Quote: dylan wrote in post #27the holte end is / was biggest free standing I think.
Pity they can't fill it.............. UncleAlbert to the thread please.
Here I am. The Holte End was the largest behind the goal stand and it held 28000. The last game it had standing was against Liverpool in I think 1994. Admittedly it's not full very often now.
some cracking pictures here gents,really jogs the mind to how good it used to be.some of my favourite memories are my whole family in the eighties going to love street to watch st mirren v rangers.must have been about twenty of us met up and went to the game with me and my cousin being the only weans.id have been around 6 or 7 and he was a year older.around half of us would be going in the st mirren end (the old north bank) including my father, and the rest of my uncles taking me in the rangers end.magical times when you were that size.getting lifted over,getting a program, the chewing gum and macaroon seller wandering the stand.always remember the wee blue disability motors parked behind the goals.cracking times to watch football not like the sanitised watered down money driven shite of today
Quote: court wrote in post #60some cracking pictures here gents,really jogs the mind to how good it used to be.some of my favourite memories are my whole family in the eighties going to love street to watch st mirren v rangers.must have been about twenty of us met up and went to the game with me and my cousin being the only weans.id have been around 6 or 7 and he was a year older.around half of us would be going in the st mirren end (the old north bank) including my father, and the rest of my uncles taking me in the rangers end.magical times when you were that size.getting lifted over,getting a program, the chewing gum and macaroon seller wandering the stand.always remember the wee blue disability motors parked behind the goals.cracking times to watch football not like the sanitised watered down money driven shite of today
went to love street in about 1984/85 for a school boy international. lad from our school was playing for england against scotland, played a school from up there on the morning before going to the game, dont know if it was being a young lad but seemed to be a biggish ground back then?? or one of the ends seemed big. havent got a clue what the crowd was, remember standing in i think the main stand though. still got the match programme from the game. happy times, proper football grounds.
Quote: court wrote in post #60some cracking pictures here gents,really jogs the mind to how good it used to be.some of my favourite memories are my whole family in the eighties going to love street to watch st mirren v rangers.must have been about twenty of us met up and went to the game with me and my cousin being the only weans.id have been around 6 or 7 and he was a year older.around half of us would be going in the st mirren end (the old north bank) including my father, and the rest of my uncles taking me in the rangers end.magical times when you were that size.getting lifted over,getting a program, the chewing gum and macaroon seller wandering the stand.always remember the wee blue disability motors parked behind the goals.cracking times to watch football not like the sanitised watered down money driven shite of today
went to love street in about 1984/85 for a school boy international. lad from our school was playing for england against scotland, played a school from up there on the morning before going to the game, dont know if it was being a young lad but seemed to be a biggish ground back then?? or one of the ends seemed big. havent got a clue what the crowd was, remember standing in i think the main stand though. still got the match programme from the game. happy times, proper football grounds.
it was a cracking ground.think it probably held around 28000 then.you could stand down in the bottom of the main stand and also had a small terrace to your right hand side joined on to the main stand.it was as you say a proper football ground,not like the wee diddy park they have now
Quote: court wrote in post #60some cracking pictures here gents,really jogs the mind to how good it used to be.some of my favourite memories are my whole family in the eighties going to love street to watch st mirren v rangers.must have been about twenty of us met up and went to the game with me and my cousin being the only weans.id have been around 6 or 7 and he was a year older.around half of us would be going in the st mirren end (the old north bank) including my father, and the rest of my uncles taking me in the rangers end.magical times when you were that size.getting lifted over,getting a program, the chewing gum and macaroon seller wandering the stand.always remember the wee blue disability motors parked behind the goals.cracking times to watch football not like the sanitised watered down money driven shite of today
went to love street in about 1984/85 for a school boy international. lad from our school was playing for england against scotland, played a school from up there on the morning before going to the game, dont know if it was being a young lad but seemed to be a biggish ground back then?? or one of the ends seemed big. havent got a clue what the crowd was, remember standing in i think the main stand though. still got the match programme from the game. happy times, proper football grounds.
it was a cracking ground.think it probably held around 28000 then.you could stand down in the bottom of the main stand and also had a small terrace to your right hand side joined on to the main stand.it was as you say a proper football ground,not like the wee diddy park they have now
do you know the name of the boozer behind the away end at love street? Had a great afternoon in there a few years back
A view from the old Stretford Paddock looking out towards the United Road, J and K Stand and the Scoreboard Paddock. When i started going we always got tickets in the K.
The great Stretford End, been in the modern Stretford a few times, but it will never be back to its old self unless something drastic happens to modern football.
love them old grounds when it was an adventure going football used to love it back then, funny thing hated getting up for school/work back then but never missed a meet for football.
Great pics was a shame to see where I experience so much left to decay. Took great pleasure though in watching the staff nurse remind the doctor he had other patients, As he reminised about the North railway into the ground. Brilliant. He was loving his moment....
Quote: court wrote in post #60some cracking pictures here gents,really jogs the mind to how good it used to be.some of my favourite memories are my whole family in the eighties going to love street to watch st mirren v rangers.must have been about twenty of us met up and went to the game with me and my cousin being the only weans.id have been around 6 or 7 and he was a year older.around half of us would be going in the st mirren end (the old north bank) including my father, and the rest of my uncles taking me in the rangers end.magical times when you were that size.getting lifted over,getting a program, the chewing gum and macaroon seller wandering the stand.always remember the wee blue disability motors parked behind the goals.cracking times to watch football not like the sanitised watered down money driven shite of today
went to love street in about 1984/85 for a school boy international. lad from our school was playing for england against scotland, played a school from up there on the morning before going to the game, dont know if it was being a young lad but seemed to be a biggish ground back then?? or one of the ends seemed big. havent got a clue what the crowd was, remember standing in i think the main stand though. still got the match programme from the game. happy times, proper football grounds.
it was a cracking ground.think it probably held around 28000 then.you could stand down in the bottom of the main stand and also had a small terrace to your right hand side joined on to the main stand.it was as you say a proper football ground,not like the wee diddy park they have now
do you know the name of the boozer behind the away end at love street? Had a great afternoon in there a few years back
depends how far you are going back mate.you had the bob in/stringfellows but it was most probably the cottage arms which shutdown last year.good wee scheme pub that was regularly used by away fans
Quote: nefc wrote in post #73if you want the definition of a shit new ground, readings is it
I see reading and raise you Millwall. The New Den is a fucking dreadful stadium even if its the one I visit most. To be honest I can't think of a new ground I've liked. Saw camden yards baseball park in Baltimore and that was impressive despite only being 15 years or so old.
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