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Post by insooth on Jul 11, 2021 9:10:57 GMT 1
My wife and I were on holiday in Torquay. Drove off at 5am to Kent were my sister lived and despite those old roads across country was able to get there in time to watch it. There were two lads from Rotherham in hotel and they were hoping to listen the match on a small transistor radio on the train home. I often wonder if they heard anything.
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jul 11, 2021 9:28:22 GMT 1
It's the crowd that amazes me, it's July and they all have big coats and jackets on, I can't see anyone with short sleeves on. the wife mentioned the blokes were all wearing suits and ties, it was either a big occasion and they were dressed up for the final. or that was day dress for everybody in the sixties . 1966 England v West Germany. what i noticed was 99% of the flags in those days were the Union Jack ( we stuck to the Union Jack. yet Scots always used their own St Andrews flag ) glad we now use the St George cross. On behalf of all fellow pedants can I point out it is the Union Flag, it’s only a Union Jack when flown from a warship, not in harbour, also if the flag is displayed upside down ( which to be fair I don’t think most people know which way is which) that is a distress cry or “lese Majeste” which is an insult to the crown and in theory still a crime. Putting away my pedants hat I fully agree with you it does seem odd to not see St George’s cross, given there are so many at England games nowadays, I can’t be the only one who watches the game with one eye and uses the other to read what teams and towns are on display ? Not sure when the change started either, was it after Spain in 1982 ? I remember when Robson scored in the first minute a group of fans behind the goal, the opposite end to the bulk of England’s support and they had a huge Union Huddersfield Town flag with them.
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Post by Stewpot on Jul 11, 2021 12:22:55 GMT 1
My wife and I were on holiday in Torquay. Drove off at 5am to Kent were my sister lived and despite those old roads across country was able to get there in time to watch it. There were two lads from Rotherham in hotel and they were hoping to listen the match on a small transistor radio on the train home. I often wonder if they heard anything. I guess the route is not a lot different these days. In my time living in the South West in the 90's often had to go to Portsmouth, and occasionally up to Brighton. Never worth the long detour to "find" a motorway, just plodded on using the A30 to Honiton, A35 then M27 for a brief time. Always got stuck behind a slow moving tractor or hay wagon!
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jul 11, 2021 12:32:00 GMT 1
My wife and I were on holiday in Torquay. Drove off at 5am to Kent were my sister lived and despite those old roads across country was able to get there in time to watch it. There were two lads from Rotherham in hotel and they were hoping to listen the match on a small transistor radio on the train home. I often wonder if they heard anything. I guess the route is not a lot different these days. In my time living in the South West in the 90's often had to go to Portsmouth, and occasionally up to Brighton. Never worth the long detour to "find" a motorway, just plodded on using the A30 to Honiton, A35 then M27 for a brief time. Always got stuck behind a slow moving tractor or hay wagon! Going to Plymouth Argyle for the first time in the 1980s it was M1 to Derby and then the A38 all the way,( it’s nearly 300 miles long, the longest two digit road in the U.K.) I remember one time there were 5 of us in a Ford Capri, Gawd your stint in the middle seat was purgatory, we lost 6 - nil and a car full of Plymouth fans were with us all the way to Birmingham, some drive for home games.
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Post by rphyorks on Jul 11, 2021 12:56:08 GMT 1
the wife mentioned the blokes were all wearing suits and ties, it was either a big occasion and they were dressed up for the final. or that was day dress for everybody in the sixties . 1966 England v West Germany. what i noticed was 99% of the flags in those days were the Union Jack ( we stuck to the Union Jack. yet Scots always used their own St Andrews flag ) glad we now use the St George cross. On behalf of all fellow pedants can I point out it is the Union Flag, it’s only a Union Jack when flown from a warship, not in harbour, also if the flag is displayed upside down ( which to be fair I don’t think most people know which way is which) that is a distress cry or “lese Majeste” which is an insult to the crown and in theory still a crime. Putting away my pedants hat I fully agree with you it does seem odd to not see St George’s cross, given there are so many at England games nowadays, I can’t be the only one who watches the game with one eye and uses the other to read what teams and towns are on display ? Not sure when the change started either, was it after Spain in 1982 ? I remember when Robson scored in the first minute a group of fans behind the goal, the opposite end to the bulk of England’s support and they had a huge Union Huddersfield Town flag with them. Reading up today and apparently the change to using the St George cross was on its way, due to the seeking of National identities and devolvement in the UK during the 70s. and Sir Terry Venables called for our fans to start using the SGC during 1996, especially for the England Scotland game. and this was backed by the The English FA and other bodies . I am sure if I went in the Boozer today and asked if anyone had a Union flag, most people would look at me and say " do you mean a Union Jack ". It is what we call it. also. pedants will try to tell you that you can’t call the flag the ’Union Jack’ unless it’s being flown on the bow of a ship. They’re wrong. This was confirmed first by the Admiralty, then in a Parliamentary statement by the government, back in the first decade of the 20th century. You can call it the Union Jack wherever it’s being flown. Stephen Tempest , MA Modern History, University of Oxford (1985) It is sometimes claimed that the Union Flag should be described as the Union Jack only when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From its earliest days, the Admiralty often referred to the flag – however it was used – as the Union Jack. In 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that either name could be used officially. And in 1908 the UK Parliament approved this verdict, stating that ‘the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag’. Cdr Bruce Nicolls OBE RN (Retd)
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Post by bogart on Jul 11, 2021 13:25:47 GMT 1
Watched it on a little 9 inch Pye set. Strange what rubbish one can recall.
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Post by Stewpot on Jul 11, 2021 15:05:23 GMT 1
This was where I watched it, Glympton Park Estate. Auntie and uncle plus various other assorted relations from Brighouse moved here to be on the staff of the then owner, a one E.W. Towler, who made his fortune from mining prior to the days of nationalisation. He had owned it since about 1962 I think, wonder how much he would have paid for it? My relations lived in various properties scattered over the estate and we stayed in a lodge on the drive into the estate. Uncle was a gardener, auntie was a cook and domestic at the big house! Anyway point is as young kids of 11 and 7 me and brother couldn't celebrate because there was no other soul within miles of the house. As I said on another post after tea all the grown ups buggered off to the pub, in itself a hike of about 2 miles each way! www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/05/saudi-prince-sells-cotswolds-estate-to-king-of-bahrain-for-120m
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Post by amstel on Jul 11, 2021 15:53:34 GMT 1
I watched it in a pub in Heidelberg in the heart of West Germany. From what I remember, the locals were unhappy about our 3rd goal ....
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Post by saintlyterrier on Jul 11, 2021 16:43:20 GMT 1
I was on a trek with Senior Scouts in the Spanish Pyrenees. Watched it in a bar, where most Spaniards were supporting Germany. Franco was still in charge,so it is perhaps easy to understand why.
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Post by orinoco on Jul 11, 2021 17:15:51 GMT 1
1 was 2 and a half month old so cant really rembember it!!!
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Post by covterrier on Jul 11, 2021 17:26:24 GMT 1
Remember sitting with my dad listening to the game on the back porch of our army quarter in Penang, Malaya. I was 3 and a half. One of my earliest memories
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Post by andyeastleake on Jul 11, 2021 18:11:48 GMT 1
I guess the route is not a lot different these days. In my time living in the South West in the 90's often had to go to Portsmouth, and occasionally up to Brighton. Never worth the long detour to "find" a motorway, just plodded on using the A30 to Honiton, A35 then M27 for a brief time. Always got stuck behind a slow moving tractor or hay wagon! Going to Plymouth Argyle for the first time in the 1980s it was M1 to Derby and then the A38 all the way,( it’s nearly 300 miles long, the longest two digit road in the U.K.) I remember one time there were 5 of us in a Ford Capri, Gawd your stint in the middle seat was purgatory, we lost 6 - nil and a car full of Plymouth fans were with us all the way to Birmingham, some drive for home games. TBF Shortfuse we did get one.
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jul 11, 2021 18:39:55 GMT 1
Going to Plymouth Argyle for the first time in the 1980s it was M1 to Derby and then the A38 all the way,( it’s nearly 300 miles long, the longest two digit road in the U.K.) I remember one time there were 5 of us in a Ford Capri, Gawd your stint in the middle seat was purgatory, we lost 6 - nil and a car full of Plymouth fans were with us all the way to Birmingham, some drive for home games. TBF Shortfuse we did get one. You are correct, it was an awful season, I recall manager Steve Smith saying he locked the team in the dressing room for an hour while he read the riot act, but the team coach flew past us well before the Midlands, I can’t recall the goal scorer that day but remember it was a red hot day and a steward in front of us was about 5’10”, must have been 20 stone and had a bushy beard, wool cap, army jacket and on, he must have lost a stone in sweat.
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Post by Porrohman on Jul 11, 2021 19:10:03 GMT 1
I watched it in a pub in Heidelberg in the heart of West Germany. From what I remember, the locals were unhappy about our 3rd goal .... Strange....I wonder why 🤔
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Post by 28901 on Jul 11, 2021 20:23:39 GMT 1
If they had VAR back then, I wonder if they'd have finished checking whether it was over the line or not by now? Funny but that one would have been ruled out in about 2 seconds.
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Post by carrhill on Jul 12, 2021 0:43:02 GMT 1
I was on a trek with Senior Scouts in the Spanish Pyrenees. Watched it in a bar, where most Spaniards were supporting Germany. Franco was still in charge,so it is perhaps easy to understand why. At a campsite in the Ordesa National Park?
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Post by hypotenuse on Jul 12, 2021 17:32:03 GMT 1
It's the crowd that amazes me, it's July and they all have big coats and jackets on, I can't see anyone with short sleeves on. It was terrible weather and 1966 was one of the coldest summers on record.
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Jul 12, 2021 18:32:53 GMT 1
It's the crowd that amazes me, it's July and they all have big coats and jackets on, I can't see anyone with short sleeves on. It was terrible weather and 1966 was one of the coldest summers on record. I'm going to have Google this....and it seems it was a wet year, with it being a cold winter and a wet summer
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jul 13, 2021 10:12:19 GMT 1
It was terrible weather and 1966 was one of the coldest summers on record. I'm going to have Google this....and it seems it was a wet year, with it being a cold winter and a wet summer I was born in 1963, in March and apparently that was the coldest, longest winter the U.K. had in a couple of hundred years, starting on Boxing Day with heavy snow it got down to -22 and in some areas the sea froze, lots of issues due to the snow and ice and football was badly affected, Barnsley played twice from mid December to March, the 3rd Round of the FA Cup suffered its most disruption ever with 261 postponements, Lincoln v Coventry 15 times, in Scotland Stranraer v Airdrie set a record with 33 ! It gave birth to the Pools Panel to predict results, the Shay became a temporary ice skating ring and always keen to be a trailblazer Jimmy Hill took his Coventry team to Ireland to play exhibition games including one vs Man United. It’s not clear if 20 year old girls at the Bigg Market in Newcastle were still out on the razzle in mini skirts and sleeveless tops or not ?
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Jul 15, 2021 12:16:02 GMT 1
I'm going to have Google this....and it seems it was a wet year, with it being a cold winter and a wet summer I was born in 1963, in March and apparently that was the coldest, longest winter the U.K. had in a couple of hundred years, starting on Boxing Day with heavy snow it got down to -22 and in some areas the sea froze, lots of issues due to the snow and ice and football was badly affected, Barnsley played twice from mid December to March, the 3rd Round of the FA Cup suffered its most disruption ever with 261 postponements, Lincoln v Coventry 15 times, in Scotland Stranraer v Airdrie set a record with 33 ! It gave birth to the Pools Panel to predict results, the Shay became a temporary ice skating ring and always keen to be a trailblazer Jimmy Hill took his Coventry team to Ireland to play exhibition games including one vs Man United. It’s not clear if 20 year old girls at the Bigg Market in Newcastle were still out on the razzle in mini skirts and sleeveless tops or not ? The FA Cup 3rd round was played in March in this year.
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