Post by Dave on Jan 24, 2009 11:02:01 GMT
Of all the photos put on the forum so far, for me this one put on by Barton Downs is simply fantastic and really makes you think about the real history of our club and how things have changed so much over the years
I would expect just like me, you have often thought what it would be like to have lived in a different age, maybe you have felt you would have liked to have lived in the middle ages or even long before in the days of the romans. The problem is when we look at life today with all the mod cons and for me the world with PC's and the Internet in them, I don't think given a choice we would swap our life we have today, with one from the past.
Younger members will read stories from the older members of games long past, games they went to and became part of the history as they were there and lived to tell the tale, while the younger fans are part of the modern history and you wonder in years to come if they will be on a forum somewhere talking about todays game some 30 odd years from now.
One thing for me the picture shows, is how things really have changed for fans back then watching a match and todays fans who now go to Plainmoor. The question is would I rather be a fan then, than one in todays more modern and so called improved world.Firstly the first feelings I get from that picture is one fans who did not have to live with all the things we have to now.
No yellow lines and no evidence of any stewards and I bet they kept their bottle tops ;D younger fans just sat on the edge of the pitch and no one seems bothered about it, or feel they have to throw their power around and get them behind the rail. Look what happened only a few games ago when Stuartb and chelstongull were talking with me 15 Min's before the kick off. Not blocking the pathway in anyway they were told to move and such events do not help you enjoy the Plainmoor experience.
You would expect that back in the days when the picture was taken, that going to support your local team was probably so more important an event in your social life, today we have far more things we can choose to spend our leisure time on and we can also afford to do so many different things.While we look forward todays match, would fans back then have an even greater sense of excitement as a game drew near.
Was the game back then completely trouble free? was there no need to have major crowd control in force and is there any stories about problems between rival fans and if not just when did all the many problems with fans fighting etc start in the history of the game.
While I really am looking forward to a few hours time, I really do feel in my heart, that I may well have preferred to be a fan back then, I just get the feeling it was just a pleasure to go to Plainmoor and you never had to put up with the things we do now, like being treated as thugs or a potential trouble maker.
Lets hope for a great game and enjoy the history making today, that we will be a part of and lets hope for a result that will write the name of our club even bigger in the history books, the day we made even more history and got into the 5th round of the FA Cup, for the first time. I hope you all have a great day and a safe journey home after the game,wherever you have to travel home too.
I would expect just like me, you have often thought what it would be like to have lived in a different age, maybe you have felt you would have liked to have lived in the middle ages or even long before in the days of the romans. The problem is when we look at life today with all the mod cons and for me the world with PC's and the Internet in them, I don't think given a choice we would swap our life we have today, with one from the past.
Younger members will read stories from the older members of games long past, games they went to and became part of the history as they were there and lived to tell the tale, while the younger fans are part of the modern history and you wonder in years to come if they will be on a forum somewhere talking about todays game some 30 odd years from now.
One thing for me the picture shows, is how things really have changed for fans back then watching a match and todays fans who now go to Plainmoor. The question is would I rather be a fan then, than one in todays more modern and so called improved world.Firstly the first feelings I get from that picture is one fans who did not have to live with all the things we have to now.
No yellow lines and no evidence of any stewards and I bet they kept their bottle tops ;D younger fans just sat on the edge of the pitch and no one seems bothered about it, or feel they have to throw their power around and get them behind the rail. Look what happened only a few games ago when Stuartb and chelstongull were talking with me 15 Min's before the kick off. Not blocking the pathway in anyway they were told to move and such events do not help you enjoy the Plainmoor experience.
You would expect that back in the days when the picture was taken, that going to support your local team was probably so more important an event in your social life, today we have far more things we can choose to spend our leisure time on and we can also afford to do so many different things.While we look forward todays match, would fans back then have an even greater sense of excitement as a game drew near.
Was the game back then completely trouble free? was there no need to have major crowd control in force and is there any stories about problems between rival fans and if not just when did all the many problems with fans fighting etc start in the history of the game.
While I really am looking forward to a few hours time, I really do feel in my heart, that I may well have preferred to be a fan back then, I just get the feeling it was just a pleasure to go to Plainmoor and you never had to put up with the things we do now, like being treated as thugs or a potential trouble maker.
Lets hope for a great game and enjoy the history making today, that we will be a part of and lets hope for a result that will write the name of our club even bigger in the history books, the day we made even more history and got into the 5th round of the FA Cup, for the first time. I hope you all have a great day and a safe journey home after the game,wherever you have to travel home too.