The Hills are alive.......................

...................with the sound of broken BFC legs fans.

Don't know what made me think of this but pre 1990s, the Ponty was not at all as we know it today. All standing and the entrance to get in was - well - hazardous to say the least. You had to scale a mud heap of an hill to get to the top and into the Ponty. In winter it used to freeze up, particularly when it snowed (very often in those winters) ............. and I used to pee miself watching fans before and after the game slip and roll down that hill.

 

remember that well

also remember when they built a propper ramp and fencing to guide you in and out.</p>

on a night match, when you walked through the gap in the wall onto the ponty it was a tremendous sight. I don't know whybut the pitch always looked greener and lusher in them days. Maybe it was the old floodlights that did it.</p>

 

RE: remember that well

The grass was definately greener then ........isn't it always!

I also remember being able to walk all the way round to the Spion Kop (North Stand) and mingle with away fans.........until the late 70s taht is when you would have had to have had a death wish particularly when we were playing the likes of Brad City.

 

as a kid i would stand on the steps in middle of the brewery stand and wait until they tossed up

and then sprint round the back to the end we were kicking in to

 

RE: as a kid i would stand on the steps in middle of the brewery stand and wait until they tossed up

The Brewery Stand was of course replaced by the East Stand - but as I remember the back of the Brewery Stand seemed to be yet another Hazardous Hill - but now it's quite an impressive wide and long flat car park. How did they do that?

 

dunno

maybe all the pissrunning from under the stand levelled it out.</p>

the brewery stand bogs must have been the least used in the whole of the football league</p>

 

RE: dunno

The football in the early 80s was that exciting you wouldn't have gone for fear of missing a Glavin hat trick!

 

gave up doing the run round the back for that reason nt