'Mind yer car mister.’ It’s 30p to stand at The Valley (That’s six shillings in proper money). It is long ago a time of rosettes and handmade capes of bedsheets daubed with the names of the players using some left over gloss from the touching up the skirting-boards in the spare room. Watch Brasil win The World Cup , on a colour television set if you’re lucky , but the terraces are crumbling, the youthful fans filled with testosterone and bile, those who control them uncaring or brutal or both. Walls collapse. Fences are locked, there are deaths on the terraces . It is an era at once more innocent and infinitely more dangerous than today. And gradually that all changes.
The Rawcliffe Street “mind yer car“ gang. Takings were spent in Thornley’s Sweet Shop.
Moss Side Manchester
27 July 1968
2 short of a full team outside The Azteca Stadium : Mexico City
October 1985
Charlton Athletic v Cardiff City
The Valley, Floyd Road, London. Enclosure standing was 6 shillings.
12 February 1972
Brian Clough (1936 - 2004)
Derby County Manager with his players
April 1972
The redoubtable Birmingham City poster team.
George Moore with the bucket and Tommy Bell with the poster
08 February 1968
Mario Americo the Brasil masseur aka ‘Pombo Correlo'
He was named carrier pigeon for the numerous tactical messages he passed on during a match
18 June 1974
During the World Cup in Germany
Sweden fans live in a motorhome in a Koln car park
20 June 2006
The fans of Workington Town AFC
Their official offices - a derelict railway carriage
09 October 1969
Big day in The West Country as the mass crowds gather in Yeovil Town Centre
Yeovil are Champions and are promoted to The Football League
28 April 2003
Ever Hernandez (2nd right) with his family in Santa Ana, El Salvador
His goal against Mexico two weeks earlier in Honduras qualified El Salvador for the 1982 World Cup.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to sell cars
24 November 1981
Brentford FC
Football League Division 3
1971
Korea beat Italy by ‘golden goal‘ scored by Ahn Jung - Hwan (extreme left)
The World Cup : Daejeon Korea 18 June 2002
The World Cup Final, 2006
Gigi Buffon, Legendary Italy National Team goalkeeper & captain
Commando Ultra Indian Trips (C. U. I. T)
WBA v Everton FA Cup Final
WBA are victorious and they show the cup to their fans
18 May 1968
9.15 pm Central Liverpool, near Lime Street Station
The Liverpool team after returning from Istanbul with The Champion’s Cup
26 May 2005
Limassol Cyprus
In the background is the Tsirion Football Stadium. On this day Cyprus play Spain there in The European Championship
8 December 1979
FA Cup Preliminary round
Portland v Bridgewater
28 August 2004
FA Cup Preliminary round
Portland v Bridgewater
28 August 2004
The World Cup : Brasil v England : Guadalajara Mexico.
Pele and Charlton, in the foreground right is Alf Ramsey.
7 June 1970
A defaced Nike billboard featuring Eric Cantona
Sheffield
27 June 1996
Belgium fan: Miek van Rens - Verbers
St Petersburg, Russia
12 July 2018
Vladimir Putin
Commands the 2018 World Cup host announcement press conference
02 December 2010
Stanislav from Sumy , north east Ukraine
The World Cup Berlin
22 June 2006
Mexico v Angola: 2006 World Cup
Hannover, Germany
Preparing for The European Championship in 2000
Rotterdam, Holland
13 May 1999
Luton Town
2001
West Ham United FC
Upton Park - the old stadium (1904 - 2016)
16 October 1969
Chelsea v Tottenham reserves at Aldershot FC
Waiting in the tunnel
21 March 2005
Poland v Spain: Olympic Games Final
Barcelona
1992
Gheorghe Hagi
Romania
1994
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
World Cup qualification, T&T v El Salvador
30 July 1989
Pierluigi Collina : Italian referee
The World Cup Final . 30 June 2002
Alexi Lalas, a prominent US team player in the 1994 World Cup
He is now a Fox Sports TV Analyst and blogger
New York, 1998
Roma: World Cup 1990 / Ireland v Italy
Jack Charlton, Ireland Manager
30 June 1990
OLGA - the Carlisle United mascot
Her minder is George Baxter
1970
The doorman and Arsenal Manager Bert Mee at the entrance to The Highbury Stadium
With The FA Cup and 1st Division Trophies
20 May 1971
Swindon Town team , management and staff
This picture 7 days before The League Cup Final which they won by beating Arsenal
7 March 1969
The stars are not wanted now ;
Put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
29 May 1985
Bezledy-Bagrationovsk, Russia
03.00 am as English fans cross from Russia into Poland by bus
29 June 2018
Ronaldo
Portugal
2006
Brasil v Scotland - World Cup, Spain
Brasil team after the game
23 June 1982
Holland v Bulgaria
1974 World Cup
Johann Criujff wears his no 14
Carlos Alberto Torres (1944 - 2016) - captain of Brasil holds the Jules Rimet World Cup
Mexico Azteca Stadium
21 June 1970
Muhammed Ali at Cosmos Stadium, New York
He is there to see his 2nd football game - the previous game was The World Cup Final in London in 1966 (he only stayed the first half)
August 1977
Holland v Scotland
June 1992
Lagos Nigeria
Africa Nations Cup Final: Nigeria v Algeria
22 March 1980
Martin Buchan and Kenny Dalglish : Argentina v Scotland : Buenos Aires
18 June 1977
Manchester City v Manchester United
15 November 1969
The FA Cup Final 1971 : Liverpool v Arsenal
18 May 1971
West Ham United fan
10 May 1980
Bolton Wanderers in the 70s in the rain
