favourite Forest players (Jeff Whitefoot, Joe Baker, IS-M and Robbo being the others).
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
No words needed.
Tony Woodcock's LoveChild
Now what?
Loved that
Dad gets a mention about cleaning Mr Clough's shoes. Never lived that down in our household!
Cologne: 24:27
"Everybody had near enough given up on us. Except for the people of Nottingham".
Absolutely melts me.
Love life. Love Bomber.
Sent from another dimension. Pay close attention.
IIRC the Post headline was "WUNDEBAR!! AS BOWYER STOOPS TO CONQUER!"
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Shoulda been "BOWYER'S BOUNCING BOMB SINKS THE JEERMANS!"IIRC the Post headline was "WUNDEBAR!! AS BOWYER STOOPS TO CONQUER!"
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
I remember seeing a bed sheet that read "BIRTLES WILL WIPE THE FLOOR WITH AJAX"Japanese Sub sinks Forest...
Nottingham Forest wipe the floor with Ajax
The Nottingham Forest one was graffiti in the old Old Market Square bogs a day or so after the event iirc
Bonfy177
LTLF MORON
Had “Welcome to Beirut“ sprayed on the wall where I lived when I was a boy,
It was that rough for safety the dogs walked about in pairs,
But you know what I loved the place.
It was that rough for safety the dogs walked about in pairs,
But you know what I loved the place.
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Did the arms on the chairs have tattoos?
Bonfy177
LTLF MORON
Aye that’s the oneDid the arms on the chairs have tattoos?
……Going in the pub you’d be asked “got any weapons on ya?” If you answered “no“ they’d ask what do you want ?
…..I loved it, so many funny things happened around the square
, could write a book on my time growing up in Roker, following Forest and spending time with the lads.Cloughie1975
John Robertson
Also-‘Forest smash the Berlin Wall’ (or something similar) was an Evening Post headline after ourJapanese Sub sinks Forest...
Nottingham Forest wipe the floor with Ajax
Quarter-Final win in 1980.
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Tony Woodcock's LoveChild
Now what?
You should do.Aye that’s the one……
Going in the pub you’d be asked “got any weapons on ya?” If you answered “no“ they’d ask what do you want ?
I loved it, so many funny things happened around the square, could write a book on my time growing up in Roker, following Forest and spending time with the lads.
, could write a book on my time growing up in Roker, following Forest and spending time with the lads.
You know it can be done
Sent from another dimension. Pay close attention.
Bonfy177
LTLF MORON
I’d need to change the names to protect the innocentYou should do.
You know it can be done
Sent from another dimension. Pay close attention.
congo_red_49
Ale Ape
Speaking of Forest related graffiti, I always remember one from the (long-since demolished) public bogs in Beeston bus station.
Someone had scrawled ‘Jesus Saves!’ in pretty large letters on one of the walls. Assuming it was added later due to different pen and writing, someone else added, in red, ‘But Birtles scores on the rebound’ underneath.
Footnote: For me to remember this, it must have been there at latest in the early to mid 90s…and seeing as Birtles last played for Forest in 87, shows how infrequently public toilets got a lick of paint.
Someone had scrawled ‘Jesus Saves!’ in pretty large letters on one of the walls. Assuming it was added later due to different pen and writing, someone else added, in red, ‘But Birtles scores on the rebound’ underneath.
Footnote: For me to remember this, it must have been there at latest in the early to mid 90s…and seeing as Birtles last played for Forest in 87, shows how infrequently public toilets got a lick of paint.
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Dr Sheldon Cooper
Grenville Morris
It was that rough where I lived we often had to take a detour through the supermarket to get home. After all it was a Safeway*
* joke barely works and doesn't work at all since they all became Morrisons