Mate, I’d just turned 15 for that game in 1991. Was in there early playing pool with our lot when the strippers first come out. I’d only just started getting into boozers and drinking and felt fast tracked that day to adulthood. Said to my pal last night i remember a girl giving some skinheads head a polish and another giving someone’s glasses a very unhygienic clean. Then after the game with all the trouble (I think with Arsenal). Crazy what we used to get up to as teens.
My lad at 14 1/2 will be just shy age wise as I was that day when we go there in a few weeks. He’ll get a Fanta in a quiet friendly pub and then a Greggs if he’s lucky!
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
Mate, I’d just turned 15 for that game in 1991. Was in there early playing pool with our lot when the strippers first come out. I’d only just started getting into boozers and drinking and felt fast tracked that day to adulthood. Said to my pal last night i remember a girl giving some skinheads head a polish and another giving someone’s glasses a very unhygienic clean. Then after the game with all the trouble (I think with Arsenal). Crazy what we used to get up to as teens.
My lad at 14 1/2 will be just shy age wise as I was that day when we go there in a few weeks. He’ll get a Fanta in a quiet friendly pub and then a Greggs if he’s lucky!
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
No you're not, went there to knock off the ground on a Friday night for a nil nil against Scunthorpe. 2 years later, the sending off/penalties game
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
Quite correct, seem to remember a 1-1 draw Alan Hart and a lot of trouble mid seventies.
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
Southend and Tranmere both used to do that, as both are in the shadow of bigger clubs so tried to avoid fixture clashes.
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
When I worked at Allder's at Basildon one of my colleagues always carefully scheduled when he worked the late shift on a Friday, so that he was free to slope off to Roots Hall.
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
Would love this to be on the Friday night, proper piss up.
Good club Southend, shouldn't be where they are.
Weirdly I have vague memory that Southend often used to play their home games on a Friday night back in the day. Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
Correct, Stockport and Tranmere often did as well. **Edit, @killerandflash beat me to it.
Was it Kyle Reid who scored a late winner there once?
Yes... Yes it was... I was there too
It finally broke the curse of not seeing us win on the road between that game, and our 1-0 win at Anfield... I hadn't gone to large amounts of away games in that period, but I'd been to enough for it to be bloody annoying, including a 2-2 draw at Plymouth where we scored two late goals to go 2-1 up, only for them to equalise at the death.
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My lad at 14 1/2 will be just shy age wise as I was that day when we go there in a few weeks. He’ll get a Fanta in a quiet friendly pub and then a Greggs if he’s lucky!
Anybody else remember that or am I going senile?
**Edit, @killerandflash beat me to it.
It finally broke the curse of not seeing us win on the road between that game, and our 1-0 win at Anfield... I hadn't gone to large amounts of away games in that period, but I'd been to enough for it to be bloody annoying, including a 2-2 draw at Plymouth where we scored two late goals to go 2-1 up, only for them to equalise at the death.