TheBogEnd » Memories of Sandy Lane

DeePee · 09/4/2015 12:03 pm

No Mr "Ultra" I don't mean that well known comedian or popular beat combo !

The last programme of the season will feature a section about "Memoirs of Sandy Lane" so if you have any particular memories of your times at Sandy Lane : Bunking in under the fence, looking out from your grandad's window over the terracing, standing on the Bog End's Bog roof to hurl abuse at ............. etc., etc.

Doesn't matter how short your thoughts are, there' ll be space for them somewhere (in the bin ??)

Send 'em in to tmuprogramme@gmail.com as soon as you can - Press day is Thursday April 23rd 12 noon !

Thanks one and all

Bog End Ultra · 09/4/2015 12:48 pm

Help me out here fellas.

What were the names of the two blokes who worked in the tea hut at the Sandy Lane end of the ground. I think Ian Bullock used to help out in there but I seem to remember there were two regular guys, I think one of them was a Sunday morning referee, but I might have dreamed that bit Roy maybe ? was it Roy ?

endofthelane · 09/4/2015 1:06 pm

What about Colin Gaitt who used to run the supporters club when I first started going. They had a little brick hut near the side door to the bar. I think his dad was on the commitee - Arthur Gaitt.

alanj · 09/4/2015 1:57 pm

I met, and dated a girl who used to work in the tea bar, I dont remember her name but she lived in Meopham Road.

But then the wife found out and it all went Pete Tong ( I made this bit up)

Bog End Ultra · 09/4/2015 2:30 pm

alanj wrote:
I met, and dated a girl who used to work in the tea bar, I dont remember her name but she lived in Meopham Road.

You don't mean ' Slender ' Glenda ? Died a few years later, her body riddled with syphilis, not THAT girl in the tea bar surely ?

Peterw · 09/4/2015 4:42 pm

Colin and Arthur Gaitt were TAMUFC "mafia" back in the day, ably assisted by Colins wife Sue...it was best not to get on their wrong side

I signed up to the supporters Club in 1979 in answer to an ad in the programme to have volunteers meet in the tea bar adjactent to the stand

Those names Bogster are Roy Rumens and Steve McTaggart, both of which stepped down from the supporters club when we moved to IF. Lets not forget Eddie Epps who still attends home games

Roy lives in deepest Sussex now and worked in Mitcham until last year when he retired

alanj · 09/4/2015 5:31 pm

It`s funny you should say that "Cricket" for all these years I have been blaming the wrong girl.

Routemaster · 10/4/2015 9:29 am

Sadly I never went to Sandy Lane and I truely regret it now. For five years I worked nearby in the Halfords store and would walk by the ground to and from work and see a bit of the corrigated iron that's fallen off the wall in the morning only for it to be repaired by the evening.
As for the glory days, I don't think I was even thought of, yet alone born.

DeePee · 10/4/2015 3:51 pm

Keep 'em coming chaps - all good stuff.

endofthelane · 10/4/2015 4:35 pm

Whatever you do, you can't leave out the "square sausages"

DeePee · 10/4/2015 4:36 pm

..............tell us more "endo"

endofthelane · 10/4/2015 4:47 pm

No, it was just something that Gary mentioned earlier. The tea bar in the far corner used to sell a type of "burger" except that the meat was actually a square sausage. Unique amongst football tea bars I think! As Gary said, he thinks Roy got them from Bejams.

Tartan Terror · 10/4/2015 7:31 pm

endofthelane wrote:
Whatever you do, you can't leave out the "square sausages"

Aye, can we bring the square sausage (known as lorne sausage where I come from) back please. They were fantastic.

Tartan Terror · 10/4/2015 9:31 pm

gary walker wrote:
Iceland still sell them. A pound a bag...Bondy told me ,honestly... Ok I know I am a fat boy ! 🐖

Looks lovely too... http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/mckechnie-jess-scottish-recipe-lorne-280g/p/13459

Mikem · 11/4/2015 10:01 am

The nuclear radiation powered sausages and burgers were the best!

DeePee · 14/4/2015 12:39 pm

Can anybody relate the story of the centre circle cyclist in the fog please ??

alanj · 14/4/2015 2:01 pm

I believe it concerned a one legged referee

endofthelane · 14/4/2015 2:09 pm

Unlike the one-eyed one that we had on Saturday!

alanj · 14/4/2015 2:26 pm

Are you sure he had an eye?

Bog End Ultra · 14/4/2015 4:18 pm

alanj wrote:
Are you sure he had an eye?

Yes, but unfortunately only a Jap's one.

alanj · 14/4/2015 4:29 pm

No wonder he was going around in circles

Peterw · 14/4/2015 6:51 pm

DP

Hector was the culprit, a notorious figure around Mitcham, someone your mum told you to keep away from.

The game was Woking at home in the SSC. We had won the competition the previous three years. The ref was under some pressure to get the game on as there was an assessor in the stand. From the KO the game was not playable as you could not make out the goalie from behind the goal

Hector was convinced to get on the pitch with the bike to ask the Ref what was going on.... the Woking goalie was apparently left on the pitch at HT as he was not aware the game had finished

All you could hear was the refs whistle blowing for what we realised after was the goals in a 0-3 defeat

DeePee · 14/4/2015 8:01 pm

Not helping chaps

Bog End Ultra · 15/4/2015 10:10 am

Peterw wrote:
DP

Hector was the culprit, a notorious figure around Mitcham, someone your mum told you to keep away from.

Are you suggesting Hector was a 'Bummer' ?

alanj · 15/4/2015 11:33 am

I found him a very nice man! honky tonk
Was it only 32 years ago Gary, It seemed longer than that to me.