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During a match in about 1993 we had a couple of early injuries in the first half. Ian Holloway was warming up in front of the Paddock and asked if any of us had brought our boots along.
My happiest memories were standing in the East Paddock watching the great team of the early 90s take apart teams like Spurs, Leeds and Arsenal. The Kenny Sansom thunderbastard against Arsenal and the Simon Barker equaliser against Liverpool were probably the highlights, but the one that makes me smile is Gary Penrice's magnificently violent half volley past Ian Walker a couple of years later.
There were problems across the entire team on Saturday, but the stand out one for me was that we simply didn't have a midfield.
Of course, Field and Madsen were in the midfield but not once do I recall us progressing the play through the middle, which is no surprise when Field is ultra defensive/cautious and Madsen is doing his Invisible Man act.
All we ever seem to do is play it across the back, slowly and clumsily, get it wide to players like Saito and Smyth and then hope that something comes off. We don't have any attacking threat or pace through the centre and we are almost as predictable to watch as we are dire. To compound the problems, we don't have a good striker - Frey has done ok but isn't going to get many and Celar may never score, at least while we play like this.
It's going to be a very long season and we can only wish for the speedy return of JCS, Colback, a fully fit Chair and possibly Varane (?).
Whenever we get knocked out of a cup, there is no way of knowing who we would have drawn in the next round. It's not as if everything would have happened in the same way if we'd won.
I guess so to a degree, and maybe we've got to know about so many clubs after moving up and down the divisions, but I knew who was in division 2 back in the good old days when we were riding high(ish) in the league. I think.
A good mate of mine, who I've known since 1990, is a Spurs fan and expressed surprise when I told him that QPR were in the Championship. He said "oh, that's not too bad. I thought they were lower than that." I told him that we'd been in the Championship since 2015 after relegation and hadn't been in the third flight since 2004, but I don't know why I bothered.
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