Memories of West Paddock

Anyone read Stan Ternents book where he says assisting Bob Stokoe he had a brick chucked at him from the west paddock?.
 
Dave62 said:
The first thing that sprang to mind was those bloody awful toilets, but also the odd looking small stand of seats in the NW corner.
It looked like it held about 60 people?

Over the years I've watched us from every stand except for that stand, I can't recall if it was reserved seating?
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It was. I sat in there for a few games with Tony Green's lad as a primary school aged lad.
 
mad-link said:
Here's me in the West Paddock circa 1988 with Mason Kid and Rob (from Chipping, like me) directly above the sliding defenders left arm).

A few memories:
A Wolves fan in Old Gold, first game of the season not against Wolves, wandering past me with a can of beer and a 12 inch fat boy spliff.

We were losing by a goal and everyone was streaming to the exit as we got a corner. 'Don't go' I shouted 'we are going to score!' Everyone stopped, turned to watch as the corner came to bog all, and then left. I felt like Moses for a good 15 seconds.

Waves of abuse aimed at Tony Cunningham, who had just left us for 'the bigger club' Bury. We lost.

Beating Chesterfield 3-0 in the snow, I leant in to the away dug-out and said to their ashen-faced manger 'this won't do much for your job prospects!' He looked at me with pure hatred and said 'Job prospects?!?' As he was rising to punch my lights out. I scarpered, and have always regretted being a cocky shyte and being really nasty to a man I didn't know, a bloke under pressure, with a mortgage and kids etc. I learnt something that day.

Oh, and the Bristol Rovers pitch invasion when their third hit the top corner. Mental. They beat Bristol City to the title.


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Seen that pic before. My brother's talking to my old man (cap on) & I'm stood just behind.
When my dad passed we sprinkled his ashes on the pitch. Blackpool immediately went on a good home winning streak noted by everyone we stood with because of our twelfth man 😉
 
mad-link said:
Here's me in the West Paddock circa 1988 with Mason Kid and Rob (from Chipping, like me) directly above the sliding defenders left arm).

A few memories:
A Wolves fan in Old Gold, first game of the season not against Wolves, wandering past me with a can of beer and a 12 inch fat boy spliff.

We were losing by a goal and everyone was streaming to the exit as we got a corner. 'Don't go' I shouted 'we are going to score!' Everyone stopped, turned to watch as the corner came to bog all, and then left. I felt like Moses for a good 15 seconds.

Waves of abuse aimed at Tony Cunningham, who had just left us for 'the bigger club' Bury. We lost.

Beating Chesterfield 3-0 in the snow, I leant in to the away dug-out and said to their ashen-faced manger 'this won't do much for your job prospects!' He looked at me with pure hatred and said 'Job prospects?!?' As he was rising to punch my lights out. I scarpered, and have always regretted being a cocky shyte and being really nasty to a man I didn't know, a bloke under pressure, with a mortgage and kids etc. I learnt something that day.

Oh, and the Bristol Rovers pitch invasion when their third hit the top corner. Mental. They beat Bristol City to the title.


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That club call number is something I'll never ever forget.

First and last place you'd ever hear 'mooted' said.
 
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The only thing that sticks out to me was the stench of piss in the urinals and the taste of cough candy or Nuttalls Mintoes.

Funny how smell and taste memories stay longer than visual ones.
 
I was a ball boy for a game in 85/86 ish against Northampton (I think). One of there players ran over to me to get the ball for a quick throw in, but I threw the ball back over his head. The West Paddock all cheered me, I felt like a hero 😂.
I think we won the game 3-1
 
Also remember a game against York in Billy’s first season, when we were on that run of winning every home game. We attacked the Kop in the 2nd half so that end of the West was rammed. We scored in the 90th minute (Groves header?) and the Kop end of the west went wild and spilled onto the pitch. Brilliant stuff
 
Hatchet Man said:
The city that came across the pitch that day , thought they would relieve me of a huge Union Flag we took to the game from the Boar's Head, they started off sprinting across the pitch and slowed to a dead stop ! 🤣 a few got pushed in by some our lot and were soon dealt with ! ... F.A Cup i think ?Pretty sure they got a late equaliser ? ... went to the replay at Main Road, we got beat, can't remember the score.
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Hatchet, I think the game they were on the pitch at half time was our '84 2-1 win. The 1-1 game with their fourth down and one yard to go equaliser was '88 when we lost the replay.
 
Qblock said:
Also remember a game against York in Billy’s first season, when we were on that run of winning every home game. We attacked the Kop in the 2nd half so that end of the West was rammed. We scored in the 90th minute (Groves header?) and the Kop end of the west went wild and spilled onto the pitch. Brilliant stuff
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We turned up late and couldn't get in, so we stood on the kop with the York fans. It was like the alamo, Dean Kealey had a blinder in their nets.
 
Torquay in 1985 celebrating promotion, Champagne corks popping in the paddock, you couldn't move. There's a brilliant picture on the old photos thread taken from the Kop of the pitch invasion that day.

Andy Preece jumping into the Paddock at a Reserve game and kicking a mouthy fan who was giving him grief. Still not sure why I was there, but I definitely was.

Losing to Bury 0-5 in 1999. Cushions lobbed onto the pitch from the Directors Box and Mr Kipling tarts stolen from the post match food spread under the stand in frustration following a heavy defeat . 😉

Mosser taking on three Port Vale fans in 1993 when they were taking a liberty. They didn't last long !!

Happy Days.
 
Dave62 said:
It was 2-1 (a Weds night iirc), early 1988?
Might be wrong but I think Paul Stewart scored against us

I can still remember my relief at getting through those back alleys and back to my mate's car without being ambushed
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Don’t he miss a penalty and Blackpool fans started singing only 1 Paul Stewart
 
Dave62 said:
It was 2-1 (a Weds night iirc), early 1988?
Might be wrong but I think Paul Stewart scored against us

I can still remember my relief at getting through those back alleys and back to my mate's car without being ambushed
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Paid an urchin 50p to look after the car on some wasteground. Got back to find it was the only car still there and somewhat surprised to see it in one piece.
 
Potts Must Go said:
Torquay in 1985 celebrating promotion, Champagne corks popping in the paddock, you couldn't move. There's a brilliant picture on the old photos thread taken from the Kop of the pitch invasion that day.

Andy Preece jumping into the Paddock at a Reserve game and kicking a mouthy fan who was giving him grief. Still not sure why I was there, but I definitely was.

Losing to Bury 0-5 in 1999. Cushions lobbed onto the pitch from the Directors Box and Mr Kipling tarts stolen from the post match food spread under the stand in frustration following a heavy defeat . 😉

Mosser taking on three Port Vale fans in 1993 when they were taking a liberty. They didn't last long !!

Happy Days.
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I think we lost 0-5 to them 2 years on the trot. Didn't Paul Barnes score 3 for them and did so for York when they won 5-0 at BR.

The PV game was mini fcb's debut aged 2.
 
I watched the 84-85 automatic promotion season in the West. It had some great moments, my favourite being the Torquay pitch invasion when we celebrated on the pitch.
 
CGP1 said:
Hatchet, I think the game they were on the pitch at half time was our '84 2-1 win. The 1-1 game with their fourth down and one yard to go equaliser was '88 when we
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CGP1 said:
Hatchet, I think the game they were on the pitch at half time was our '84 2-1 win. The 1-1 game with their fourth down and one yard to go equaliser was '88 when we lost the replay.
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You could well be right CGP1
I would have been at all 3 games but I'm mid sixties now and memories not what it was ! 🤣
I did watch the replay on YouTube this morning and you can see my Union Flag hung on the fence to the right of the goal !
Borrowed from the Telefusion Offices on Preston New Road ! 🙄
I painted BLACKPOOL F C
On it in my Dad's garage ... not very well I may add !
But yeah City fan's thought it would make a good trophy .... but came unstuck big style ! 🤣
I had a mate , City fan stood on the Kop that day and he said to his mates ... that lot will get leathered if they jump in there .... he wasn't wrong ! 🤣 The colours made it safely back to the Boar's. 🧡
 
Jdseacidre81 said:
Me and a mate got two turnips from Carleton Grocers before the No14 bus arrived, bowled them out infront of him from South West corner as he came out the tunnel😁
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I remember seeing the turnip’s 😂 so I must have been there. Can’t remember anything about the game though.
 
If you got through a game without your seat collapsing you’d done well. Must have been around 1990 as I only went in the seats because I had my 4 year old lad with me. “Has it finished yet” after he’d munched through what I’d brought with me. Probably halfway through the first half. Also remember the rumbles people made stamping their feet on the wooden floor. To say it was old & decrepit is the understatement.
 
David Eyres turning full backs inside out in front of me. Andy Garner barreling down the left especially against Burnley.
Hurling abuse at Oyston even back then
 
Jdseacidre81 said:
Me and a mate got two turnips from Carleton Grocers before the No14 bus arrived, bowled them out infront of him from South West corner as he came out the tunnel😁
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It was so classic how they just emerged!! ‘Bowled’ is a great description ha ha! Memories!!
 
SirHarryThomson said:
In a previous life I used to watch pool from the West Paddock and enjoyed standing behind the away dug out. One game I remember was playing Wimbledon when Dave Bassett was their manager. John Deary got sent off and Bassett immediately changed the Dons set up and they scored immediately. I was really impressed. Thing is I could never imagine Critch being pro active with game management it's a major flaw in his game.
Also older fans can probably remember when we had the dugouts moved to the East but can't remember which manager requested that. West Paddock was ace.
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Sir Billy Ayre
 
Started going there after block Q in the south, used to get packed and could hardly move. They did the buy a player game and you had to get tickets . It was empty in there but the gate was twice the usual amount. The start of Oyston fiddles
 
Memories of the West Paddock are that we often watched decent football. Lower league football but you often went home entertained.

Unlike now.
 
As a kid I used to collect a tangerine box from.the turnstile operator. Not coloured tangerine, but in the 60s Tangerines out in crates.
I used to take the box to the wall in the west about 5yds off the dugout towards the South. I would tip it on its end so that I could the stand on it and see over the wall.
 
Macseasider said:
Memories of the West Paddock are that we often watched decent football. Lower league football but you often went home entertained.

Unlike now.
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I thought it was ok at the time but looking back they must have been worse than todays lower league mens elite athletes. Lets not big them up comparing them with todays footballers.
 
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