davieG Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 Before Mandaric Wot No Flags! Picture taken from Bentleys Info from PexSoxFox This photo was taken in 1928 three years before I was born, it is of the record crowd at Filbert Street for the 5th round FA Cup tie with Spurs, The crowd was 47,296 and as you can see fans used any means to get in the ground, This shot is of the Filbert Steet (North Stand) End, The general feeling was the gate was nearer 55,000
rams r4 sh*ggin Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 Before Mandaric Wot No Flags! Picture taken from Bentleys What a way to make an entrance into the ground
darko2k7 Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 amazing picture , Flat cap salesmen must have made a fortune back then
davieG Posted 29 November 2010 Author Posted 29 November 2010 A lot of those guys would have been involved in the1st World War and were working in factories that had never heard of H&S so those sort of antics would have been child's play.
jonah Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 Is he going up or down ? looks like a she to me??? maybe she works on the pukka pie counter.
I am Rod Hull Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 A crispy £5 note for the one who spots a women...
Wycombe Fox Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 Where are the stewards ? I think the steward is the one directly under the guy on the wire. It looks like he's shaking his fist at him!
Zingari Posted 29 November 2010 Posted 29 November 2010 Spiderman came to every home game back then and always did the match report for the local paper
Fosse Boy Posted 30 November 2010 Posted 30 November 2010 Always love seeing that photo. Daft seeing stuff like that when tonight stewards were threatening lads with permanent bans for banging the back wall of the stand.
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