Things you remember when you started going to Hillsborough

[Guest Garryswfcowl72]

Was thinking about old things I remember when I was a lad at Hillsborough. always rememember the alphabet signs on The north & south with the latest scores looking on the back of the programmes to see how blunts were going on this was long before scoreboards obviously . Also the teams coming out separately .teams having only one sub .keepers without gloves .what are you memories of going to Hillsborough when you was younger ?

[Buddy Repperton]

I remember enjoying going there!

[Owls-Fan]

I remember a guy smoking behind me and he burnt a hole in the back of my favourite t-shirt.  Happier times 

[Mr Farrell]

How green the pitch was.

 

How smokey the ground was.

 

How sunny the North stand always got.

 

How squashed it got standing on the kop.

 

 

[wiltonowl]

The big open spaces on the uncovered Kop.

Didn't matter if there was a 12k crowd or 30k crowd ,you stood with your mates and certain characters allways meant there was a good to great atmosphere.

[alan48]

1956 - being lifted over the turnstiles by my Dad . Into the old wooden north stand . Wondering who kicked that big golden ball into the gable on the south stand . Wondering what all the fuss was about when we scored - against Villa - think we won 3 - 2 ..Then being somewhat scared by thousands of people all trying to get out at the same time . Funny how you get hooked on things that turn out to give you more lows than highs . Still there's always hope . 

Stay in, stay safe

[Nut]

The sign on the front of the kop. Walking down the tunnel at the side of the kop then seeing the pitch for the first time, bathed in sunshine and all lush and green at the beginning of the season. The old scoreboard at the top of the kop, the early seventies shirt without stripes, Peter Mellor's blonde hair (Fulham goalkeeper) the programmes with the "football review' free magazine inside,  walking through the five aches and seeing the ground lit up for a night match, the smell of cigars and Bovril.

[Mr Farrell]

How bad Police horse poo smells.

[lanzaroteowl]

Waiting for the number 17 bus at Page Hall with my mates. Seeing all the same characters get on it along the way. Stood on the Leppings Lane trying to look both cool and hard at 13.

[Guest The Claw]

Walking up the ramp then through the arch into the ground on the Kop holding my dads hand - Fikin brilliant

[Bakewell Owl]

an old bloke on the Kop just behind us who had a small radio welded to his ear, who used to shout out random scores

[@owlstalk]

 

 

Standing up against the crush barriers on the Kop always seemed really cool when you could actually get a space. You'd have to rock up early to get up against a barrier.

You'd be loving life but then we'd score and a thousand mad Wednesday fans would surge forward crushing your ribs up against the barrier.

Terrifying

[Nut]

4 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

 

Standing up against the crush barriers on the Kop always seemed really cool when you could actually get a space. You'd have to rock up early to get up against a barrier.

You'd be loving life but then we'd score and a thousand mad Wednesday fans would surge forward crushing your ribs up against the barrier.

Terrifying

The clever ones who got there early stood in front of the barrier.

[Guest Garryswfcowl72]

6 minutes ago, Bakewell Owl said:

an old bloke on the Kop just behind us who had a small radio welded to his ear, who used to shout out random scores

I remember that 

[@owlstalk]

1 minute ago, Nut said:

The clever ones who got there early stood in front of the barrier.

Never thought of that

 

 

[Imre Varadi]

Rosettes on sale..

[sherlyegg]

The End is Nigh man, wonder what happened to him?..

 

[horny owl]

Standing on the crows nest  (north west corner) with my dad and seeing north stand erupt when we scored that was me hooked.
 

The smell of cigars to this day remind me of my early days at Hillsborough 

 

Toilet rolls cascading down the Kop when Wednesday came out of the tunnel

Edited April 13, 2020 by horny owl

[horny owl]

1 minute ago, sherlyegg said:

The End is Nigh man, wonder what happened to him?..

 

Oh aye he stood on leppings lane

[sherlyegg]

Always waving his placard about near the players entrance..think he got chucked in the Don after the man city game...