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
84/85ish i had my best ever kicking outside paisley gilmour st wasnt many of us down probably got a bit cocky and had some fun before and during the game, unfortuantly most went home by bus/car and about 20 of us went for the train, all i remember is passing davie hays bar (im sure) going through/under a tunnel or bridge and coming out if front of the station, looked up and across a sq or carpark?, and heaps of locals just came screaming down on us, ended up curled around a huge plant pot. old school at its best .... for various reasons i think i only ever went to love st once more after that, a proper ground
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wasnt many of us down probably got a bit cocky and had some fun before and during the game, unfortuantly most went home by bus/car and about 20 of us went for the train, all i remember is passing davie hays bar (im sure) going through/under a tunnel or bridge and coming out if front of the station, looked up and across a sq or carpark?, and heaps of locals just came screaming down on us, ended up curled around a huge plant pot. old school at its best .... for various reasons i think i only ever went to love st once more after that, a proper ground