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Post by aldermanwise on Dec 5, 2011 13:35:19 GMT
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Post by Belgian Yellow on Dec 5, 2011 20:47:16 GMT
Should get a good view of the game!
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Post by concretebob on Dec 6, 2011 15:50:54 GMT
Wonder if the local residents would rather have a football ground there or not these days?
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Post by collyox (banned) on Dec 6, 2011 16:23:24 GMT
Wonder if the local residents would rather have a football ground there or not these days? silly cunts bought houses there and then proceeded to moan about the parking on match days .....hope the parkings worse for them now....EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2011 17:59:26 GMT
The parking used to be fine around Headington until they stepped in with residents parking. I was born there but have dismissed any idea of moving back there. At least you can find parking near the Kassam. Only been fined once for parking there illegally on the grass
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Post by dabigfella on Jan 8, 2012 17:55:00 GMT
Please! The destruction of the ground where my footballing education was brought up on is bad enough without more crud being built on it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2012 20:02:42 GMT
I used to live in Margaret Road opposite where Headington plied their trade years ago Parking is the absolute pits now Can't even visit and park these days unless they have a driveway
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2012 17:20:50 GMT
Yep just moved from there and residents parking is a joke in Headington
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2012 17:30:13 GMT
Where were you before you moved and is it any better now? I have considered moving back to Oxford but will probably have to wait. It would not be the best time to start a business back there. If we moved to Headington I think we would have to consider giving up driving like someone I know who has just moved from York Road to Lime Walk
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Post by lincolnyellow1 on Jan 13, 2012 23:05:26 GMT
Walking from Brookes College par park Quick couple of pints in the White Horse Up the slight incline of the London Road Crossing the Beech Road Always stopping at the entrance to the London Road Stand next to the Shell garage for a moment, then start the walk to the turnstiles, quickening up with every step. There was always a small queue waiting to pay and always 3 or 4 members of the TVP waiting to frisk you I don't know why but there was always a sense of relief when you got the other side. There was always a gallop up the 10 or so steps up into the London Road, i don't know why, probably the anticipation of the day or seeing how many visitors were in the cookoo lane or seeing faces that you knew. Make my way to my spot, level with the six yard box side line behind the goal just in front of the highest barrier and watch it fill up. It could be -10 degrees on the pitch but it was always so hot in the London Road stand. The smell of cigs, the bustle and the constant moving from side to side as late comers tried to get to the same area and then..... greatest feeling of all.................................. A GOAL BEING SCORED RIGHT IN FRONT OF US............................ We ended up 5 or 6 rows from where we started, picking fans up that had fallen over, the celebration and songs seemed to last for ages, the noise was so loud our ears would be ringing for days and it would probably be the end of the week before our voices got back to normal.............................. . THE MANOR GROUND WILL HOLD MANY MANY MEMORIES FOR 1000's OF INDIVIDUALS....................... . I miss it however time "HAD" to move on........................
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Post by carefreeoufc on Jan 14, 2012 0:22:39 GMT
Family live on Windmill Rd and it's a right b&st&rd, stop round to pick something up and a scratchcard must be filled out. Got there late boxing day, forgot, went out 2hrs later and some nobber had done us with a ticket. Once the allocation of 24hr passes is used up you have to pay for more.
It infuriates me and I hate those scratchcards
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Post by tomox on Jan 15, 2012 10:39:08 GMT
Would have loved to experienced the atmosphere at the Manor...
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Post by scummerator on Jan 18, 2012 12:51:16 GMT
LY1:
Nearly the same mate, but from the Brit'
Roy Quarterman would put Max Bygraves grating out "Bye Bye Blackbird" on the jukebox, his signal to tell us all to F*** *** to the game.
Bellyful of beer safely on board, John MacKiernan would've already had 50p out of us all for guess the crowd, can't remember anyone ever winning!
Quick dash for fags at the shell garage and back to the driveway, loot some chips off some poor sod who'd queued at The Golden Kitchen for the last half an hour and into the ground, buy a quidsworth of 10p half time tickets off old John Mason, queue at the top of the drive, start breaking neck for a p***!
Straight into LRT bogs, keep left and as you went in watch the numptys dodging all the p*** dripping down at the front of the refreshments bar from the terrace above!
Into the left side, stand just to the right of the steel post, shout, bellow and abuse anything (Laurel and Hardy tune for the OB who just smiled as they walked behind the goal in front of the moat) and everything for 90 minutes - in Derek 'Werewolf Hales of Charlton Athletic's case it was always the whole 90 minutes!
Didn't we love the always a scummer/pancake racer Chris Kamara when he visited too! lol
Back to brit' after game through car park door to celebrate/reflect on the draw/drown sorrows (delete as applicable)
COYY
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