Elm Park

[strap]

Apologies if this has been noted before - but just found this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIE9OzqTBzY

[Half Biscuit]

Magic memories - thanks.

[Tilehurstsouthbank]

Ah those were the days! That suicidal surge down the Southbank when we scored!

[jd82]

Spotted - 16yo jd82 running on the pitch v Norwich

[Tony Le Mesmer]

TLM there at 7:16 celebrating Senior's tap in at Leeds Road

[Half Biscuit]

HB on the goal line taking photos at the Simod SF penalty shootout...

[Jackson Corner]

Never seen that before. Great to see Maurice Evans Frank Orion plus the players. There is a piece on the opening of the Mad Stad hard to believe it’s nearly 20 years. Won’t be long before a generation of fans will only know football at the Mad Stad.

[Nessa From Eldorado]

Apologies if this has been noted before - but just found this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIE9OzqTBzY

[percy_freeman]

Oh the smell of those burgers whilst standing up to your ankles in piss.........

[under the tin]

Never seen that before. Great to see Maurice Evans Frank Orion plus the players. There is a piece on the opening of the Mad Stad hard to believe it’s nearly 20 years. Won’t be long before a generation of fans will only know football at the Mad Stad.

I think I did the same as you did, in that I had a good old reminisce watching two or three of the following regional news shows.
For me, it goes to highlight what might have been.
Back then, we certainly had the best new stadium in the south of England, and in terms of facilities for players, attractiveness to up and coming talent, we were light years ahead of our footballing peers in the region, but instead of kicking on and cementing that position as the region's top dogs, our "edge" was slowly eroded, the peer group caught up, and when the Swiss bankers went shopping for a football club, they chose bloody Southampton and their red photocopy of the Madstad.

Ah well.

[Forbury Lion]

Below is a comical attempt by a spammer to get some "legit" posts and to become legitimised

Elm Park is a suburban district in east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. Located 14.3 miles (23.0 km) east-northeast of Charing Cross, it is identified as a district centre in the London Plan with several streets of shops and a priority for regeneration. Prior to the construction of the extensive Elm Park Garden City development in the 1930s it was a scattered settlement of farms in the south of the parish of Hornchurch. Elm Park has been connected to central London by the electrified District line service since 1935 and the planned development of the area formed part of the interwar private housing boom that was interrupted by World War II. After the war Elm Park expanded with social housing and it has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

[strap]

Below is a comical attempt by a spammer to get some "legit" posts and to become legitimised

Elm Park is a suburban district in east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. Located 14.3 miles (23.0 km) east-northeast of Charing Cross, it is identified as a district centre in the London Plan with several streets of shops and a priority for regeneration. Prior to the construction of the extensive Elm Park Garden City development in the 1930s it was a scattered settlement of farms in the south of the parish of Hornchurch. Elm Park has been connected to central London by the electrified District line service since 1935 and the planned development of the area formed part of the interwar private housing boom that was interrupted by World War II. After the war Elm Park expanded with social housing and it has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

And of course it has it's own tube station ...



(I'll get my coat ... )

[BR0B0T]

Oh the smell of those burgers whilst standing up to your ankles in piss.........

the piss seems to get deeper every year

[Norfolk Royal]

Oh the smell of those burgers whilst standing up to your ankles in piss.........

the piss seems to get deeper every year

Remember in the late 70s having to actually swim through it to get a half time Bovril.

[AthleticoSpizz]

You swam? I actually snorkelled through it.

Shame that we had to lose the Narizz Fizz as well as those botulism burgers when we moved.....parking was always less of a problem lol

£15? What kind of a p1ss-take is that?

[Ark Royal]

Stalactites formed in the bogs behind the TE. Took great interest in their downward progress over the decades.

[Marino13]

i watched this last night. fond memories of the rendezvous with mike kearney. i loved the sweet and sour crisps they used to sell in there....