Things you miss about football since you first went.

[OohBaldyBally]

Sounds like a pantiliner goal kick

Tim Carter's kicks always went into the paddocks (RIP).

 

[the flying graysons]

This. Such a shame that it's almost as if some supporters go to games wanting to Boo and be negative rather than backing the team.

This.
never ever happened at Roker back in the day.

Vast majority of the team been local or least English & not foregin mercancries who couldnt give a fuck

The majority of the team used to be jocks

 

[1hardcoresuperstar1]

Roker park ,standing in the roker end getting cold and wet.running to the car to beat traffic ,jumping turnstiles .
Seeing toilet rolls thrown on the pitch as players run out

 

[percy]

That gutteral roar that reverberated around Roker Park. Sometimes for no apparent reason.

 

[TradingPlaces]

*Sitting on barrier at bottom of Fulwell End, just to the left of the goal
*Walking up stairs in Fulwell to finally see the pitch, will never forget that sight
*Queueing up for hours on end to get tickets for big cup games
*Losing a shoe in "the cage" when was a big surge or we scored
*Local lads like Anthony Smith, Micky Gray, Martin Smith, Davy Rush in the team, people you could relate too, not like wankers we've got playing for us now.

 

[Alovesuperb]

atmosphere, standing, proper tackles and less cheating. Oh and refs who weren't the main talking point afterwards.

 

[The Exile]

You must be a canny age to be fair then mate.

I am. It wasn't necessarily true, but at least we didn't have an avalanche of evidence to the contrary. They're too daft to be able to hide it these days.

 

[Tin Soldier]

Standing, a togetherness you felt, the surges forward (f&ckin dangerous at times) the daft chants, the characters who were part and parcel of the crowd, shocking catering and 'toilet facilities' but that was part of the fun!! Basically the experience at home was on a par with the experience you tend only to touch these days on some away trips.

 

[SurreyMackem]

As a teenager I remember getting to Roker Park really early to get the perfect spot behind the goal only for someone to push infront at 3.01

 

[MalcolmX]

getting pissed in the county on a Friday night and thinking it would be canny to go to Orient/millwall/west ham etc- lets get the Tennick bus. Waking up in London at 6am on a Saturday morning with a headache

 

[Wred]

Tim Carter's kicks always went into the paddocks (RIP).

As did Joe Bolton's opponents.

 

[Gideon Gungeon]

men in butcher's coats there mate

 

[mawky brockett]

Once the baddie was real as well

Wasn't he an escaped convict on the run who went to the match

Really?!

 

[super ally]

proper 'hard but fair' tackles without getting sent off

 

[hank williams]

Really?!

Aye I'm certain

 

[BS1000]

Standing in the Fulwell
Cheap prices (including pies etc)
Ridiculously bad toilets
Blokes walking away from the match with transistor radios pressed to their ears trying to listen to the other results while everyone else tried to hear too

Never knew we had them, neither did anybody else pissing against the wall, by steps or anywhere you could find a gap.

 

[percy]

getting pissed in the county on a Friday night and thinking it would be canny to go to Orient/millwall/west ham etc- lets get the Tennick bus. Waking up in London at 6am on a Saturday morning with a headache

This for me. The way football has become so sterile depresses me tbh. Buy a ticket,sit in your seat,don't shout,don't swear,sit down. The football in itself was so much more insignificant back then. It was all about the culture. Younguns these days will never understand.

Fuck me,I'm getting old.

 

[Lambchops]

My Granda

 

[hank williams]

Never knew we had them, neither did anybody else pissing against the wall, by steps or anywhere you could find a gap.

Someone's pocket

 

[Dilligaf60]

My Big brother.
How green the grass at roker park looked under floodlights.
Knowing the lads in red and white would leave heart body and soul on the pitch.