West Ham (A) 10/4: Build-Up & Match Thread

[Wilf Wolf]

Remember that game well, played some really good stuff that day and should’ve won by more if Phil Parkes hadn’t been in top form.

Parkes would have been 39 then. An excellent keeper, far better than our namesake was when I saw him at the end of his time at Wolves.

 

[jd1981]

Parkes would have been 39 then. An excellent keeper, far better than our namesake was when I saw him at the end of his time at Wolves.

First keeper I ever saw be a real problem for Bully obviously Bully had the last laugh but Parkes was excellent that day.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

First keeper I ever saw be a real problem for Bully obviously Bully had the last laugh but Parkes was excellent that day.

Nigel Martyn for Bristol Rovers

 

[jd1981]

Nigel Martyn for Bristol Rovers

Wasn’t there as it was the bank holiday Monday I think we were at my grandparents in Devon.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Wasn’t there as it was the bank holiday Monday I think we were at my grandparents in Devon.

I was. A 0-1 battering, he was ridiculous.

First ever time I saw us lose in person, I cried after (I was only 7 in fairness)

 

[Tony Towner]

I was. A 0-1 battering, he was ridiculous.

First ever time I saw us lose in person, I cried after (I was only 7 in fairness)

Still the best keeper performance I've seen live. Not sure anyone has come back since and got the reception Kenny Hibbitt got that day, in fact I'm sure they haven't.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Paul Cooks debut?

 

[Sniffer]

Paul Cooks debut?

Away at Leicester - 0-0 Bully got sent off

 

[Jinky]

My word. I remember having/collecting these ‘Pro Set’ cards. I used to play with and look at them for hours and hours when I was a kid. I vividly remember coming around from a serious operation when I was 5-6 years old, waking up and seeing my dad sitting next to my hospital bed - and the first thing I asked to do was to play with my football cards.

Real wave of nostalgia seeing the pic above. Thanks for that, mate!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

My word. I remember having/collecting these ‘Pro Set’ cards. I used to play with and look at them for hours and hours when I was a kid. I vividly remember coming around from a serious operation when I was 5-6 years old, waking up and seeing my dad sitting next to my hospital bed - and the first thing I asked to do was to play with my football cards.

Real wave of nostalgia seeing the pic above. Thanks for that, mate!

Yeah, me and our kid had hundreds and hundreds of the things.

Including about 12 Mark Bowens.

 

[Jinky]

Yeah, me and our kid had hundreds and hundreds of the things.

Including about 12 Mark Bowens.

I’ve just had a quick look online to see if you can buy them…

Let’s just say I wish I’d kept hold of them. Going for hundreds now!

 

[Banjo]

Yeah, me and our kid had hundreds and hundreds of the things.

Including about 12 Mark Bowens.

I had about 50 Steve Cherrys.

 

[lemonjelly]

got a folder full of them upstairs! need to dig that out...

 

[SSB]

I’ve just had a quick look online to see if you can buy them…

Let’s just say I wish I’d kept hold of them. Going for hundreds now!

Mine will still be at the folks house up in the loft somewhere alongside a load of sticker books, pogs and tazos!

 

[basher]

Talking of football cards...I collected Football 78 Panini sticker album as a kid...I completed it!!!

When i started my first real job in '87 I took it in to show some of the blokes at work... one of them asked if they could take it to show a mate of theirs who was recovering from a broken femur... that was the last I saw of it...

 

[jd1981]

I’ve just had a quick look online to see if you can buy them…

Let’s just say I wish I’d kept hold of them. Going for hundreds now!

3 wolves players, Bull, Mutch and Dennison and Paul Birch but he was a Villa player.

Yeah, me and our kid had hundreds and hundreds of the things.

Including about 12 Mark Bowens.

Gary lineker and Gaza was the gold dust cards which took me ages to get I kept getting Ian Olney, Mitchell Thomas and Mohamed Amar.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Ian Crook and Robert Rosario were my multiple "swaps".

 

[malta mick]

When Esso did the ‘silver’ coins early 70’s for the World Cup, I managed to get one with my name on. Still got it today. I don’t think I got to play a match though but was in the squad.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I had the 1990 coins, England and Scotland

 

[big mean bunny]

I had the 1990 coins, England and Scotland

I had these, it why I still say "Did you mean to Jugoslavja?" to people, no one ever gets the reference.