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Bayingblade said:
First TV programme I ever saw in colour was Scooby Do. My mates dad got a colour TV in about 1970 and we all went round for a look. Still slightly traumatised by finding out that the aforementioned hound was bright orange..............

At least he was in 1970 on my mates dad's TV!:confused:
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And now he's President of the USA.
 

BushBlade said:
View attachment 32518 I had a big crush on Toni Arthur when I was about 4.

I knew I wanted to do something with her but no idea what.
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Good shout. Forgot about her. Think it was the husky sexy voice and big hair.

I was the same with Susan Stranks
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After googling images of her, I have found some of when she did a program called "Paper-play" and she had short hair. I am alarmed somewhat to see that she looked like my Mum did when I was younger :eek: Analyse that one Sigmund !
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Billyblade said:
Good shout. Forgot about her. Think it was the husky sexy voice and big hair.

I was the same with Susan Stranks
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After googling images of her, I have found some of when she did a program called "Paper-play" and she had short hair. I am alarmed somewhat to see that she looked like my Mum did when I was younger :eek: Analyse that one Sigmund !
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And her surname is an amalgam of 'strokes' and 'wanks'.
 
Sean Thornton said:
Tales from the riverbank, Magpie?
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Magpie was ITV's answer to Blue Peter - and nowhere near as good. Tales of the Riverbank was good though - but that was BBC of course. I think the BBC had children's programmes sewn up back then. Although I liked Southern TV's, "How", with Fred Dineage, Jack Hargreaves, some other bloke called John and a woman called Bunty.

Anyhow, we'd best get back on topic before they send the thread police in.

When I saw a thread entitled "BBC" my mind ran amok. I'm relieved to see it's about the Blades Business Crew. Can't say I've ever been involved with them myself. I once watched a game from the upper tier at Bramall lane and at the end of the game I'm going down the steps and there's dozens of them rushing up the steps to attack the away fans. I don't know why I didn't get twatted but maybe it's cos I looked either dead hard or dead whimpy. Probably the latter as I was only about 14 at the time - although I had started training with a "Bullworker" by then, so you never know.

I've also heard this romantic description of the BBC, that they formed to protect our own. It's almost like the Tales of Robin Hood isn't it? I don't believe that for one minute. I think it was a bunch of blokes that enjoyed gang fighting with other blokes from rival football gangs. As far as I know they still exist - I know when I went to the Sheffield derby the other week there were lots of Wednesday fans on Lepers Lane asking about them, i.e. "Where's your f*ckin BBC?". Aww! that was nice of 'em wasn't it?

I know quite a lot of the young kids who go watching the Blades, through my association with junior football. Most of them wear "Stone Island" clothing and aren't really hard - they just like to pretend. I'm sure there's still an older generation though who have never really grown out of it?
 
coaxingstar71 said:
Not this isn't a thread about gold ol' Auntie Beeb.........

Been wondering for a while what's happened to our very own 'Blades Business Crew'? I was never in it and have always kept well away from any 'nawtyness'.

Back in the 80's, there was a lot of talk about them and it was my understanding that they 'formed' because our fans kept getting a kicking from oppo fans and it was partly so that we'd have our own crew/element to counteract this. That's likely a bit of a romantic way of looking at it and I'm certain that most of them were in it to give some other fans a good kicking.

So what happened to them? I remember they allegedly stood on the John St terracing as near to the away support as possible. Are they still around? Perhaps some of you were in it or still are?

I remember at school, some kids would say "He's in the BBC y'know" which was supposed to mean "He's really hard and you shouldn't mess with him, lest he and his gang of mates give you a good kicking and possibly worse".
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Nope, the "BBC" was just the latest name for them, before then it was the Shoreham Riot Squad (late 60's/early 70's), who all wore boiler suits and steel capped boots, bit sort of Clockwork Orange-ish from memory.

They became the Shoreham Republican Army (mid 70's?), or the "SRA"

"...Aye, aye, aye, aye
Shoreham Republican Army (we're barmy)
Wherever we go, we fear no foe
Cos we are the SRA "

BBC was around 1990/81?

Someone with a bit more knowledge will put me straight on the above, if needed.
 

Bayingblade said:
I had the same crush BB! We are clearly of the same vintage and have the same impeccable taste:confused:
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I've only just realised your avatar is Anderson playing the flute. I'm not a huge Tull fan but I love the Aqualung album (and some of their other stuff too).
 
since1889 said:
For fucking yonks I had no idea what "sticky back plastic" was.

Turns out it was fucking sellotape.
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I didn't even know that until you just said o_O

Good old BBC. Always so completely right on. No wonder modern youth are snowflakes with the state propaganda that's been beamed at them for 50+ years. Everybody knows Valerian Singleton was a carpet muncher, do they not? It must have been very upsetting for the BBC that they couldn't find a disabled black transgender carpet muncher back in the 70's. Still, they're making up for lost time now.
 
surely with the owls having the fearsome ultras we need a recruitment drive for the bbc
if the ultras come to the lane they might resort to dishing out wrist burns or sailor cake and other nefarious mayhem
 
northsomersetblade said:
I didn't even know that until you just said o_O

Good old BBC. Always so completely right on. No wonder modern youth are snowflakes with the state propaganda that's been beamed at them for 50+ years. Everybody knows Valerian Singleton was a carpet muncher, do they not? It must have been very upsetting for the BBC that they couldn't find a disabled black transgender carpet muncher back in the 70's. Still, they're making up for lost time now.
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Obviously their propaganda was as effective as a Carvahal team talk.
 
Eddiecolquhounsleg said:
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I know we've gone off topic but what about Sally James from TISWAS.
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Yup. And I'm surprised she hasn't come out of the woodwork claiming she was 'sexually harassed' back then. :rolleyes:

Anyway, back to football hooliganism. The first hoolies I saw was around 1969 when a bunch of long-haired Stoke 'greebos' were marching down John Street carrying large, home-made red-and-white banners. When the hooligan problem started escalating, you've got to remember that a lot was to do with the hangover of World War 2. The war had only been over for around 25 years (less time than George Michael became famous from nowadays), people were still living in back-to-back slums and bomb sites were still common.

One day, my dad asked me 'Why do people feel the need to fight at football matches?' I replied that young men have always felt the need to fight. 'Mods, rockers, punks, skins, teds etc.' He replied 'Well my generation didn't feel the need to fight.' I casually mentioned WW2. :(
 
grafikhaus said:
Yup. And I'm surprised she hasn't come out of the woodwork claiming she was 'sexually harassed' back then. :rolleyes:

Anyway, back to football hooliganism. The first hoolies I saw was around 1969 when a bunch of long-haired Stoke 'greebos' were marching down John Street carrying large, home-made red-and-white banners. When the hooligan problem started escalating, you've got to remember that a lot was to do with the hangover of World War 2. The war had only been over for around 25 years (less time than George Michael became famous from nowadays), people were still living in back-to-back slums and bomb sites were still common.

One day, my dad asked me 'Why do people feel the need to fight at football matches?' I replied that young men have always felt the need to fight. 'Mods, rockers, punks, skins, teds etc.' He replied 'Well my generation didn't feel the need to fight.' I casually mentioned WW2. :(
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Greebos. A word I have not heard for nigh on 50 years. Cheers
 

I’ll never forget the battle of the channels at Portman Road.
BBC v the Ipswich TransVestites.
 
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