Classic photos from the Mail

[dave shelley]

Spot on Ron.  I have an eerie feeling you must have been standing just a few feet from me at many a match.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Did most Villa fans look like Great Train Robbers or The Krays back then ?

[Damo70]

The bloke standing shoulder to shoulder with the old fella in the cap and glasses looks like the bloke that used to be in 'Get Some In'.

[Ron Manager]

The bloke standing shoulder to shoulder with the old fella in the cap and glasses looks like the bloke that used to be in 'Get Some In'.

David Janson was it Damo?  One or two of us think he is Mick Jones of The Clash!

David Janson also played a postman in that series with Patricia Routledge.

[Nev]

The bloke standing shoulder to shoulder with the old fella in the cap and glasses looks like the bloke that used to be in 'Get Some In'.

Wasn't that Robert Lindsay?

And the bloke in the cap and glasses looks like an angry Cosmo Smallpiece who also looked like the verger in Dads Army: "Yes, you reverence".

[TheSandman]

I still love old Trinity.

Thanks for posting that PWS. Now my desktop background.

[dave.woodhall]

The bloke standing shoulder to shoulder with the old fella in the cap and glasses looks like the bloke that used to be in 'Get Some In'.

Wasn't that Robert Lindsay?

And the bloke in the cap and glasses looks like an angry Cosmo Smallpiece who also looked like the verger in Dads Army: "Yes, you reverence".

There's an obvious wrong 'un towards the back who isn't wearing a tie.

[Damo70]

The bloke standing shoulder to shoulder with the old fella in the cap and glasses looks like the bloke that used to be in 'Get Some In'.

David Janson was it Damo?  One or two of us think he is Mick Jones of The Clash!

David Janson also played a postman in that series with Patricia Routledge.

That's the fella! The only names I could remember were Robert Lindsay and Tony Selby.

[Ron Manager]

As its football related Tony Selby played the full back in the soap United. I think the bloke from the Oxo advert (Linda Bellingham era) played the other full back. Zac Bishop (based on Barry Bridges apparently) was the star striker. Cant remember who played him though.

[Damo70]

As its football related Tony Selby played the full back in the soap United. I think the bloke from the Oxo advert (Linda Bellingham era) played the other full back. Zac Bishop (based on Barry Bridges apparently) was the star striker. Cant remember who played him though.

I think United was before my time, but I have heard of it. Wasn't Ronald Allen the manager? Not the Ronnie Allen that went on to manage Albion, but the one that went on to manage a far more respected Midlands institution. The Crossroads motel.

[Ron Manager]

As its football related Tony Selby played the full back in the soap United. I think the bloke from the Oxo advert (Linda Bellingham era) played the other full back. Zac Bishop (based on Barry Bridges apparently) was the star striker. Cant remember who played him though.

I think United was before my time, but I have heard of it. Wasn't Ronald Allen the manager? Not the Ronnie Allen that went on to manage Albion, but the one that went on to manage a far more respected Midlands institution. The Crossroads motel.

Yes he was! I must see if the series is still around on one of the nostalgia sites.

[Damo70]

At least he set himself up with a good business after his football management career ended. I always worried about what became of Mac Murphy.

[Ron Manager]

Series gone forever BBC wiped it after two series.

The club was Brentwich United . They played in the second division (Championship)

Wolves complained to the BBC that the series was based on them!

Michael Billington (Oxo advert) and Ben Howard (Curly Parker) played the full backs. Tony Selby must have been a Norman Hunter type .

[Damo70]

I've met the bloke who played the goalkeeper in The Manageress. He is also famous for being the patient in the 'There may be trouble ahead' advert. He also appeared in Corrie as the bloke who tried to make it up with Emily for killing Ernest. I see him pop up in loads of stuff. When I worked abroad years ago, he came out to visit his mate, who I happened to work with. He was a good bloke. If I remember right, they both came from Sheffield, both supported Sheffield United, and both played together in non league. For Frickley Athletic if I recall. The goalie out of The Manageress was the goalie, my mate was a centre half. They both claimed to be good mates with Sean Bean. I can't confirm that as he didn't turn up for two weeks on the piss in Tenerife.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Didn't want to start a new thread, but apologies as these are neither classics in the original sense of the thread or from the Mail.

Last weekend I discovered an old box of my Dad's stuff, including an old photo album of his that I thought I knew well. But obviously not well enough as I found these pictures of Dad performing as part of a gymnastics display at Villa Park. The date in the album is July 1937.

I knew he was a keen (and apparently a very good) gymnast and had won various medals, but he never mentioned this to me or I'd have quizzed him. Sadly I'm 23 years too late.

He's the blond bloke in the middle. They all look as though they've stuffed a pair of socks down their shorts too.



Strike a pose!



And there he is on the left gurning for the camera in what is clearly some sort of bondage event