Rambling on

A few prices from 1973 with the introduction of Vat.
Take home pay £30 pw
Crisps 5p
Coke 8p
Iron £4.50
Colour TV £300 !
Meal out £1
Week in Tenerife £65
Pint 13p
For the next ten years everyone said " How much is that in real money?".
Only went to Portsmouth once, what a ramshackle ground Fratton is/was. But what a noise, I think the loudest ground I've been to.
Sunderland, Roker, the famous roar was there but not as loud as Fratton.
Burnden (Bolton ) OK but went to an FA cup semi against Leeds,which we lost. When we came out we went under the railway bridge and it was jammed, if anyone went down they weren't getting up again, scary.
Goodison was class, and so was the team with Ball, Harvey and Kendal in the middle, Joe Royal up front.
Trips to Norwich and Ipswich were a mixture of good fun going, and tough coming back. Carrow was neat, Portman old fashioned, tiring coming back, it's a hard drive, particularly as Mick would want to stop for a pint periodically, and a slash ten minutes after.

The North West was, and is , the hotbed of footie. City and United, Liverpool and Everton, Burnley, Bolton, Blackburn, Blackpool were all top flight. Preston, Oldham and Carlisle had been.
Main Road was a shed, but I liked it. Anfield didn't strike me as special at the time, but it was before their glory days.
I liked the midland trips best, not too far, they all had a sardonic sense of humour, Molyneux not bad, Villa Park very good, Stoke a dump, the Hawthorns great atmosphere, at least when we were there and Jeff Astle was banging them in.
The worst ground I thought was Bloomfield (Blackpool) hard to say why, it was very open, always seemed to be cold and windy, plus Mick loved Blackpool so we always had to pub crawl along the front with me drinking Coke. I was always the driver as they didn't have cars.