10 Dec 2018 16:46:21
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, And Finally.....The Good Old Days?
10 Dec 2018 21:12:35
I do believe there was a guy who played in a band I like called the travelling willburys who used to play in the Beatles Ed 😂
Enjoyed that Ed.
{Ed001's Note - I don't know mate, did he do the voice of Thomas Tank? I only really know that one and Lennon because me dad always looked the spit of him when I was a kid.}
10 Dec 2018 22:22:56
Ha no that was ringo star, I remember Lennon and the other guy who was more famous for his deceased wife’s veggi sausages. The travelling willburys were the fourth beatle George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom petty and Roy Orbison. I bet ed01 senior was a lady’s man then. Are you not from Liverpool? Or just a Liverpool fan or have I got that awfully wrong 😂.
{Ed033's Note - Ed001 is from Liverpool.
11 Dec 2018 06:54:54
Made me think back to growing up with the likes of Bertie Mee, Don Revie, Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and the best EVER manager Bob Paisley.
My first memory of watching a game was my gran and grandad letting me get up again to watch a Leeds United game in black and white on their TV. I’m sure it was one of those Inter Cities Fairs cup games they played in the evenings.
Not that I’m old or anything! 😂 great read by the way. 👍🏼.
{Ed001's Note - growing up? Ah come on mate, you aren't fooling me, I have met you, you would have been late 50s when those days happened..... ;-)
11 Dec 2018 07:44:55
That first game would have been on sports night with Harry Carpenter Stoner :-)
Great Article Ed001 mate, really enjoyed that and of course you are right that for every generation the old days were the good old days where the Politicians told the truth and people pulled together more and you cold jack your job in at 10am and have a new job by dinnertime.
The travelling Wilburys! " Everybody needs somebody to lean on " With Roy the boy stealing the show, now there was a band you don't get the likes of today :-)
{Ed001's Note - I am so glad for this Arsenal site, the moment I feel old I can just come on here and I suddenly feel young again.}
11 Dec 2018 08:19:35
You are but a young whipper snapper yet Ed001 mate,
Look after your knees, you'll miss them when there gone and WEAR SUNSCREEN:-)
{Ed001's Note - yes grandad!}
11 Dec 2018 08:21:00
Yes that was it 62, far better memory than me! 🤪
And Ed01 mate, 🖕😂.
{Ed001's Note - oh that's not very nice!!}
11 Dec 2018 09:03:47
And Match of the day with only two games per show Stoner? And one of them was quite often a second division game :-)
I'm not sure if it was better or worse for it, it seemed brilliant at time but memory can often be better than reality, I was flicking through the TV chanels a couple of weeks back and found the Invaders on some strange free view channel and thought brilliant, but some things are most definitely better left to memory :-)
11 Dec 2018 09:18:57
I know mate, how times have changed! 😂
It’s like when you watch a film you loved when you were a kid, see it now and think really.
To be fair some of the not so old films now look so dated with modern tech, I’m half way through the new blade runner and it makes the original 82 version look like it was made in 62!
I thought you knew I wasn’t nice Ed01 mate. 🤪😂.
11 Dec 2018 10:16:50
It's weird mate i know, times change quickly, I was watching fools and horses a little while back and some of the dialogue just wouldn't be allowed now on mainstream TV today and Friends too would have to be censored, and some of those episodes were only in the 2000s!
Mind you to me a snickers bar will always be a marathon and don't even get me started on Starbursts, opral fruits if you please! :-)
11 Dec 2018 14:42:39
My sister was the channel changer, I was the antenna, I got to stand on the chair and hold the antenna so we could get reception. Unfortunately the only good spot was above the TV, so I didn't get to watch anything.
11 Dec 2018 18:33:26
In the 70s like most people we had a black and white telly with a round click dial for changing chanels much like today's washing machines have, there were only 3 chaneld bbc1 bbc2 and itv, our dial broke leaving us stuck on BBC 2 per permanently,
Wow we really looked forward to Monday nights at 9pm and watching Alias Smith and Jones, it made such a change from the open university :-)
12 Dec 2018 23:17:07
Gunner, i can remember the time we used to sit and watch the radio before we had a telly. Jimmy clithero and steptoe and son, on a sunday afternoon. Them were the days.
