I hope everyone liked the review/obituary. I had fun writing it and it made me remember some happy days.
As it was getting long, longer than I planned I left out one story that still makes me chuckle. Halfway through our promotion season, the last time we were in the lower league, I was standing at the shed end with some mates for all the home games. These were the days where you could just turn up and pay on the door and there was never a problem getting in.
Anyway, towards Christmas Uncle Ken decided to offer all of us half price season tickets. Four of us decided it was too good to deal to miss so we jumped it. We got great seats in the middle of the east stand middle tier. It was only halfway through the process that the four of us, with obviously less than half a brain, realised that in fact it was still a full price ticket as he was offering us a half price ticket for half the season that remained 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. We still proceeded and they were my tickets forever thereafter
Thanks Craig - great tribute. I recall sending him £25 for some ground-related appeal while complaining about a ban on Chelsea fans going to away matches when we were in Division 2 (I am old school!). He wrote back personally, thanking me for the £25, and then explaining why my suggested solution to the ban was totally useless (!) and presenting his own (vastly superior) solution. I knew then why he was such a great businessman/football administrator - and I was never cut out for the role.....
RIP and thanks Ken - you saved our club. And thanks Craige for your memories
I hope everyone liked the review/obituary. I had fun writing it and it made me remember some happy days.
As it was getting long, longer than I planned I left out one story that still makes me chuckle. Halfway through our promotion season, the last time we were in the lower league, I was standing at the shed end with some mates for all the home games. These were the days where you could just turn up and pay on the door and there was never a problem getting in.
Anyway, towards Christmas Uncle Ken decided to offer all of us half price season tickets. Four of us decided it was too good to deal to miss so we jumped it. We got great seats in the middle of the east stand middle tier. It was only halfway through the process that the four of us, with obviously less than half a brain, realised that in fact it was still a full price ticket as he was offering us a half price ticket for half the season that remained 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. We still proceeded and they were my tickets forever thereafter
Thanks Craig - great tribute. I recall sending him £25 for some ground-related appeal while complaining about a ban on Chelsea fans going to away matches when we were in Division 2 (I am old school!). He wrote back personally, thanking me for the £25, and then explaining why my suggested solution to the ban was totally useless (!) and presenting his own (vastly superior) solution. I knew then why he was such a great businessman/football administrator - and I was never cut out for the role.....
RIP and thanks Ken - you saved our club. And thanks Craige for your memories
Very funny