Post by londonranger on Jun 25, 2009 0:02:27 GMT
Well for openers, imagine the Ellerslie rd. stand. Also the Loft without a stand. The Ell. stand was the grandstand. Has been improved since then. You just paid your shilling I think, and got the seats. Higher up was a bit more money. Most of the time though we stood on the terrace at the loftus rd. end. Getting in there was one turnstyle cant remember how much.
We always beat Bournemouth at home. We were in the 3rd division south. Played teams like Bristol City Bristol rovers, Aldershot,
Clapton Orient, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Sarfend. Now during war games were on Thursday night and Sat. by then heavy bombing had stopped except for occasional Stukka down Craven park Rd, these were the Nazi dive bombers and would fly down over the high streets and machine gun us. They avoided the radar and the sirens., and the Doodle Bugs, the V2 rockets.. You never knew when one of those were coming but we never saw one at Loftus Rd.
At the matches many Rs players were in army. We would borrow from other teams. In goal was Harry Brown or Swinfell, remember big chunky Ted. Reay and Arthur Jefferson..The centre-half Alf Ridyard would take out his false teeth and give to referee. Park wasnt that full as I remember. We moved the ball around a lot won a lot of games.
going to night games with dad was best. Used the big old heavy brown football, which we used in school.
Thats why reg was better, much harder to control catch and punch over bar, Needed two hands. Reg Allen came back in 45 and the team was built up.
The other two sides of pitch were mud piles, may have been a wall at school end. In 47 when we finished 2nd to Cardiff, abou two rows of fans stood on the mudpile where the S. Africa stand is now. The Loft end terrace for these two years were filled.Programmes one page, for 3p. Uniforms thick blue and white hoops with white shorts, blue socks with a white cuff. Very friendly, happy atmosphere. Forwards were fast and attacking game. Got autographs, McEwen r. wing very friendly. Sgt heathcote scored goals, have to see if I have any old programmes left.
After game bought hot chestnuts in a bag. remember joy when we won, and a draw was bad, because we were a strong team.
Very few vendors, no thugs, even v millwall. One thing cant remember if we had numbers on our shirts or not, will check that out.
Thanks for asking, if I think of more will add.
Oh in 48 we led whole year. Place was packed. Cannot remember attendances or capacity. But very loud and happy. We even held Derby county to a 1-1 draw at home in cup. Derby were a Ist Div side and strong. but we lost the replay when Regs arm was broken in game.
then there was no bench, no substitutes.
We always beat Bournemouth at home. We were in the 3rd division south. Played teams like Bristol City Bristol rovers, Aldershot,
Clapton Orient, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Sarfend. Now during war games were on Thursday night and Sat. by then heavy bombing had stopped except for occasional Stukka down Craven park Rd, these were the Nazi dive bombers and would fly down over the high streets and machine gun us. They avoided the radar and the sirens., and the Doodle Bugs, the V2 rockets.. You never knew when one of those were coming but we never saw one at Loftus Rd.
At the matches many Rs players were in army. We would borrow from other teams. In goal was Harry Brown or Swinfell, remember big chunky Ted. Reay and Arthur Jefferson..The centre-half Alf Ridyard would take out his false teeth and give to referee. Park wasnt that full as I remember. We moved the ball around a lot won a lot of games.
going to night games with dad was best. Used the big old heavy brown football, which we used in school.
Thats why reg was better, much harder to control catch and punch over bar, Needed two hands. Reg Allen came back in 45 and the team was built up.
The other two sides of pitch were mud piles, may have been a wall at school end. In 47 when we finished 2nd to Cardiff, abou two rows of fans stood on the mudpile where the S. Africa stand is now. The Loft end terrace for these two years were filled.Programmes one page, for 3p. Uniforms thick blue and white hoops with white shorts, blue socks with a white cuff. Very friendly, happy atmosphere. Forwards were fast and attacking game. Got autographs, McEwen r. wing very friendly. Sgt heathcote scored goals, have to see if I have any old programmes left.
After game bought hot chestnuts in a bag. remember joy when we won, and a draw was bad, because we were a strong team.
Very few vendors, no thugs, even v millwall. One thing cant remember if we had numbers on our shirts or not, will check that out.
Thanks for asking, if I think of more will add.
Oh in 48 we led whole year. Place was packed. Cannot remember attendances or capacity. But very loud and happy. We even held Derby county to a 1-1 draw at home in cup. Derby were a Ist Div side and strong. but we lost the replay when Regs arm was broken in game.
then there was no bench, no substitutes.