Memory Lane Old Photos of Southend United.

[Kevin Hogg]

Hope you framed that Kev and have it hanging on the wall.
Can you put the whole article on Shr.Zone,would love to read it

Yes it is framed and proudly in my toilet Oz. Everybody who needs a pee has to read it!
Will sort the article.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Just dug this out from my old programmes. Great memories from an era when all teams took the League Cup seriously. No squad rotation, if you drew a big club you played their first team.

 

[BARNETBLUE]

Me too!! Happy days...

Thanks for putting that up - the first team of ours I ever saw....

 

[LCBB72]

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Just dug this out from my old programmes. Great memories from an era when all teams took the League Cup seriously. No squad rotation, if you drew a big club you played their first team.

That Southend United team came very close to a major cup upset .

 

[Kevin Hogg]

That Southend United team came very close to a major cup upset .

That cup-tie was a proper cup-tie. Two teams taking it extremely seriously. Just the 24,160 inside The Hall...!

 

[ozzie]

And the North bank FULL of Southend fans..have a great "sing-song".
Blue is the colour...Roots Hall is the name

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Peterborough away 1990. Promotion secured so compulsory to get on the fence. That is until the Evening Echo publish a picture of it and your wife sees a picture of her Dad and her Husband drunk and acting like teenagers. Did I care? Not a jot! Great day out, lots of booze and one of the funniest Podge Morgan tales ever...jeez did he perform that day!

 

[Kevin Hogg]

Southend United on tour. Mexico'86

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Southend United on tour. Mexico'86

Were Wham in town that day, Kev.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

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Peterborough away 1990. Promotion secured so compulsory to get on the fence. That is until the Evening Echo publish a picture of it and your wife sees a picture of her Dad and her Husband drunk and acting like teenagers. Did I care? Not a jot! Great day out, lots of booze and one of the funniest Podge Morgan tales ever...jeez did he perform that day!

Is it the one where he went in a Peterborough pub and spun the landlord a tale allowing him endless free drinks?

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Is it the one where he went in a Peterborough pub and spun the landlord a tale allowing him endless free drinks?

Yep. The landlord thought the Jockweiler was on her way to Peterborough to pick up the bill, he got a bit of shock when she rang the pub and told him she was at home with the baby. By then Podge had drunk his own weight in lager. Cor do I miss that fella, he would have been the funniest 60 year old...EVER!

 

[Nick Prawnby]

I finally dug out this picture from the loft.....1972 v Chelsea, great South Bank picture

 

[WickfordShrimper]

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I finally dug out this picture from the loft.....1972 v Chelsea, great South Bank picture

I miss our south stand Vic Jobson

 

[Chairman Trigg]

Thanks for posting , great memories and a reminder of the potential the club had back then .Chelsea were on the south was this the game that ended the changing ends behind the West? Big Bill's finest game which resulted in his transfer and probably the reason a second promotion season fell apart

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I finally dug out this picture from the loft.....1972 v Chelsea, great South Bank picture

 

[WickfordShrimper]

Thanks for posting , great memories and a reminder of the potential the club had back then .Chelsea were on the south was this the game that ended the changing ends behind the West? Big Bill's finest game which resulted in his transfer and probably the reason a second promotion season fell apart

Ipswich, and Norwich in the 50s 60s and 70s where not a bigger clubs than Southend United FC


Sadly we just missed out on the successes at the time just look we was very unlucky


knocking down our glorious South Bank was just another nail in our downfall today IMHO

Only way out if we move and built a 25000 ground stadium

We all love Roots Hall but its a no way we can move forward

 

[LCBB72]

Thanks for posting , great memories and a reminder of the potential the club had back then .Chelsea were on the south was this the game that ended the changing ends behind the West? Big Bill's finest game which resulted in his transfer and probably the reason a second promotion season fell apart

Yes this was the game that the club put up a metal gate and fence and a police horse to stop supporters from go from one end to the othe , stupid really because we did not play a team like Chelsea every week .

 

[Chairman Trigg]

Still think Roots Hall is an option if the pitch was turned.Would rather Ron come clean and say that FF is now dead and start a redevelopment of the Hall in stages.When you consider the population increase since the 70s the catchment area is there but competition is London clubs,that's why the Hamsters being gifted a ground by the taxpayer was so wrong,the cost of the stadium roof alone would have built Fossetts. Not sure where I read this but when Maplin airport was given the ahead in the 70s didn't the Rubins have plans to make the East a triple decker stand as the Southend areas population was expected to grow by a couple of hundred thousand?

Ipswich, and Norwich in the 50s 60s and 70s where not a bigger clubs than Southend United FC


Sadly we just missed out on the successes at the time just look we was very unlucky


knocking down our glorious South Bank was just another nail in our downfall today IMHO

Only way out if we move and built a 25000 ground stadium

We all love Roots Hall but its a no way we can move forward

 

[RobM]

Why 25,000? No point in having a massive stadium only 25% full on match-days.

 

[Chairman Trigg]

Because success would fill it,and the area could sustain it

Why 25,000? No point in having a massive stadium only 25% full on match-days.

 

[WickfordShrimper]

Because success would fill it,and the area could sustain it

Correct a couple of clubs come to mind... Brighton, Reading all with a little success can now fill their new grounds easily

If we don't have any ambition yes a 9000 home capacity if ok then , BUT we only will be a lower league club