| more shocking revelations 08:56 - Sep 30 with 4186 views | DannyPaddox |
I've been mulling it over for weeks whether to go Saturday. Majorly disillusioned with the 'tactics' and can't face paying my hard earned to watch yet another riparian spanking. The 2nd half versus Brum put me in a better mood but then I realised I've never ever seen us win at the Cottage. Further ruminations on other London grounds I've seen the Rs play at led to a genuinely shocking realisation.
After supporting the team for decades albeit with sporadic attendance, venturing to all the sh!t-hole postcodes you can think of from N17 to SE16 and back again I can reveal I've only ever seen us beat one London team away. I'm talking 40 years 30 games 10 grounds. Shocking! Truly shocking! Jesus Christ! I've only seen us beat one London team away from Loftus Road. I don't even know what to compare this to. Maybe being told that after all these years all the money you've ever spent on all your holidays had been used by local communities to murder small furry animals. A sort of ongoing international Beatrix Pottericide. Imagine being told that!
The bitter-sweet irony to all this though is I wouldn't change it because the one London ground I have seen us win away at, and repeatedly I may add, (1-0, 2-0, 3-0 in reverse chronological order) is you know where ... The Walham Green Wanqadrome. Sweet sweet joy! Confusingly I have seen us win at Highbury twice but not against Arsenal.
So maybe I shouldn't go to Fulham tomorrow. Maybe early on I made a pact with the devil foregoing all other London away wins for the irreplaceable ecstacy of victory in SW6. It hasn't been the countless players, managers, bad luck, better opposition, and shit tactics that's let us down it's been me. I am the London derby albatross. Or am I? Maybe I should definitely make the short hop to the land of the red-trousered as the weight of statistics can only suggest things will change. They will change wont they?
nb: Watford doesn't count. Non-entities and borderline midlanders.
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| more shocking revelations on 22:44 - Sep 30 with 1127 views | flynnbo |
| more shocking revelations on 22:36 - Sep 30 by qprxtc |
Never forget Paul Went. Craven Cottage 1972. Broke Matyn Busbys leg. My dad hates Paul Went (and Joe Waters, another story). Git. |
Joe Bloody Waters broke my heart that day what with Junior Campbell predicting our victory on children's TV that very morning. When they won they celebrated in front of the Loft where I was standing with my Dad who tore me off a strip when I ran down to have a go at them. I was only 14. Every keeper in those days seemed to play a blinder at HQ. |  | | |
| more shocking revelations on 23:23 - Sep 30 with 1092 views | ted_hendrix |
I was at Cold Blow Lane for this win I was in the big stand by the touchline with my good mate who hailed from Count Clare and was an absolute Millwall diehard nutcase, obviously being surrounded by Millwall mentalists my goal celebration sounded like an Aardvark internally combusting.
Millwall v Queens Park Rangers, 21 April 1973
Score 1-0 to Queens Park Rangers
Competition League Division Two
Attendance 16,136 |  |
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| more shocking revelations on 23:38 - Sep 30 with 1086 views | enfieldargh |
| more shocking revelations on 23:23 - Sep 30 by ted_hendrix |
I was at Cold Blow Lane for this win I was in the big stand by the touchline with my good mate who hailed from Count Clare and was an absolute Millwall diehard nutcase, obviously being surrounded by Millwall mentalists my goal celebration sounded like an Aardvark internally combusting.
Millwall v Queens Park Rangers, 21 April 1973
Score 1-0 to Queens Park Rangers
Competition League Division Two
Attendance 16,136 |
was that the game when Don Givens scored and ran along the side terrace where Millwall big mob stood holding up his finger. Got out of there in one piece that day.
3-0 away at Chelsea then 3-1 then 2-0 and again 2-0 with a draw and two defeats mixed into that little run |  |
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| more shocking revelations on 00:03 - Oct 1 with 1064 views | ted_hendrix |
| more shocking revelations on 23:38 - Sep 30 by enfieldargh |
was that the game when Don Givens scored and ran along the side terrace where Millwall big mob stood holding up his finger. Got out of there in one piece that day.
3-0 away at Chelsea then 3-1 then 2-0 and again 2-0 with a draw and two defeats mixed into that little run |
Christ mate I only vaguely remember the goal and keeping me hands in me pocket and looking at the concrete floor whilst trying not to celebrate, like I say I was in their stand with me mate.
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| more shocking revelations on 05:43 - Oct 1 with 1007 views | FredManRave |
| more shocking revelations on 21:48 - Sep 30 by DannyPaddox |
Silly me I do exaggerate. I saw us win at Walthamstow Avenue in the early 80s. I'll be there tomorrow (soz xtc and everyone else but this hoodoo has to fcukd). Could get messy in the Hammersmith end. Especially when I unfurl the 'Hasselbung Is Innocent' banner. U Rs!!! [Post edited 30 Sep 2016 21:55]
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Assuming thats you in your avatar you should be fairly easy to pick out.
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| (No subject) (n/t) on 14:09 - Oct 2 with 919 views | DannyPaddox |
Well that was fun. Rolling around the by then emptying seats of the Hammersmith End in paroxysms of joy ululating indefinably as that 2nd penalty slapped the woodwork. Beautiful stuff. Half time also a particularly lovely moment drinking farmhouse cider watching the early afternoon sunshine dance along the Thames: a massive grin on my gob. Craven Cottage is a great ground and I take it as a compliment that they appear to dislike us far more then we dislike them. Truth be told I don't dislike Fulham and I hope Khan the moustache doesn't completely Americanise them and steal their soul and identity as Brady and the Porn Barons have done at West Ham.
But I do now feel a bit of a fraud. I've realised today that I was there last time we won in 1980 when the great Gary Waddock got his first goal for the club. Also the part of my brain that deals with the storing and retrieval of memories related to Crystal Palace (an area of the brain known as the rectum or Swindlehurst's bassoon) tells me I saw both Warnock wins there of recent times. Plus I've seen us beat Ch*ls** away not 3 times but 5 times! And I may well have been at Arsenal in '84 to see us win 2-0. So that's wins seen at Craven Cottage, Stamford Bridge, Selhurst Park, Highbury, and Green Pond Road, Walthamstow. Thats a top record. I don't know what I was going on about in the original post! [Post edited 2 Oct 2016 14:22]
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| more shocking revelations on 15:27 - Oct 2 with 852 views | kensalriser |
You've seen us beat Chelsea away how many times? Good god man, how old are you? |  |
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| (No subject) (n/t) on 16:35 - Oct 2 with 768 views | Dorse |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 14:09 - Oct 2 by DannyPaddox |
Well that was fun. Rolling around the by then emptying seats of the Hammersmith End in paroxysms of joy ululating indefinably as that 2nd penalty slapped the woodwork. Beautiful stuff. Half time also a particularly lovely moment drinking farmhouse cider watching the early afternoon sunshine dance along the Thames: a massive grin on my gob. Craven Cottage is a great ground and I take it as a compliment that they appear to dislike us far more then we dislike them. Truth be told I don't dislike Fulham and I hope Khan the moustache doesn't completely Americanise them and steal their soul and identity as Brady and the Porn Barons have done at West Ham.
But I do now feel a bit of a fraud. I've realised today that I was there last time we won in 1980 when the great Gary Waddock got his first goal for the club. Also the part of my brain that deals with the storing and retrieval of memories related to Crystal Palace (an area of the brain known as the rectum or Swindlehurst's bassoon) tells me I saw both Warnock wins there of recent times. Plus I've seen us beat Ch*ls** away not 3 times but 5 times! And I may well have been at Arsenal in '84 to see us win 2-0. So that's wins seen at Craven Cottage, Stamford Bridge, Selhurst Park, Highbury, and Green Pond Road, Walthamstow. Thats a top record. I don't know what I was going on about in the original post! [Post edited 2 Oct 2016 14:22]
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Funnily enough, I don't hate Fulham either. I reserve my coruscating anger and withering scorn for those pathetic specimens who play at Stamford Bridge. And their fans. And any parent that allows their progeny to supports them. And their pets. |  |
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| (No subject) (n/t) on 17:16 - Oct 2 with 740 views | DannyPaddox |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 16:35 - Oct 2 by Dorse |
Funnily enough, I don't hate Fulham either. I reserve my coruscating anger and withering scorn for those pathetic specimens who play at Stamford Bridge. And their fans. And any parent that allows their progeny to supports them. And their pets. |
The pets are the worst. As a rule I abhor blood sports but the competitive slaughtering of domesticated animals owned by Chelsea supporters would make the Olympic modern pentathlon a truly great event. | | | |
| more shocking revelations on 17:20 - Oct 2 with 733 views | ShotKneesHoop |
| more shocking revelations on 22:44 - Sep 30 by flynnbo |
Joe Bloody Waters broke my heart that day what with Junior Campbell predicting our victory on children's TV that very morning. When they won they celebrated in front of the Loft where I was standing with my Dad who tore me off a strip when I ran down to have a go at them. I was only 14. Every keeper in those days seemed to play a blinder at HQ. |
Sodding Motson shouting "Oh yes for the youngster" on MOTD - as the second of Leicester's goals went in. A very much against the form result in that cup game. Was Redknobb involved in any way? |  |
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