Wigan Album
Programme Fair
11 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 30456
Yours truly holding a bunch of programmes. I can't believe it's 30 years ago... Paul Clarke (hidden) Melvin Partridge next to me and Pau,l and Derek Tinsley peering over the shoulders of two young collectors.
No rusty staples, no missing tokens, no team-changes appended: just some of the 'conditions' required by the discerning collector of soccer programmes.
I don't pursue printed collectibles with the enthusiasm of old, but I do feel confident that should Wigan Borough F.C.'s final issue in substandard condition come up for sale, then Ron would be onto it like a bat out of hell.
Philip ANY Wigan Borough programme<g>
And always supplemented with a glossy Football League Review tucked in the middle.
You never know, Ron, one might just pop up in the most unexpected of places.
Poet. The 'Review was certainly 'something to read later', and the matchday programme's contents more satisfying to read during the build-up to kick-off - "They don't make 'em' like that any more."
Philip, the game was often so dull that relief was found in either reading the Review or baiting the lone Bobby during his circumnavigation of the touchline.
We stood on the grass terrace behind the goal waiting the Coppers return from his continuous laps of the pitch. On turning the corner flag a whistled rendition of the Laurel and Hardy theme tune would greet him as he progressed before us.
Not to be daunted the Officer would adopt a Penguin style walk and twirl his truncheon in a Chaplinesque Keystone Cop manner. Then we endured the game for a while until he came round again.
Your decision to stay until the end of those dull matches was admirable, Poet, and made worthwhile by the easy-going Grassy Bank, and the antics of a playful policeman.
I like your aptly-named poem "D-Day", shown recently on P-a-D, by the way; a sober telling - with a hint of zest - of Springtime's harbinger.
That's kind of you to say Philip and most gratifying coming from such a fine writer as yourself. Cheers.
Whatever happened to it Poem, the kind of gentle humour you describe when you could take the Michael out of a Policeman and rather than arrest you he would join in and have a laugh with you? Sadly, so many people now seem to be living on the ragged edge all the time.
It's important to keep a sense of proportion, a sense of the ludicrous and the ridiculous.
Dave Clarke not attend that one, Ron?
I'm positive that Dave Clarke would have had a stall there, in fact I think he organised it. Not seen him for years and at one time he practically lived at our house.In fact he did for a few days, when his girl friend kicked him out What a lucky escape she had <g> I think he lives down south in Devon or Cornwall now?