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i still have a wembley 78 silk scarf in one of my treasured memories boxes in some friends house or other, one day we will be reunited.


the great harwood one is something of a blur but it involved some tw@t with a dangly earing and driving round great harwood looking for him in the other sw's green hillman i seem to recall chasing him down some alleyway but surprisingly not catching him and then deciding it was better to go and drink some thwaites

one of the funniest memories of the other SW was a weymouth at home game where surprise surprise we had a scoop or twenty in the moss and he was so p1ssed he fell asleep on the chequers end and we carried hurse like with the funeral march being chanted to the golf road when we changed ends at half time.

runcorn in the trophy we got attacked as soon as we walked into the ground and as usual foxy took the brunt of the assault he was led off by the st johns lot and i remember thinking i wish i could go with him. i can still picture my view from the canal end of the ball boucing off mal baileys head and thinking oh sh*t what do we do now, the rest i recalled earlier but what a moment.

 one of the funniest football violence moments was when we played rochdale in the early eighties around falklands war time. ozzy the punk had already upset my school teacher mother with his f**k argentina tea shirt as he called for me to go to the moss for our usual 11am start.

 rochdale unbeknown to me had started an attempt to take the golf road and i had gone for a piss, as i walked past some young herbert leapt on my back and attacked me i shook him off and turned to face possibly 20/30 rochdale fans on my own about half way down the golfroadthinking i was done for. only to hear their leader say sorry ozzy i didnt know you were an alty fan we'll go back to our own end and they promptly all turned around and left such was ozzys reputation.

and just to prove i remeber the football as well we won, had 3? players sent off and vic Callow was the referee and did derek goulding score or was he sent off

somehow the fear made it all the sweeter when we won and boy was i happy to get back on the coach on several occassions

 i dont try to gloryfy those days and am sometimes embarrassed about some of my antics (but we all know that feeling
heh gary/young denis etc)

  but those days were outstanding in my life and i wouldnt change any of it.
the nearest i have felt to it was the play off wins and that oh so sweet equaliser at the new swill field

and in a slightly oiled mood it was all for my beloved Alty FC

drunken ramble over but sw does keep firing the bullets to jog ny hazy memory


what ever happened to ozzy ? was he an alty lad ?

Wouuld be good to do a poll for schools too. Primary and Secondary. It would serve two points.

1) My bizarre interest in stats

2) Could show which schools are hot beds for fans, I for one was given free tickets at primary school and as much as scores of kids running around and not watching the game is annoying I'm sure it has at least a 10% return as a paying support in later life? Actually not sure if the poll would help ascertain this but I'm sure someone with more marketing flair could think of a better angle??

How about adding London Alty as a voting button ;-) WE ARE THE MASSIVE ATTACK!!!

i have clicked other greater manchester area dunno if thats right but i'm from wythenshawe for the record

He's been playing in the Masters Football on Sky for Rotherham - helping them into 2nd place in the Yorkshire competition - and doing rather well.

Is he the first Alty player to play in the Masters?