Things you miss from yesteryear at Oakwell

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I wanna compile a list of the little, odd and quirky things that us of a certain age can remember at Oakwell.

The first one that springs to mind is that trolly thing they used wheel around the perimeter track in front of Ponty End selling crisps, sweets etc complete with tea urn!

C'mon. What's yours?

 

Seeing the new kit for the first time when they ran out at the first home game

Buying bags of random programmes ftom the shop

Huge badges with the players on

Man who used to take his dog or did I imagine that one

 

Your dad taking milk crates so you could stand up and see at ponty end!

 

Still miss the social club, every match I look at the empty corner between Ponty and West Stand and sigh.

 

The old club shop in the west stand. The size of a broom cupboard! Served by shirley!

 

Going into the social club for coach tickets.

 

The clap clap song we used to come out to!

 

Saw his thread on twitter so thought wagon wheel trolley and that's the thing you say first, ha.

Allowed to go under turnstiles
Allowed to sit on the wall West lower
One of only two disabled stands in the country
Old man next to you West upper smoking a pipe - think Oakwell c1990 when smell one

 

All the old boys in the Upper West throwing their hired seat cushions at the ref when he'd had a stinker (every other match)

 

funnyfella n Liverpool must be if my era cos I remember the verysame

 

Old men taking their dogs. The massive button badges, the proper ones not the plaggy disc jobs. Norman giving us sweets behind the dugout. 30.000+ crowds.

 

Standing behind the goal we are kicking into - both halves
Running down the terrace when we score
Zigger, zagger,
Sea of **** underneath the brewery stand
Marching band music at half time
paying ten bob to get in and then wander around inside the ground, to stand wherever I liked, all for same price.
That ramp out of the back of the ponty
Dust clouds sweeping across from the spion kop muck stack

 

Kids climbing to top of those trees on Ponty/Brewery corner to see for nowt!

 

toby knocking the coppers hat off at the bottom of the tunnel

 

haha, those red cushions, the 70's-80's executive lounge equivalent

 

I would go with that, many a times I would decide to go to an away game at the last minute, nip down to the social club then wait there waiting to be given the nod that there was a spare seat, usually at the side of the drunkest bloke there

 

Trying to predict where the roof would piss in water on Ponty.

 

We've probably met...:smile:

 

if you went to a midweek away match at roker park many years ago, tha owes me some dosh for dry cleaning