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"courtesy of westand" who was clearly in the south stand judging by the pics!

Apparently, his name is meant to be interpreted as "we stand", not "west stand".

Dr.B has it right, before decamping to the SS, myself and freind used to stand in front of the old West stand.

Those were the days

Ah yes!!

I stand corrected!!

No problem with having tops on your bottles then

Not a problem,Hideo, How were you to know..?

Just complaints from the Media scrum in the Lower West when brollies were raised.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009:01:13:16:43:37 by westand.

Touchy: there wasn't a problem with bottle tops on Sunday either. Mrs Doc bought a bottle of water (fecking £1.70 mind you!) and was allowed out into the SS, still with the top on the bottle!]

Bet you thought you'd never see the likes of those days again eh?

Wow, crazy.

Just goes to show WE ARE MOVING FORWARD!

Teachers must be gettin paid too much if you can afford £1.70 for a bottle of water though.

I didn't pay for it! Mrs Doc's disposable income is her own private kingdom and she will defend it with her life.

You're married aren't you? What's yours is hers and vice versa.

In theory, yes; in practice, no.

Which bit is theoretical - the marriage or the economics?

The latter!

It generally works fine, but only one way

Joint bank accounts etc. for us, makes more sense.

Photo 4 clearly shows that the corporate bit is just about empty. What happened after the apparent sell out in previous week? Flash in the pan looks like. Clearly all the families realised that £50 a head for a buffet and ticket is overpriced.

Got bored with the game perhaps, and popped out to the bar to avoid the crush----

Umpteen years ago I used to enter the ground by the wooden gate just north of the east stand. Tickets handed in at a little wooden booth. I stood right there at the hoardings but the trouble was that the sun blinded you (there was nowt on the west side to block it)
I moved round some time later to in front of the "west stand" but the lower west complained if you had a brolly as westand says.
If I had to be home sharp I would leave the ground 10 minutes before the end and stand on the grassy knowle which was in the south east corner. Great view inside the ground from there.Those were the days. Leave home with a fiver in your pocket, buy your ticket, have a couple of pints, fish and chips on the way home and still have some change for the evening paper. Or is my mind playing tricks again ?

I'm not sure, I wasn't around in the fifties.

I can remember a Gosforth match when the temporary stand was a flat bed trailer.

South west restaurant in corporate seemed full, but they had fewer tables in I think.

north end looked empty on that photo!!