Nostalgia

[medievalmickey]

I read Joe's post regarding non Pies members. I find this a friendly site where inter club rivalry can be put aside and indeed discuss non football related topics.

I am currently wallowing in a pleasant nostalgia zone because I am aware that on a stormy Monday 11th November 1963 I rode my 50cc Paloma Flash racing moped from Westbury (of White Horse "fame") to the Pavilion in Bath to see a new blues band that I liked called The Rolling Stones.

Joe's post indirectly led me to recall a First Round FA Cup match between Trowbridge Town - Southern League - and Coventry City. Coventry won 1-6 but I remember meeting a group of their supporters who gave me a pie. They seemed like old men but that's what it is like when you are 17. This match was on Saturday 16th November 1963 so that was a good week.

Years later, when I worked for a local Peugeot dealership, Jimmy Hill was guest speaker. I had a microphone that Jimmy used, dropped and dented. He was the centre of attention and his wife was left "sitting in the corner". My wife and I chatted to her and eventually Jimmy came to join her and I had a really enjoyable conversation with him. He was intelligent, interesting and very knowledgeable. I mentioned the 1963 cup match and he remembered it and knew the result.

I think Super Ram and Tony H will understand these ramblings: I do not wish to live in the past but it was exciting being a teenager from 1962 to 1966.

Best wishes to all posters on this site. Long may the banter continue.

[super_ram]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be(sorry),.Mickey.I was 13 in 1960 and therefore spent my teens growing up in that decade.I left school and started work in 1963.It was a great time to be a teenager.The Beatles,Stones etc.England win the World  Cup  and The Rams back in the top flight.

[Chris]

I always reminisce on the past, I have strong feelings about not forgetting certain things and especially since my memory isn't always the best (quite often far from it). I don't know what's really wrong with nostalgia because stories used to be passed on all the time, it's only in modern times people tell you to shut up dwelling on the past. You can post more things like this, I certainly found it to be interesting personally.

Never a fan of Jimmy Hill myself, he just annoyed me and I have to admit it included him covering games.

That said, it's quite different when you meet people. Unless the person turns out to be exactly how you think they would be, this case for me was covered twice by meeting Neil Warnock. Very rude person, smug(polite term) and very self-important.

It's nice meeting opposition fans, I've enjoyed meeting those who I've had the pleasure of meeting and one day I'd like to say hello to you.

[Fan of Big Tone]

Don't get me started on nostalgia, we'll be here all night .

 

I first discovered the Rolling Stones when I heard Satisfaction drifting from next door's kitchen as I played football in the back yard. I was hooked and have been a fan ever since.

 

When you get to a certain age you start to look back on your youth and things you got up to (good and bad) and you yearn for those lost years.

 

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. Robert Brault

[Drivingmenotts]

You lot are making me feel young :-) but I love the stones as well and one of the greatest moments of my life was seeing them on copacabana beach in Brazil. And amazingly it was free!

[Fan of Big Tone]

You lot are making me feel young :-) but I love the stones as well and one of the greatest moments of my life was seeing them on copacabana beach in Brazil. And amazingly it was free!

Wow, that really must have been great.

I saw them live at Main Road, Manchester and Don Valley, Sheffield, not quite the same somehow.