We are a more civilsed bunch nowadays.
We are a more civilsed bunch nowadays.
Burnley's Turf Moor was an intimidating place to go. I got hit by a dart there. It lodged in my back and I placed it by the goalpost.
This is out of the bruce Grobbelaar autobiography Life in a jungle, he goes on to say the police were horrified when he pressed charges
due to the mass of paperwork and time and that the dart thrower got a 12 mth ban, he also says the dart was not the worst, a billiard ball
and a potato with razor blades embedded in it was thrown at him from the Stretford end!
Birmingham apart most of the media moans nowadays ( name calling etc) seem pretty tame compared to the early 80s.
This is out of the bruce Grobbelaar autobiography Life in a jungle, he goes on to say the police were horrified when he pressed charges
due to the mass of paperwork and time and that the dart thrower got a 12 mth ban, he also says the dart was not the worst, a billiard ball
and a potato with razor blades embedded in it was thrown at him from the Stretford end!
Birmingham apart most of the media moans nowadays ( name calling etc) seem pretty tame compared to the early 80s.
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That dart got Bruce in the back of his leg during the second leg of the League Cup semi final at Turf Moor in the 1982-83 season. I was there behind the nets when it happened. To his great credit, he did nothing more than calmly remove the dart and place it behind the goal line. I assumed it must have just lodged in his sock rather than the calf of his leg otherwise he may have sought medical attention!
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Yes , I also remember that. I always stood behind the net on the Beehole from 1981.
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If Mark Lawrenson didn't have such long legs he'd have had much more to worry about than what was being lobbed at him from behind the goals.
If only.
If only.
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I remember when Bruce came to Turf Moor in the early 90’s.
He was having brilliant banter with the kids in the front row of the Endsleigh Stand - he was pulling faces, blowing raspberries and lying down on the edge of the 18 yard box pretending to sleep.
No keeper would do that these days. Can you imagine the twitter outrage! He’d be suspended for bringing the game into disrepute.
He was having brilliant banter with the kids in the front row of the Endsleigh Stand - he was pulling faces, blowing raspberries and lying down on the edge of the 18 yard box pretending to sleep.
No keeper would do that these days. Can you imagine the twitter outrage! He’d be suspended for bringing the game into disrepute.
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Yep, Taylor? so, so close to making it 2-0 on the night and definitely game on, as they say.Goody1975 wrote:If Mark Lawrenson didn't have such long legs he'd have had much more to worry about than what was being lobbed at him from behind the goals.
If only.
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It was a bit lively all round The Turf and town that night. The first leg was the same. A far cry from modern football.
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And yet I remember getting more excited about going to matches then than I do now. Whether it's because I'm older and more blase about the whole thing I don't know.Bop wrote:It was a bit lively all round The Turf and town that night. The first leg was the same. A far cry from modern football.