The post thread mirrors the exact Graffiti sprayed on Bloomfield road bridge back in 1968/9. As a 13 year old i encountered a day at Bloomfield Road that i still remember vividly. I have lots of memorable moments that have defined my life supporting Blackpool including being at Deepdale when we won promotion. however as a young lad i recall me and my school mates getting off the bus at the bottom of Bloomfield road and walking up and seeing that piece of iconic graffiti. Whats a 'boot boy' we all wondered!. As usual we entered the ground about 2ish , always got there early to savour the build up and atmosphere. Naively we didn't expect many away fans as Portsmouth was such a long distance away. Surely nobody travels that far to watch a football match, do they?. After paying our 1 shilling and 11 pence to get in (poetic license invoked on the exact admission cost), We walked up the back of the Spion Kop , Blackpool fans always seem to favour the right hand stairs back then, or maybe the Junior turnstile was located there. Anyway back in the day , Blackpool fans used to get there quite early to ensure nobody took the 'Kop'. halfway up the stairs we could here lots of chanting and noise, thinking it was our fans. On reaching the of the stairs and entering the Kop, we soon got the answer to what a 'boot boy' was. There in the middle of our Kop was about a hundred lads that might well have landed from another planet. We were mesmerised, just stood there in awe taking in the scene. Big lads everyone of them with a shaved head, big red snarling faces, dressed in grandad vests, levi jeans with turn ups held up with thin braces and steel toe capped boots. obviously we were just a little gang of schoolkids and no threat to them whatsover. they did growl at us though. they all stunk of fags and booze. They were absolutely terrifying. Whenever we got really tough away followings we used to go and stand at the front of the Kop near the pitch. Normally our tough boys used to arrive about 230 and wade in . I dont recall what happened that day though. Back at school on Monday, that,s all we talked about and wanted to be a skinhead boot boy.!! Im expecting a different experience tomorrow when i come out of the Armfield club!!