Somerton Park

[Forester]

No good arguing your point of view any more "Forrester" as you clearly are not going to win. Stooping to making pedantic comments is no good either.

You and others have clearly failed to understand my original post(s).

I said that the place wasn't "lovely". Nowhere have I said that I didn't like the place.

I have yet to see a post in this thread in which Somerton is described as being "lovely" by anybody.

Plenty of people have said that they "loved" the place and that is something with which I cannot and would not argue (indeed I have spent many a happy (and sad) afternoon or evening there myself). But that is a completely different argument and not one to which I contributed.

Take your mind back because I could have swore that your first post was in response to Bad Boy Buddy remarking that Somerton Park was "lovely". So there is one who thinks it was lovely and I do as well.

Oh, dear.

Look at Bad boy Bubby's emoticon in his first post and read his subsequent comments.

By the way, in the interests of clarity, my understanding of the word "lovely" is to mean "very beautiful or attractive".

[CPT HenryMorgan]

I really don't remember spending a great deal of time considering how tatty Somerton was although undoubtedly that was the case. I suppose had you 'won' a guided tour around the ground (it wouldn't have put much of a dent in your diary) in the daylight with no match on, then I'm sure you would have been hard pushed to come away regarding it as one football's great stadiums!

For me though it was the 'home' of football as I saw it. The sights and indeed smells remain with me to this day. The people who stood in the same place every game almost as though it was their reserved spot and eye-balling anyone who dared to be in their place. Praising as we all did our favourite players and being less generous to those who weren't. The smell of the pasties and the Bovril and the great clouds of smoke that wafted out from the sliding windows of Paddy's Bar behind where I stood as a kid with my Dad. Looking back I always preferred night games with our 07:15 kick-offs. Perhaps subconsciously it was because you couldn't see the ground itself so well and the dark filled in the gaps with the often sparse crowd.

Whatever the case Somerton had an almost 'homemade' feel about it which I suppose you don't tend to get with modern-day grounds with their concrete stands and indentical tip up seats.

I suppose looking back Somerton was a bit like some blind dates. Certainly not much to look at but nonetheless gave you a smile and warm feeling if you scored!!

[Guest]

Don't forget Forrester, that old (but very true) saying that love is in the eye of the beholder.

[Forester]

Don't forget Forrester, that old (but very true) saying that love is in the eye of the beholder.

Did you mean beauty?

[Susan Boiler]

Don't forget Forrester, that old (but very true) saying that love is in the eye of the beholder.

Did you mean beauty?

I just knew that you being a pedantic tit that would pick him up on that ffs

[Forester]

Don't forget Forrester, that old (but very true) saying that love is in the eye of the beholder.

Did you mean beauty?

I just knew that you being a pedantic tit that would pick him up on that ffs

But it was pertinent to the debate.

Anyway, I didn't start it. All I did was agree with Bad Boy Bubby's first post. I didn't ask to be picked up on my comment there by someone suggesting I was saying something esle.

[michael]

dont bite mate

[JonD]

Transposing letters and leaving the error uncorrected? Tsk. This is a slippery slope you're on, Young Mr Forester.

[Forester]

Transposing letters and leaving the error uncorrected? Tsk. This is a slippery slope you're on, Young Mr Forester.

Never noticed it.

It was getting late is my excuse.

[Stinky Montoia]

I think we didnt notice that SOmerton was a bit of a dump coz everywhere we went was a bit of a dump.... which grounds were nice in the 70s and 80s? All toilets had the smell of death and urine about them. All food bars were the same (50,000 flies cant all be wrong). It really was a case of same shit, different car park.
Football is poncey now, thas why women go.. You wouldnt see many women back in the old days due to the facilities being fkin orrible. In fact, footy grounds were almost like a sanctuary from females. It was chuffin great .