[pirate1957]

Back in the seventies when the frist team were away, me and my dad used to go to eastville and watch the reserves in the old Football Combination. The atmosphere was really informal and it was the same faces every game so you got to know a lot of people.
It was a good way of seeing First Division players who were recovering from injury or players who were to become big names in a couple of seasons time.
I was a north enclosure boy and if anyone else went to these games, do u remember Harry? A little old guy who wore a trilby hat, always had a rolled up newspaper that he used as a megaphone and a horn that he was always squeezing

[ClevedonGas]

You couldnt help but hear him, not only at reserve games but also first team games.

As was to be expected, what he used to shout was so funny and of course slightly behind the action on the pitch. He used to drive lots of older people around me up the wall, as particularly if the game was poor and the crowd quiet you really didnt want to hear him going on and on.

Mind you these days theres a guy behind me now who talks the same level of rubbish out loud but doesnt need a rolled up newspaper.

[Brizblue]

I used to attend a lot of reserve team games but I used to stand in the south stand enclosure.

I can remember a very young Ray Wilkins and his brother Graham playing for Chelsea.

[SpringWasInnocent]

Didn't they used to call him "Lemmer" or something ? I remember him, he was bloody non stop with that rolled up copy of the Mirror or whatever it was. I think is favourite chants were "Win Bonus Rovers", "Come On Rovers", "Win Bonus", "Shoot...Shoooooot" and that used to be when we had the ball around the halfway line ! ...

[stephenbyrne]

Brizblue, on 08 February 2010 - 12:48 AM, said:

I used to attend a lot of reserve team games but I used to stand in the south stand enclosure.

I can remember a very young Ray Wilkins and his brother Graham playing for Chelsea.

I saw Ray Wilkins interviewed last night after the Chelsea/Arsenal game and remember seeing him play against Rovers at Stamford Bridge on New Year's Day 1976; my grandfather and my dad took me. I believe Wilkins was seventeen - it was an FA Cup-tie (a 1-1 draw) and Rovers brought Chelsea back to Eastville for a relay (the replay was an evening game, so I couldn't go, being too young).

[Carmarthengas]

I used to go there late sixties, I remember there always seemed to be lots of goals in these matches. I was a Muller road ender.

[T904]

The description of the chap in the Trilby fits with a man I used to see in the South Enclosure when I started going in 1964/65. He was there for at least 1965/66 as well.

He definitely used to shout 'Shoot' through a rolled up paper as we crossed the half way line.

[SANDY ALLAN]

T904, on 14 February 2010 - 11:07 AM, said:

The description of the chap in the Trilby fits with a man I used to see in the South Enclosure when I started going in 1964/65. He was there for at least 1965/66 as well.

He definitely used to shout 'Shoot' through a rolled up paper as we crossed the half way line.

He was a real character ....now manager of Crystal Palace in administration and shouts "shoot the linesman" now !!!!
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[Wise Old Gas]

SANDY ALLAN, on 15 February 2010 - 06:09 PM, said:

T904, on 14 February 2010 - 11:07 AM, said:

The description of the chap in the Trilby fits with a man I used to see in the South Enclosure when I started going in 1964/65. He was there for at least 1965/66 as well.

He definitely used to shout 'Shoot' through a rolled up paper as we crossed the half way line.

He was a real character ....now manager of Crystal Palace in administration and shouts "shoot the linesman" now !!!!
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I remember him well. There used to be some good crowds at the Reserve games back then. I used to really enjoy them.