"what a referee" and other threepenny stand classic songs that aren't allowed these days.

Mustard yellow with a red Fila borg trackie top, the colour combinations of the 80's where a thing to behold.
Colouring in the writing on the side of the adidas trainers with a marker pen.
Burgundy leather blouson jackets that if it rained the colour ran into your new tacchini t-shirt.

Great thread guys.

Some things I miss:

- Being spoilt for choice for sports shops in Hull (Arco, JJB, First Sport, Sports Division etc).
- Same with CD shops
- Winter rugby (in some ways!). Okay the game's moved on which is great, but there was a special close-knit feel between the die-hard people who turned up on bitterly cold days back then.
- Sports Mail
- Matchday programmes being a must-have for all your club info, rumours etc (not bought them regularly for about 14 years and they're pretty much redundant IMO).
- School days
- Doing a paper round every week for a fiver, and then consequently feeling loaded when you did a spare round and got a tenner that week.
- Pat Sharp and Neil Buchanan being the kings of kids after-school TV
- Car boot sales: loved being nowhere else from about 7-13. Magical places with a mixture of families earning some spare cash, Del Boy-wannabes, and people just looking for bargains. Got some great RL stuff in my time.
- EA Sports releasing great rugby games (on the Mega Drive for example).
- Games of slam
- Knock-off ginger, lol.
- Croggies
- RL shirts with proper collars and buttons.
- Boothferry Park (a magical place in Hull and I hate it when people knock it - a great ground doesn't necessarily have to be modern IMO).

half a crown fry off fish dock

ferry to new holland from pier

Gaumont saturday minors

sex with my ex mates missus

scrap butty's
jr's burger bar after tower
bunkers hill (gordon street end)
horrendous away days (whitehaven etc)
town being full and lively on a saturday nite
new town after sunday rugby games...

Beano comics? Fred talbots weather map and beige coloured cars

rlBoulevard still on Google Mapsrl, for now, at least.

(rlBoothferry Park pitchrl looks a bit rough, mind you .)

Walking to games from Rayners.
Taking my habitual place in the Threepenny on the 25 yard line at the back of the stand, Gordon St end. It was God given.
Tight close games when you could feel something special about to happen.
Derby games like when that red prat emptied a bag of grass cuttings in the centre of the pitch, fun times could still be had.
Proper refs, ones that took the banter and gave it back.

Before all day opening, getting on the ferry at 2.00pm on a Sunday and staying on it until opening time at 7.00pm. As long as you never got off the other end, you only paid one return fare. Spending the afternoon playing cards and drinking cans of Hull Brewery Export

Just remembered another magical place as a kid - 147 Club / Celebration Centre on Spring Bank! British wrestling shows, Fun Junction, Laser Quest, Indiana Jones Assault Course - that place had it all.

police boys club in boulevard,next to the library,with the great johnny whitely keeping everybody in line.

George Best footy boots n Leeds Utd sock ties like flags how did we ever run
Mums chip pan
Bikes... Chopper,tomahawk and the Raleigh Grifter( it wouldn't ride itself like the advert but we kept trying)
Curly worlys were over 2foot long
7p bus fair to school

going to the the chippie and asking for a cut fish and three.for the youngsters who are reading this ,that means a piece of cod and threpence worth of chips.