For the football not in your cot.
I did but I’ve never seen one this big and he was using it. Norway fan at the biathlon.

Also had a stool.

I had one painted claret and blue by my dad.

Still got one. Use it to scare squirrels off the bird nuts

You're more likely to scare the nuts off the squirrells

Had one as a lad.
...and a rosette.

You're more likely to scare the nuts off the squirrels

Here is a Blackburn Rovers fan Rattle

Yeh, I had one in the late fifties and, like Leisure, mine was also painted claret and blue. I used to stand right on the railings to the right of the Beehole End goals with my pals cheering and rattling on my heroes.

I also had a claret and blue scarf, onto which my mum had knitted the names of Pointer, Mac, Connelly etc.

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:44 pm

Also had a stool.

Had a claret & blue rattle and also a stool to stand on

Had one painted claret and blue and in my teenage years would stand behind the Cricket Field end goal except when Liverpool or Everton were the visitors.

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:08 pm

Had one painted claret and blue and in my teenage years would stand behind the Cricket Field end goal except when Liverpool or Everton were the visitors.

Me too, Silky, except I was in the old Brunshaw Road stand paddock. I were posh..

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:08 pm

Had one painted claret and blue and in my teenage years would stand behind the Cricket Field end goal except when Liverpool or Everton were the visitors.

Same here, it was quite loud as well, and a claret and blue top hat, late 60s.

I had one as a kid for a few games, now I get the same sound from my knees

I had an old ARP bell. I had more offers of cash to move than all the Nigerian princes can muster on email.

Are rattles banned now?

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:45 pm

Are rattles banned now?

VAR still reviewing.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:08 pm

Had a claret & blue rattle and also a stool to stand on

It got everywhere back in the day!

my father bought me one, used to shout at me to use when we watching, think it was more for him than me !

KateR wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:01 pm

my father bought me one, used to shout at me to use when we watching, think it was more for him than me !

I had a trainset like that!

lol, I know, my cousin got a scale electric fancy set up for Christmas once, I remember my dad and his brothers playing with it all day, when my cousin moaned and his mom started shouting, the guys said he could play with it all the time once they left so it was only fair they could have a go for one day !!

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:52 pm

You're more likely to scare the nuts off the squirrells

Still got the one I got for Christmas in 1964 !!!
Makes a hell of a racket. Claret and blue of course!

another who had one painted claret and blue. they were strange things when you think of it !!!

Roy Cropper has a Burnley one.

Yes I had a rattle that I painted claret and blue in the early 60's and stood on the longside, does anyone remember the plastic stars you could buy with the picture of your favourite player on them , I had about 5 or 6 pinned to my bobble hat

Crewe claret wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:37 pm

Yes I had a rattle that I painted claret and blue in the early 60's and stood on the longside, does anyone remember the plastic stars you could buy with the picture of your favourite player on them , I had about 5 or 6 pinned to my bobble hat

Ha ha, no, I think you dreamt that. Never heard of those stars.

I had a rattle, rosette, bobble cap and of course the obligatory scarf. Well decked out

I had two but could never quite manage to use them at the same time - couldn't work a hula-hoop either!

KateR wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:07 pm

lol, I know, my cousin got a scale electric fancy set up for Christmas once, I remember my dad and his brothers playing with it all day, when my cousin moaned and his mom started shouting, the guys said he could play with it all the time once they left so it was only fair they could have a go for one day !!

That sums up my Christmas present of a trainset!

I came downstairs and there it was, all set up on it's own board. Before I got to play with it, my uncle and aunt arrived. Uncle gets down with dad and they turn it on and away it goes. Then they decide that they could change the layout! Up comes all the track from the board and away they go. You can imagine the time that took....magnify that for a young lad, yet to play with his brand new trainset!

The trainset is in my loft now! Don't think I ever got much time with it! Trix. 3 rails, which is unusual. Must flig it one day and free myself! I remember I had the metal farm animals to play with!

Made one in woodwork at school!

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:08 pm

Had a claret & blue rattle and also a stool to stand on

Eeww, although with people crammed in like sardines, its no surprise.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:08 pm

Had a claret & blue rattle and also a stool to stand on

I had the same and used to stand at the back cricketfield end but in a small corner looking down onto the corner flag by the longside

When I first went on it was with my dad and my granddad. We stood on the Bee Hole/Longside corner but the stool was always taken for me to stand on. Crazy when you think of it now.

I also had a rattle and remember the plastic stars.

Pad1951 wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:09 am

I also had a rattle and remember the plastic stars.

Thank you I knew I hadn't dreamed about the plastic stars

Had a rattle and a rosette many years ago. What ever happened to them?

I had a rattle, but my gran used to use it more than me. Had a scarf and bobble hat my Mum knitted for me. And I had a Turfy Topper badge, which I still wear.

Used to sit on my dads shoulders till I got too heavy then moved on to the obligatory home made stool painted claret and blue. Vividly remember sitting on his shoulders at Leeds Rd cup tie in 57. Had a rattle but like everything my dad made me it was too heavy !! My home made sledge was like a tank and went half the speed of other kids sledges plus it needed 2 to pull it back up the slope !!! Mum of course knitted the scarf and bobble cap. My dad would have been a 100 in 9 days time and I still miss him every. Would have been awesome to discuss the Vydra and J Rod goals with him

Probably my first football memory is of my two elder sisters sporting the player stars, one had John Connelly, the other Ray Pointer.

My buffet was sky blue and made by my dad! . (I wasn't posh enough for a stool!) I would take up position on it on the Longside wall. I can still picture it now, Happy days!

" Who had a rattle " well it kind of means something quite different here in Ireland i must say , now i am sure you can guess .

I still have one in the loft, It was an old air raid warning alarm, it has an issue stamp on it(My grandad was a warden so I'm guessing it was his) painted claret and blue and used to have ribbons on it. Weighs a ton but makes a right good racket.

Had a couple in my back yard but the coyotes ate them. Snakes that is.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:32 am

When I first went on it was with my dad and my granddad. We stood on the Bee Hole/Longside corner but the stool was always taken for me to stand on. Crazy when you think of it now.

Must have been in the same area at similar times. Had to be up against the wall so no one could push me off. Also had to wait till the crowd went before leaving.

I had one which was used to full effect in a game against Spurs in 1962 which we won 2 1. My Dad and I caught the 1 o'clock Ribble from Littleborough and were in our Wing Stand seats by 2pm (cost 7 shillings and 3/6) total 50p in today's money. I seem to remember the police allowing people to sit behind the goal line as the ground was full. Crowd of around 45000!

Bradford city 2 burnley 2 February 1960

Brian Pilkington did!

seen here celebrating his 80th birthday in 2013

I thought this photo was apt particularly today as it's Brians funeral.

RIP Brian!

My Dad told me that a relative( I think) of ours took one to the 62 cup final. As the players ran onto the pitch he accidentally knocked his Dad out with it. His Dad missed the whole game laid up in an emergency room.