Anyone remember the Kop trumpeter?

[William Large]

I sat on the Kop on Saturday for the first time in a couple of years (usually in Westfield Corner or South Stand) and saw loads of faces that I hadn't seen for a while. People I didn't know or hadn't even spoken to but folk that I and others I go with had nicknames for due to various reasons.(Clipboard man anyone?) I got thinking about the trumpeter in the kop who used to play the greasy chip butty song tune years ago. He was quite shit to start off with and always raised a laugh and cheers - until he got better and eventually managed a few renditions per match in tune and without pauses. I don't recall actually ever seeing him tho.
Where is he and his trumpet now? Also would be interested in others nicknames for fellow supporters they don't know. I can't bear to post about the team and perhaps this might raise a smile?

 

[stannyblade]

I remember him yeah mate. He was before the pig fest band. We also had a drummer as well

 

[gavtheblade]

I remember him yeah mate. He was before the pig fest band. We also had a drummer as well

the drummer you refer to is the man inside the captain blade outfit-old gazza,he started the drum thing off when we signed Flo back in the early 90`s.

 

[MunXy]

ive known "capt blade" since early 80's, fine guy, great sense of humour and was a fantastic DJ in his time.
as for nicknames for people you dont know, there was a guy always sat just behind the goal on kop end just outside either post and always seemed to wear a yellow t shirt or yellow sweat shirt who i dubbed "canary man" saw him many times on match of the day and football league show, not noticed him for a while tho maybe he stoped going

MunXy

 

[Russ]

There was a guy who sat on the left hand side of the kop, about gangway B seat 70 or 72 I think, who was referred to as "AHHH BALL". Every time the ball went out he would shout "AHHHHHHHH BALL" at the top of his voice. Sat next to me, which was annoying! When he didn't turn up to some games, people would look around and say where's AHHHH BALL?!

Also I remember in the late 80's early 90's there was a weird character who looked like he was out of some 70's band who would walk about p!ssed and feel at people's ear, then say "You're a Blade!" LOL. Not sure what his name was, would probably get arrested now.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

ive known "capt blade" since early 80's, fine guy, great sense of humour and was a fantastic DJ in his time.
as for nicknames for people you dont know, there was a guy always sat just behind the goal on kop end just outside either post and always seemed to wear a yellow t shirt or yellow sweat shirt who i dubbed "canary man" saw him many times on match of the day and football league show, not noticed him for a while tho maybe he stoped going MunXy

That sounds like Shiny Blade as mentioned on the "Absent Friends" thread.

There's a bloke fairly near me who I call "The Assessor". He never seems to comment on the match only on the officials.
If they make a decision he doesn't approve of, he stands up and gives them a lengthy and detailed bollocking.

 

[Bert]

That sounds like Shiny Blade as mentioned on the "Absent Friends" thread.

There's a bloke fairly near me who I call "The Assessor". He never seems to comment on the match only on the officials.
If they make a decision he doesn't approve of, he stands up and gives them a lengthy and detailed bollocking.

Shiny wasn't really a football fan and he went to very few games and when he did go he usually sat in the Bramall Lane stand. Ask some of the London wasters, they will tell you the same.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Shiny wasn't really a football fan and he went to very few games and when he did go he usually sat in the Bramall Lane stand. Ask some of the London wasters, they will tell you the same.

Fair enough. "Canary man" must be a different bloke with a bright yellow shirt who has stopped going.

 

[Bert]

Fair enough. "Canary man" must be a different bloke with a bright yellow shirt who has stopped going.

Or bought a new shirt

 

[borbokis]

I used t sit on the kop, back of the G gangway, There used to be a guy I called "pork pie hat" who wore an old blades red and white pork pie hat and used to bang the metal walls behind him. There was a guy with long greasy blonde hair with a proper fucked up face as well. But yes I remember the trumpeter but he was still shit when I last went

 

[torridon]

During a night match at the Lane many moons ago, forget the opponents and score, i got into conversation with a chap stood alongside me about an upcoming away game at QPR i think, it was when they had an astro turf surface at Loftus Road, this chap kept going on about anti turf and how it wasn't right as it gave QPR an advantage, "bloody anti turf it ain't reight, shunt be allowed, bloody anti turf". Still spot him occasionally on the Kop and think theres anti turf man and it still brings a smile to my face when i do.

 

[judge]

i recall being sat on the kop with my 8 yr old brother who informed there was a man sat in just his underpants behind us
dont talk daft i told him ,until my mate pointed out that there was so i turned round to see a lad sat on his own in a state of undress
can any of you guess which poster on here it is ?

 

[Compound_Legend]

When I first started going to the Lane,we stood on the far corner of the Kop,in the area we knew as the Crows Nest...

Week after week,this little old bloke used to stand in front of us,with his scarf,flat cap,Woodbines,and a little half pint Thermos full of tea,lovingly prepared by his missus.



From that moment onwards,that bloke was known by us as Arthur Flaskey.

When it became all-seater,the kid who sat in front us bore a remarkable resemblance to Pugsley Addams from the Addams Family,so obviously was renamed after him,and more recently,there's been a old fella who sat on the same row as me on John Street,who wore his lucky white cap to every match. Me and our old man called him Vancouver,after the old NASL team Vancouver Whitecaps,which later became Van The Man...

Finally,who remembers this sound resonating from the Kop?

[video=youtube;MwHWbsvgQUE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHWbsvgQUE[/video]

Whatever happened to Weissmuller?

 

[Russ]

Perhaps it was the lad in just his pants

 

[alcoblade]

"Whatever happened to Weissmuller?"

Good question. Not heard him for years.....

UTB

 

[Jonboy60]

Jane probably put a block on.

 

[diplomat]

There's a bloke who looks like fullautomatix from asterix who I first saw at QPR when they had Ferdinand and we had Mike Lake (lost 3-2). Didnt see him for years but then saw him in quick succession at a few games in a row. Exactly the same but a bit older. He's probably even in fashion once every twenty years. . . In some cartoon lookalike circles

 

[Oreyt]

There was a guy with long greasy blonde hair with a proper fucked up face as well.

Recognise that description. Does he wear a baseball cap? Always seem to see him at (my few and far between) away matches.

 

[bricktop]

There is a bloke in front of me and my mates on the kop, who is permanently disgruntled, and can and does get worked up by the slightest little thing. We've nicknamed him the bus driver and i once got on a bus and he was the driver, so he is the bus driver for no other reason than that

 

[Toiletduck]

Anyone know of a bloke that used to or still does sit on the bottom of the S next to the pillar on the Kop that used to shout "fire" "bomb" etc. When people used to leave early before the game finished. I used to have my season ticket near him for a few years.

 

[Large Mendonca]

"Whatever happened to Weissmuller?"

Good question. Not heard him for years.....

UTB

I remember his cry in the 1993/4 season just as Brian Gunn was running to take a goalkick (in the day when he had long straggly hair). I nearly wet myself

 

[Ecco_Blade]

Anyone know of a bloke that used to or still does sit on the bottom of the S next to the pillar on the Kop that used to shout "fire" "bomb" etc. When people used to leave early before the game finished. I used to have my season ticket near him for a few years.

I remember him as I used to sit on Row K on the Kop and he was either the row behind or two rows behind me.

I also think he posts on here ... I think it was Pinchy. "Fire", "Bomb Scare" etc lol

 

[Toiletduck]

Also used to see a massive fat young lad at every away game i went to, he was a jolly young chap. He must have had the worlds biggest shirt and he was nicknamed "roundabout".......

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I remember him as I used to sit on Row K on the Kop and he was either the row behind or two rows behind me.

I also think he posts on here ... I think it was Pinchy. "Fire", "Bomb Scare" etc lol

There used to be a middle aged bloke and two sons that sat around there too. Think they are still up there, i saw the bloke and his missus knocking around there for the Huddersfield game. Then there was another little old fella that sat near them that turned up to every game late.

 

[shorehamview]

Clipboard man anyone?

There's a bloke who sits just across the aisle and one row down from us, and he has been nicknamed Clipboard Man because he invariably makes notes to the back of his programme as the team line-ups are announced. Not sure if it's the same bloke....

Catweasel sits in front of him - a bloke in his late 50s or maybe early 60s, long straggly grey hair and a short beard, and he sits next to Hairy Steve Wright, who looks like the eponymous 80s-era DJ, but with a baseball cap and really long mullety hair.

A few rows down from that, in the seat next to the aisle, is Fashion Victim. This bloke dressess like a colour blind golfer, and lives in a house with no mirrors or lighting, and at the moment must have had a nasty leg injury because he's been spotted wearing one medical support thingy that looks like a ski boot.

 

[geekblade]

As a kid I used to sit on the kop with my uncle and I remember him the trumpet guy! Would have been early-mid 1990's. 1994? I think down in the bottom third off towards the strut on the right (looking outwards). I used to quite like him back then but think it'd piss me off now.

 

[William Large]

When I first started going to the Lane,we stood on the far corner of the Kop,in the area we knew as the Crows Nest...

Week after week,this little old bloke used to stand in front of us,with his scarf,flat cap,Woodbines,and a little half pint Thermos full of tea,lovingly prepared by his missus.

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From that moment onwards,that bloke was known by us as Arthur Flaskey.

When it became all-seater,the kid who sat in front us bore a remarkable resemblance to Pugsley Addams from the Addams Family,so obviously was renamed after him,and more recently,there's been a old fella who sat on the same row as me on John Street,who wore his lucky white cap to every match. Me and our old man called him Vancouver,after the old NASL team Vancouver Whitecaps,which later became Van The Man...

Finally,who remembers this sound resonating from the Kop?




[video=youtube;MwHWbsvgQUE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHWbsvgQUE[/video]

Whatever happened to Weissmuller?

I totally forgot about him! We need these characters back. If anyone knows the trumpter or weismuller, get them back for the Derby. Quite worryingly I used to see a bloke in drag on the kop in the mid 90's. It wasn't meant as a fancy dress or ironic thing cos I saw him at Banner Cross once as well, in his unconvincing garb. He was about 50 with thick stubble and make up.
I once got sat next to a right boring bastard with a tache at a night match against Stockport, he kept talking to me about formations and how he would organise set pieces. The following match I bought tickets for the total opposite end of the kop and for some ungodly reason ended up slap bang next to the boring cunt again. Cue another 45 minutes of him droning on, before we moved. I saw him again a few years later sat directly in front of me on the South Stand, unfortunately couldn't move but got perverse pleasure out of observing him boring a young couple almost to suicide for the full game. Boring tachy bastard, where are you now????

 

[shorehamview]

Boring tachy bastard, where are you now????

It's Olle. Or Micalijo.

 

[William Large]

There's a bloke who sits just across the aisle and one row down from us, and he has been nicknamed Clipboard Man because he invariably makes notes to the back of his programme as the team line-ups are announced. Not sure if it's the same bloke....

Catweasel sits in front of him - a bloke in his late 50s or maybe early 60s, long straggly grey hair and a short beard, and he sits next to Hairy Steve Wright, who looks like the eponymous 80s-era DJ, but with a baseball cap and really long mullety hair.

A few rows down from that, in the seat next to the aisle, is Fashion Victim. This bloke dressess like a colour blind golfer, and lives in a house with no mirrors or lighting, and at the moment must have had a nasty leg injury because he's been spotted wearing one medical support thingy that looks like a ski boot.

Ha, I saw a bloke who looked like a thinner stever wright with a cracking pony tail. Must be same one, unless there is a group of them!

 

[2ndtenorblade]

I call the bloke in front of me echoman, he simply repeats just about everything I shout.

 

[Lt. J Dangle]

There's a fella who sits (stands) at the far left of the kop about halfway up and has greying hair and glasses. He gesticulates wildly throughout the game. We find him as entertaining as the match. A couple of seasons ago, me and my son got in early for a night match v Blackpool. Out of the blue my son asked, "I wonder if Fabio Capello will be here again tonight" Bovril went ppppppfffffffttt down the kop. Ever since, if we decide to sit at the far left of the kop, we say we are sitting near Fabio. I'm not knocking the bloke, he's a legend of the Lane to me.