People throwing bog roll, and other odd behaviour

[usav]

I thought it got foggy second half. If it wasn't that game there was another around that winter time. Sealey definitely the goalkeeper.

I thought maybe the West Ham game on Boxing Day, but I looked that one up and it was clear also.

[cdward]

Kimberly Clark and her single sheets spelt the end of bog roll throwing.

The accompanying opening chant to signal a Knees Up Mother Brown on the back of the Holte was always a bit strange -deh-deh de-deh, deh-deh de-deh, deh-deh de-deh de deh Oi!

[FrankyH]

Kimberly Clark and her single sheets spelt the end of bog roll throwing.

The accompanying opening chant to signal a Knees Up Mother Brown on the back of the Holte was always a bit strange -deh-deh de-deh, deh-deh de-deh, deh-deh de-deh de deh Oi!

Yes the Holte End's Ronnie Hazelhurst remix of the cockney classic.

[Rory]

When was the last time we passed that huge flag about? Maybe it improves the atmosphere elsewhere but I have always sat Lower Holte since 2010ish, and the atmosphere around me has always been 'oh god, here it comes...okay, right...argh christ it's heavy...I'm having a panic attack, fucking get rid of it!'

[Chris Harte]

When was the last time we passed that huge flag about? Maybe it improves the atmosphere elsewhere but I have always sat Lower Holte since 2010ish, and the atmosphere around me has always been 'oh god, here it comes...okay, right...argh christ it's heavy...I'm having a panic attack, fucking get rid of it!'

I'd forgot about that. It's probably not allowed right now because of Covid. I never liked it because it always seemed a bit, um... Newcastle to me.

[Rory]

When was the last time we passed that huge flag about? Maybe it improves the atmosphere elsewhere but I have always sat Lower Holte since 2010ish, and the atmosphere around me has always been 'oh god, here it comes...okay, right...argh christ it's heavy...I'm having a panic attack, fucking get rid of it!'

I'd forgot about that. It's probably not allowed right now because of Covid. I never liked it because it always seemed a bit, um... Newcastle to me.

Yeah, being one of the people who spent five minutes in the shade pushing it along, I never actually got to see it as a spectacle, but I was never taken by it.

[Virgil Caine]

I do remember matches in the late 60’s where honest costermongers would walk around the pitch during half time selling plastic cartons of Ki-Ora orange juice and Waggon Wheel biscuits the size of a dinner plates. These vendors would be doing an apprenticeship which they would hope one day lead them to the dizzying heights of being an Usher/Usherette at the Gaumont Cinema.

[Pat McMahon]

I do remember matches in the late 60’s where honest costermongers would walk around the pitch during half time selling plastic cartons of Ki-Ora orange juice and Waggon Wheel biscuits the size of a dinner plates. These vendors would be doing an apprenticeship which they would hope one day lead them to the dizzying heights of being an Usher/Usherette at the Gaumont Cinema.

And don’t forget the 3 packs of Jaffa cakes!

[Mister E]

There was also the era ( mid to late 70’s) when the Holte End was bedecked with balloons, released to the skies when players ran on the pitch. As they were inflated by lung power rather than Helium the balloons then just sort of hung around or were blown by nature into one corner of the ground, to be pricked by part time prickers thereby ending their brief moment of fame and public admiration.

The balloons era was a thing of beauty, allied with the fact that we were doing so well at the time.

[Mister E]

I remember a scarf being hung from the rafters at the back of the Holte End and then set on fire. This was common during the late 70s and 80s.

Opposition scarf, to be clear!"