Worried Man Blues
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Hello chums, haven't seen this story before so thought I would share it with you…..
Early 70s defo before the Rochdale game some match, don't know which one. I was standing 3-4 rows down from the main North Stand entrance, that would be the big hole in the corrugated iron, when a piece of paper lazily floated over my head. Now it was unusual to see any piece of newspaper in the North Stand but what made this even more unusual was it was on fire. It drifted down and alighted, pun intended, on some blokes head 6-7 rows in front of me just as it reached it's fullest conflagration.
Now there you are watching a game of football and suddenly your head's on fire…..Que massive windmilling of arms and a large gapness appeared around him as his mates left him to spontaneously combust. Don't know how the paper got into the air or whether it was a freak or controlled didn't see what happened next as me and 100 others were p1ssing ourselves on the floor.
Still makes me chuckle, were you there, are your ears burning? Expects flaming……..
Early 70s defo before the Rochdale game some match, don't know which one. I was standing 3-4 rows down from the main North Stand entrance, that would be the big hole in the corrugated iron, when a piece of paper lazily floated over my head. Now it was unusual to see any piece of newspaper in the North Stand but what made this even more unusual was it was on fire. It drifted down and alighted, pun intended, on some blokes head 6-7 rows in front of me just as it reached it's fullest conflagration.
Now there you are watching a game of football and suddenly your head's on fire…..Que massive windmilling of arms and a large gapness appeared around him as his mates left him to spontaneously combust. Don't know how the paper got into the air or whether it was a freak or controlled didn't see what happened next as me and 100 others were p1ssing ourselves on the floor.
Still makes me chuckle, were you there, are your ears burning? Expects flaming……..
