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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 10.36pm
Being taken to the Palace social club for midweek games by my older brother. It used to be opposite where Saintsbury's is now where the car park is. Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 10.36pm

Being taken to the Palace social club for midweek games by my older brother.
It used to be opposite where Saintsbury's is now where the car park is.

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 10.42pm
Always had a fry up in there for midweek games. And there was table football and a little stage for turns. Bloody great days they were. Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 10.42pm

Always had a fry up in there for midweek games.
And there was table football and a little stage for turns.
Bloody great days they were.

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 10.47pm
Or did I dream it? Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 10.47pm

Or did I dream it?

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.01pm
Originally posted by Mo Sizlak Being taken to the Palace social club for midweek games by my older brother. It used to be opposite where Saintsbury's is now where the car park is. Used to go in there ! I seem to recall the 'Table football' Remember going to a 'Gentlemans Evening' at this venue !!!! Edited by Willo (19 Feb 2017 11.02pm)
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Willo

South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.01pm

Originally posted by Mo Sizlak

Being taken to the Palace social club for midweek games by my older brother.
It used to be opposite where Saintsbury's is now where the car park is.

Used to go in there !
I seem to recall the 'Table football'
Remember going to a 'Gentlemans Evening' at this venue !!!!

Edited by Willo (19 Feb 2017 11.02pm)

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 11.03pm
Another memory from my childhood is walking up to the ground and seeing either a BBC lorry or an LWT one. You then knew we'd either be on MOTD on Saturday night or The Big Match at Sunday dinner time (or lunch time as posh people called it), just after University Challenge. It seems like nothing now in these days of wall to wall TV coverage but back then it was almost magical. Especially if you were a kid. Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 11.03pm

Another memory from my childhood is walking up to the ground and seeing either a BBC lorry or an LWT one.
You then knew we'd either be on MOTD on Saturday night or The Big Match at Sunday dinner time (or lunch time as posh people called it), just after University Challenge.

It seems like nothing now in these days of wall to wall TV coverage but back then it was almost magical.
Especially if you were a kid.

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.12pm
Watching Burridge in the pre-match 'Warm-Up' walking on his hands ! And goalkeepers making a mark on the turf with their boots in line with the posts to assist them in getting their angles right.
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Willo

South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.12pm

Watching Burridge in the pre-match 'Warm-Up' walking on his hands !
And goalkeepers making a mark on the turf with their boots in line with the posts to assist them in getting their angles right.

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 11.14pm
Originally posted by Willo Used to go in there ! I seem to recall the 'Table football' Remember going to a 'Gentlemans Evening' at this venue !!!! Edited by Willo (19 Feb 2017 11.02pm) I always insisted that my brother or one of his mates played me at table football. Looking back, I was a horrible kid. Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 11.14pm

Originally posted by Willo

Used to go in there !
I seem to recall the 'Table football'
Remember going to a 'Gentlemans Evening' at this venue !!!!

Edited by Willo (19 Feb 2017 11.02pm)

I always insisted that my brother or one of his mates played me at table football.
Looking back, I was a horrible kid.

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 11.23pm
Being put down the front of the New Stand as a boy and banging on the advertising hoardings in time to Glad All Over with your fists. f*ing hell, I'm old! Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....**
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 11.23pm

Being put down the front of the New Stand as a boy and banging on the advertising hoardings in time to Glad All Over with your fists.

f***ing hell, I'm old!

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.23pm
Originally posted by Mo Sizlak I always insisted that my brother or one of his mates played me at table football. Looking back, I was a horrible kid. I Don't recall playing 'Table Football' in there. I remember the 'Gentlemans Evening' though !!!! I seem to recall a rather rotund gentleman who used to stand at the door of this club - think he used to be referred to as "Wallflower".
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Willo

South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.23pm

Originally posted by Mo Sizlak

I always insisted that my brother or one of his mates played me at table football.
Looking back, I was a horrible kid.

I Don't recall playing 'Table Football' in there.
I remember the 'Gentlemans Evening' though !!!!
I seem to recall a rather rotund gentleman who used to stand at the door of this club - think he used to be referred to as "Wallflower".

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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.28pm
Recall the matchday programme containing that day's fixtures with a letter corresponding to each game EG A. Millwall v Fulham, B.Chelsea v Tottenham etc etc. There used to be boards attached to where the advertising hordes are normally situated with letters A,B,C etc etc - at Half time, somebody used to slot in the scores EG Board A 2,1 which would indicate the score pertaining to Match A ! How times have changed.
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Willo

South coast - west of Brighton. 19 Feb 17 11.28pm

Recall the matchday programme containing that day's fixtures with a letter corresponding to each game EG
A. Millwall v Fulham, B.Chelsea v Tottenham etc etc.

There used to be boards attached to where the advertising hordes are normally situated with letters A,B,C etc etc - at Half time, somebody used to slot in the scores EG Board A 2,1 which would indicate the score pertaining to Match A ! How times have changed.

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 11.35pm
Originally posted by Spiderman and then buying the Evening Standard Classified outside Thornton Heath Station I remember The Standard on the way home. And getting fish and chips for dinner at Melfort Road fish bar. Best fish and chips ever! Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 11.35pm

Originally posted by Spiderman

and then buying the Evening Standard Classified outside Thornton Heath Station

I remember The Standard on the way home.
And getting fish and chips for dinner at Melfort Road fish bar.
Best fish and chips ever!

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Mo Sizlak 19 Feb 17 11.39pm
I think it may have been The London Standard back then. But I'm probably wrong. Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

19 Feb 17 11.39pm

I think it may have been The London Standard back then.
But I'm probably wrong.

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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