Photo from early 90's?

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by With A Smile, Oct 20, 2017.

  1. With A Smile

    With A Smile First Team

    Floating about on Twitter earlier

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

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  2. Sahorn

    Sahorn Reservist

    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 :)
     
  3. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

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

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

  5. muzz

    muzz First Year Pro

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

    NorthHarrowHornet Academy Graduate

    Yes it was Leicester 1st April 1991
     
  7. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Looks like the programmes selling bloke at the bottom left
     
  8. Abso

    Abso First Year Pro

    In the bobble hat? I thought that. Pwogwamss
     
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  9. kVA

    kVA Reservist

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

    iamofwfc Squad Player

    Wolfy
     
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  11. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

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

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

     
  12. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Me too.

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

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    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!
     
  14. Abso

    Abso First Year Pro

  15. Vicarage Road

    Vicarage Road Reservist

    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
     
  16. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Think Leicester missed a penalty as well.
     
  17. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    The early nineties are so the eighties
     
  18. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

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

    Jimmy Armchair Academy Graduate

    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.
     
  20. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    No, wolfs had red hair and an untamed beard.
     
  21. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

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



    Anyway wasnt this Wolfy? In less wolflike days..

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

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

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

    kVA Reservist

    Oh yeah
     
  24. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Re read the thread, indeed he did mean that
     
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  25. Scalexman

    Scalexman Reservist

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

    Forzainglese Reservist

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

    ITK platypus Squad Player

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

    Sahorn Reservist

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

    Early onset memory loss it's a terrible affliction
     
  29. Bloke

    Bloke Reservist

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

    Godfather bricklayer extraordinaire

    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.
     
  31. Teide1

    Teide1 Squad Player

    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!
     
  32. al_lotment

    al_lotment Academy Graduate

    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 ?,
     
  33. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Was this the season we stayed up on the final day at Oxford (or certainly final away game) winning 1-0?

    I remember seeing the terrace when I first started going in 1992 but didn't last much longer don't think...
     
  34. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

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

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    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.
     

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