Sitting and standing at the Bridge

Is that the old bloke who used to walk round with a over coat folded over his arm!
Yeah, might be! The Paperman was a small fella, probably in his sixties, who used to go in the Benches. He'd sit there with half a dozen newspapers under his arm and watch the game from the opposite end we were attacking.

You'd often see him after the game, wandering along Fulham Road with even more newspapers. Legend!

 
Yeah, might be! The Paperman was a small fella, probably in his sixties, who used to go in the Benches. He'd sit there with half a dozen newspapers under his arm and watch the game from the opposite end we were attacking.

You'd often see him after the game, wandering along Fulham Road with even more newspapers. Legend!
An old CFC friend of mine blamed those concrete benches for giving him piles, perhaps he should have taken a bunch of papers to sit on!

 
Remember the bloke with the moustache who sold CFC lottery tickets on the main Shed entrance steps for years. Really friendly fella?

What year did the OB observation platform arrive? Cue Laurel and Hardy whistle and the Harry Roberts song
In the white wall ?. I started going regularly in 79-80 before then I went with cousins or one off games and I'm pretty sure it was their then. What year was the fence put in all the way along the west side early or mid 80's ?

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In the white wall ?. I started going regularly in 79-80 before then I went with cousins or one off games and I'm pretty sure it was their then. What year was the fence put in all the way along the west side early or mid 80's ?

I started in the Whitewall 78 and pretty sure it was in place. Can’t remember when the fence went in- reckon mid 80’s. Probably after a West Ham showing. Then again the last time they went all across the Shed was 77-78. The night game 78-79 was a token effort, early season 80 they were by the Teabar, don’t remember they having another pop till 84 when they left the West Stands seats and that was mostly down the front.

I think the North Bank Highbury had a fence put down the middle after the pikies got in there with a smoke bomb in 82. Maybe it was a reaction to that? No idea basically...

 
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