Mate of mine asked me if I'd put this on a few RL sites, thought this was probably the best place for it, hope it's of interest to some of you. www.sabotagetimes.com/football-s ... f-hull-fc/

Mate of mine asked me if I'd put this on a few RL sites, thought this was probably the best place for it, hope it's of interest to some of you. www.sabotagetimes.com/football-s ... f-hull-fc/

Cheers Trace,got all nostalgic now.Can just see Knocker ,Crooks etc giving it rice on the pitch.

Cheers Trace, a good read on the old place.

It brought a tear to my eyes and made me giggle too!!



Thank you for that Tracey, a great read!!

It actually reminds me of the story about the bloke stood on the terrace and tells his mate he wants to pee.

"Well do it in that blokes pocket." says his mate.

"I can`t do that!!"

"Why not?,I have just done it in yours!"

Nice article, I loved that place with a passion and some of my happiest memories are of match days at boulevard, I frequented the thre'penny stand from about 1990-until our move so probably not what you'd call the glory days but still a great place to be even if the crowd was only about 4000 at times.

My big brother took me to my first match in 1959, took my entrance money and showed me how and were to sneak in, many happy memories in and around a Hull institution that will stay with me forever.

Where was your sneak in point??? We used to clamber up the back wall and onto the back of threpenny stand. Then hide out under stands till the place packed out. We used to get caught umpteen times but it never stopped us, it used to be part of a ritual.



Also plenty of times going through the turnstiles under my dads coat even though the bloke on the turnstiles could quite clearly see you

I was once talking to an expro (a real one) who said he used to hate playing at the Boulevard. He said that in the early days he played there women used to stand next to the tunnel and hit the opposition players with their handbags and men used to punch the opposition on their way onto the field. He said it was worse when you came off at the end of the match if you'd won. He said it was much better when the cage was installed!

Reminds me of one of my favourite moments working on the turnstiles. I was on an adult stile and a dad lifted his son over. I thought he was a tad large for an under 5 year old so I asked his dad how old he was. The dad looked at me and said that he was 4 and immediately the lad looked up at him and shouted "No I'm not daddy, I'm 6"!!!!! After I'd stopped laughing along with everyone around, the clearly embarrassed dad was told that his lad could go in this once but not to try it again!!!

thanks trace nice one