EastleighSoulBoy

Exactly! And we need to win ours....more importantly.

Not yours or St. Landrew's I bet!

Just to clear one thing up, for all you Pedants out there! Noel Burke was not my then girlfriend!

You just have to keep going back for another read! lol!

All this talk of our fishy friends having six toes and webbed feet, they're so inbred I'm surprised they're not millipedes by now!

Was this the Friday evening game? Us lot out in that then open end in all the rain! It was my birthday that day and I went with my then girlfriend, Noel Burke and his girlfriend in his little blue 1100. What a way to celebrate your 21st! Should have read the omens really, exactly a year later we got married! (Hull at home, Won 1-0).

Ian's Dad was a dockie. Although of Irish extraction I believe the parents were Scottish? Certainly Mrs Mead (a lovely lady R.I.P.) had a Scottish lilt to her voice. Trevor, Teddy & Heather (twins) Ian, Colin & Graham (A.K.A. Rasher) Can't recall the elder sister's name though. Ian always had this nervous laugh as a kid, and his face would glow. Which quite often would get him in trouble for something even though he was innocent. I remember, on more than one ocassion, all us boys being lined up while the teacher would try to find the perpetrator of some misdemeanour. As he told us what had happened Ian would go red and laugh. Confirming, in the teacher's opinion, Ian's guilt!

+1.

They are also doing Canal Trips next summer.

Well, the man deserves a medal! When all around are losing their heads you can count on a Brit to be stoically calm and take charge. I'd love to have seen that programme.

The Ian Mead I know is not really a bad lad at all! I was with him at Orient in 76 when he was arrested. The Police were quite confrontational that day, for whatever reason and Ian, by far the biggest of us, was suddenly grabbed for apparently nothing. I was more guilty considering the crap I was singing etc! If I remember rightly, 3 of us attended Snaresbrook Court in his defence but he was eventually detained for his actions after his arrrest. Actions which we could not witness. There was a very sad parting of the ways when we realised he was not going to be going to Wembley for the Final.

Hold on to that dream!

Hi, maybe a little late but just back from Winchester Hospital. Trees down on the road between the roundabout after Badger Farm and Compton. Probably like it all over. I have put it in this forum as more will probably notice it. Mods please move/delete as appropriate.

:smt082:smt082:smt082 :smt115 I'd not noticed the instruction, sorry, description..........doh!

Not a Bellemoor boy, went to St. George as we were Roman Candles. Strange coincidence about the names though. Oh! keep quiet about the Soul Cellar thread or some members will get frightened and tell their Mums and Dads about the ruffians coming out to play!

That would probably depend if you knew Noel from when he came out of the Army and hung around with us Eastleigh lads (he was a Velmore boy) or whether you knew him from later, in the Warrens. We all used the Warrens also but used to start the day in Eastleigh because back then the pubs opened at 10 a.m. in Eastleigh!

Oh yes! He was a bit of a lad our Ian. Went all through school with him and his brother, Colin, was in my brother's class. We've been in a few scrapes together and also had a few fallings out (Ian is a Celtic bhoy) wisely, on my behalf, stopping short of fisticuffs! Ian didn't get to see the 76 Final in person. He was 'otherwise engaged', if you get my drift.

Very much so! He's a regular on Saturdays in Eastleigh, I think he's on the Management side now as he seems to do a lot of administrative work and the like.

:smt082 In those days we spent far more on beer than we did on getting in to the game. With my limited intake these days and the price of tickets I can't!

Get well soon Carlo.

You're pedantically correct. Which I somehow guessed was the point you were making. Does his religion/creed/nationality/colour (or anything else which you may want to abstractly draw into the debate) make what happened to him right? I severely doubt it.

I agree but each individual has a free will to observe customs in this country. He was plain stupid in using the silence if he wanted to make a point. I watched last night's game on the TV, during the silence (impeccably observed IMO) I noticed two silly girls chatting away. Even 'our own' don't all observe it!

Surely it does? The victim was one of eight Muslim inmates who carried on playing table tennis at Belmarsh, South East London. Take another look: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2724598/Queen-leads-Armistice-Day-ceremony-for-World-War-1-veterans.html#ixzz0We6kMwRC It doesn't make what happened right! I wonder what may have happened if an English prisoner had carried on playing?

+1 A good, constructive comment.

Then we must certainly have met on a few ocassions! Ian Jelly, Noel Burke, Steve Jones, Paul Allen, Maurice Annells (R.I.P.), Ross Shakespeare, Ian Mead and myself almost always travelled together on those coaches. We used to sut at the back, drinking from Party Sevens and bottles of spirits. If we weren't on the coach then we went by train. Do you remember Dougie Goodenough travelling on a few of those coaches? Skate terw@!