Photo from early 90's?

Floating about on Twitter earlier

So can spot themselves ? I'm in the top left and corner

 

Did we beat them?- Lesta the old rivals.

The Vic Road end looks so much smaller in that pic when I remember a heaving mass of yellow humanity. Although I was mainly in the Rookery.
The good ol days when could move around the ground for each half

 

I'm almost certainly somewhere in that shot, but don't ask me where.

 

A close up from the same day. I'm not in it but a couple of people who are.




The Homes of Football pics from that game and more can be found here.. https://www.homesoffootball.co.uk/watford

 

Reassuringly, fashion has pretty much stayed the same since those days.

 

Yes it was Leicester 1st April 1991

 

Looks like the programmes selling bloke at the bottom left

 

In the bobble hat? I thought that. Pwogwamss

 

Yep. Must be.
Question is if he wasn't selling programmes, who was?

 

Wolfy

 

Didn't go to all games back then but enough to know there's a 80% chance I'm somewhere around there:



Who's the scouse infiltrator in the pic below?:

 

Me too.

It was a bugger trying to move with that big red mouth circling you!

 

Remember the surges after a goal! Pretty good being up there as a young lad seeing 10,000 people converge into the front third of that stand and following safely behind for the bundle.

Unlucky if you were standing against one of the few leaning bars and got trapped there of course!

 

Also front middle - I didn't realise Eric Idle was a 'orn

 

I remember that game, I was in the old east stand with my dad that day. Think both us and Leicester were languishing near the bottom of the old division two back then. Wilko got the only goal if I remember correctly

 

Think Leicester missed a penalty as well.

 

Family stand. £1.50 a ticket. Or the upgrade to a seat in the family block for double the price. Those were the days.

 

At the far end of the scoreboard, it says '12'.
As I remember it, this indicated how many minutes of the match had gone.
From the number of people reading their programmes, this wasn't an exciting game.

 

No, wolfs had red hair and an untamed beard.

 

Didnt he mean if Watford Dave wasnt selling pwogwams then Wolfy would have been?



Anyway wasnt this Wolfy? In less wolflike days..



and wasnt he the one that used to sell peanuts on the terraces? Peanuts!!!

 

I think the clock must have counted down to kick off time.. not that i remember it doing that but it must have.

 

Oh yeah

 

Re read the thread, indeed he did mean that

 

I’m there - front, middle. There was nearly always plenty of room there in those grim days.

 

No you couldn't - that's what that yellow gate is for. You have to go a lot further back for those days.

 

I like how the areas outside the ground look almost entirely unchanged.

 

Yeah thanks for nothing for reminding me of my age ...

Early onset memory loss it's a terrible affliction

 

I imagine this is what Hornet Heaven is like, going round old games to see what stupid things you used to do...

 

Grim? .... Where were you in the seventies? Now that was grim!

I was working away exactly then (the Leicester game) and had to travel to Munich Hauptbahnhof to get our results as the only English language papers Augsburg station ever seemed to stock were USA Today and the Washington Post.

 

The seventies started off with us in the old second division, which we were always fighting relegation followed by two relegations to the bottom division followed by two promotions back to the old second division, some very grim days until Sir G.T. came and the tide turned forever!

 

No , certain the peanut seller was somone else... he had a 'nasal ' tone to his 'peanuts'. Didn't he wear a brown 'store-mans 'coat ? Certain I saw him in the Highbury Clockend as well ?,

 

Yes believe you are right.. he did indeed have a definite 'nasal' tone to his voice. I can hear him now!

 

Yes same season. Leicester game here from 51.10..




Last game for Vic terrace was vs Oxford May 93. New stand opened Sept 93 vs Notts County.