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Ten and half things you never knew about Southend

1. The Quakers (or the Society of Friends) are banned from worshipping in Southend following a riot in 1679 in which 57 people died

2. South End is so named not as commonly thought of as the Southern end of Prittlewell but as the last sounding point in the Thames Estuary. So it should be called Sound End but the locals didn't like that.

3. Roots Hall was the newest ground in England from 1955 until 1982 when Scunthorpe moved to Gladford Park

4. For a period in the 1990s Alan Curbishley and Steve Gritt were banned from signing players from any club other than Southend leading to rubbish like Keith Jones, Chris Powell and Ricky Otto turning up at the Valley.

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  • who cares?? ;-P
  • 5. Southend is twinned with Northstart in Norway.
  • 6- they have a Wimpy
  • 7.southend is a nothing club
  • 8- modern charlton greats have played for them inc Bailey and Chrissy Powell
  • 9 - one occupant of Southend Sealife Centre is an octopus with tentacles 20 metres long
  • edited February 2010
    10. Sarah from southend has herpes. apparently.
  • After an away day at Southend I travelled back to Crawley and went over the brand new QE2 bridge before it was open!
  • 11. 'Southend' was discovered in 1842 and named after its first settler, Henry South, who financed the move by selling his Cornish residence to a Scottish tribesman called John O'Groats. Pickfords handled the move.
  • Southend's famous seafood store 'Prawn to be Wild' was closed down in October 2009 after the storage of fish was discovered to be a little too wild for the health inspectors liking.
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  • [cite]Posted By: cafcdan18[/cite]6- they have a Wimpy

    They also have a 'seafood in a bun' equivalent in Clifftown Road called a Shrimpy.
  • Arthur Daley left his car keys on Southend Pier.
  • 12. Mick Shannon is currently their MP, the latest in a long line of former hairdressers/former legends to hold the position, as he succeeded Jimmy Rimmer, Gary Sprake and for a short time due to a mistake on the polling forms, Roy of the Rovers
  • [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]
    4. For a period in the 1990s Alan Curbishley and Steve Gritt were banned from signing players from any club other than Southend leading to rubbish like Keith Jones, Chris Powell and Ricky Otto turning up at the Valley.

    For one game around that time ( I think it was Southend away to wolves but I don't have the programs to hand) the first four names on the Southend team sheet were

    1. Simon Royce
    2. Gary Poole
    3. Chris Powel
    4. Kieth Jones

    the number 5 I think was a guy called Edwards who we never got around to signing. (I think the squad that day also included Otto and Jason Lee).


    13 The official but rarely used name for Southend is Jimmy Seed end.
  • Charismatic chairman Vic Jobson caused outrage amongst Southen supporters in 2000 when strikers Ben Abbey and Tes Bramble were sold to finance his wifes enhancement surgery.

    Jobson was quoted as saying that if he was going to pay for two great big tits up front then he was going to make sure he got some enjoyment out of it.
  • Pensioner Betty McFarlane won the UK's biggest single slots pay-out of £2.5 million pounds in Southend on March 12th 2008. However, Bettys joy was short lived after spending the vast majority of her fortune trying to win a SpongeBob Squarepants out of the crane machine.
  • edited February 2010
    Southend’s first ground was The Kursaal. They only found out that this literally meant The Cursed Hall when the team went on a five season losing streak. The Kursaal is now the European headquarters of Bowlingo.

    Roots Hall takes its it’s name from the local Australian community who like to sneak into the ground when the pubs have shut to root any Sheilas they’ve picked up. The poor playing surface is attributable to the number of ugly Bruces who are reduced to making glory holes on the pitch.

    Southend only developed to town status with the invention of the steam locomotive in 1933. Its original name was Terminus.

    Southend’s original football club was Southend Athletic. The club folded when their captain, manager and three major benefactors were killed in suspicious circumstances. Nobody was charged, but it was later revealed that the police’s main suspect was Charlton chairman Albert Gliksten whose ambitious plan for Charlton was to ensure the clubs place as the “number one team in the country called Athletic”. Luckily for Dave Whelan, Gliksten passed away soon after the war.

    Albert Gliksten was also Chairman of Southend United and once sponsored at Gorilla a Bristol Zoo. This masterstroke of marketing genius helped ensure that for thirty years Southend’s crowds never rose above Conference levels.

    Counter to the history and traditions of “10½ Things” one of these stories is actually true. To find out which one, click here: http://tinyurl.com/ybotojy
  • Carl Leaburn scored an overhead kick against Southend in the 1991/1992 season.

    I, an 8 year old boy at the time, was pushed over by a Southend fan after the game.
  • If you google "Shrimpers" you get 117,000 hits, whereas if you google "Addicks" you get 299,000. Using the Duckworth Lewis method and rounding hits down to the nearest 100000 and adding one for the home team, the score tonight should be 2-2.
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