LordStockton
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I'll start ... I was about 4 when it got knocked down
Wow not even a question I'd even considered
You do forget that some people born in the 2000's didn't - stand - on the terraces, breathe in the Bovril cigar infused air.. or watch the 4 shadowed players run across the lush green & glistening Ayresome Park pitch..
Or the 'Golden Goal 10 pence' fella, stood outside the Bob end.Talking of Ayresome....wonder what ever became.of PC Quinn!!
Lift yer feet up, see where you end up. Truly the best fairground ride in the world....I saw 1 circa 78/79. Everytime the ball went forward the crowd surged forward and I was lifted off my feet, honestly thought I was going to die.
I was 44 when we won the cup, the perfect age for it. The hooliganism really reduced the amount of games I attended early on.I went a fair amount between 1990 and 1995. Never in the Holgate, always East End. I have great memories of it, especially my first few matches, but objectively I always knew it was a crumbling sh1thole.
Can understand why people who spent their teens and 20s in it have the nostalgia they do for it. (Though surely at least some of the “atmosphere” was down to hooliganism.)
I was 21 when we won the Carling Cup though, the perfect age for it, I wouldn’t change that for anything.