The Reserves

[st albans fox]

On 06/04/2025 at 12:59, smudger63 said:

This is the case. When I was a kid, long ago, and didn't go to away games, my dad would sometimes take me to the reserve game at filbert Street, on the Saturday afternoon while the first team were playing away.

Yep

sat afternoon watching the reserves in the seventies 

if you had a season ticket then you got in for nowt 

usually quite a few first team players on view because only one sub allowed with the first team and always the odd player coming back from injury   

[worth_the_wait]

I think the first match I ever went to down Filbert St was a reserve match - early 70's.

 

No idea who it was against, but it was a high scoring game, and i just remember sitting in the old Main Stand along with a few 100 other folk.     

 

The thing I do remember, as it was right at the end of the season ... was the state of the pitch.   

Not much grass on it,j mostly mud.   The only grass was near the 4 corners of the pitch!

 

 

 

Edited 7 April by worth_the_wait

[Bert]

Only ever remember FNF. Tickets were like £3? Unless you got some through schools. Felt like a real treat because football was nowhere as accessible back then as it is now. You had MOTD Saturday night, one live game from the football league Sunday afternoon, and a Serie A game on channel 4. 
 

Getting to go to the stadium feeling like you were at a proper football match was amazing and back then money was tight for a lot of families also. 

[SemperEadem]

4 minutes ago, Bert said:

Only ever remember FNF. Tickets were like £3? Unless you got some through schools. Felt like a real treat because football was nowhere as accessible back then as it is now. You had MOTD Saturday night, one live game from the football league Sunday afternoon, and a Serie A game on channel 4. 
 

Getting to go to the stadium feeling like you were at a proper football match was amazing and back then money was tight for a lot of families also. 

Pretty sure it had a free McDonalds voucher on the back of a ticket too.

[Foxes1]

Remember going to the combination cup final v Spurs in the mid 60's can't remember the final score though.

[iancognito]

No surprise that clubs have ridiculous injury lists these days when so many players in the stiffs aren't getting practice time.

 

They always bang on about players getting injured because of too much football but thanks to the squad sizes now some players only play about 200 minutes a season or once every couple of months. Maybe if they were getting run outs against Mansfield or Chesterfield in the Midlands Combination Division, their delicate hamstrings might be able to withstand a hit more exercise.

[Sly]

I use to go with my dad.

 

it was dirt cheap and a good laugh.

 

The carling stand was always half empty though. 

[HarryDee8]

Play em, simples