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Even though I'm not British I still get nostalgic for stuff like this, must be my age. These footballers lead normal lives but are worth 10's of......... Thousands. Spiffingly good stuff.
Imagine the freedom when you are nobody and you do not want to be anybody, you are simply present, freed from all demands and illusions.
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Reflections of a bygone era on 09:14 - May 18 with 2542 views
Funnily enough I spotted that last night. A lovely little film which looks like the early 60s. It reminded me of the days I started going to Loftus Road, though that was later on. We all romanticise our past to some degree but it was a great time to be a football fan.
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Reflections of a bygone era on 10:56 - May 18 with 2257 views
I thought of my old dad. I often wonder what he'd make of things now - football played when TV tells them, no tube at the weekend, security guards on shop doorways, cars with exhausts that sound like machine guns….
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Reflections of a bygone era on 11:09 - May 18 with 2220 views
Reflections of a bygone era on 09:36 - May 18 by dmm
Funnily enough I spotted that last night. A lovely little film which looks like the early 60s. It reminded me of the days I started going to Loftus Road, though that was later on. We all romanticise our past to some degree but it was a great time to be a football fan.
It’s from April 1960 based on the match and final score. My Dad had moved up to London by then and started going to the occasional Spurs game with his mates, wonder if he was in the crowd somewhere.
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Reflections of a bygone era on 11:50 - May 18 with 2100 views
I love those Look at Life programmes on the Talking Pictures channel. They’re only 15 minutes long but are a snapshot of life usually in the 60s. They made dozens of them.
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