Welcome to the first of the remissions "Those Were The Days"

How better to start than right in the present and indeed the future! - the Galpharm Stadium or as the Examiner's Henryk Zientek [a former soccer player of mine if he of the Town supporters club team are one and the same] put it the "Pharm".

Our beloved Leeds Road home of the "Cow Shed", lets bring the old and the new totally together and let's bring the "Cow Shed" into the "Pharm". Where better for it than the singing section of the Kilner Bank.

The possibilities are endless!

New décor, new chants, new songs ... with a Tony Cows, sorry Carrs (!) here and a Efe there, here a Lloyd, there a Yates, everywhere a Boothy ... got the picture? Or should I say tune?!

Sadly, it is a long time since I graced a Town match, Wimbledon at Leeds Road when the Dons marched on and upwards in their final match before promotion.

Hopefully there will still be a few out there who still remember me, the 'nutter' with the kids and wife at all Town's matches.

Happy, happy days ours to remember in the weeks and months to come, hopefully you'll share with me and together we'll have a great time.

E.I.E.I.O

That following the promotion for Town to the top flight in the 1969/1970 season, the Town management was going to segregate the "Cow Shed"? It was planned to spilt the Town end into two, down the middle of the goal, to contain both home and away supporters.

But it was stopped after Town fans protested about the planned decision, stating that this was a "Town end" and to segregate would be sacrilege. They also pointed out to the club that they risked losing the vocal support the end made and also the safety and security for all supporters.

Thankfully the management of the club listened, and the vocal support given by generations of Town fans from the "Cow Shed" end for 24 more years before the move to the new Stadium in 1994.

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