[Archived] Utterly Beautiful

[Friarsnig]

Whatever happened to Wimberley?

And did he ever get a girlfriend in the end?

[bob fleming]

Whatever happened to Wimberley?

Blimey! You pulled that name out! Every single week he got stick. "Oh Wimberley, Oh Wimberley..... " How did it go again?

[Friarsnig]

"Who's yer girlfriend,

Who's yer girlfriend,

Who's yer girlfriend, Wimberley,

Havn't got one,

Never had one,

Your a virgin, Wimberley"

[bob fleming]

"Who's yer girlfriend,

Who's yer girlfriend,

Who's yer girlfriend, Wimberley,

Havn't got one,

Never had one,

Your a virgin, Wimberley"

That was one of them, I'm sure there was another song as well. He was only 12 mind you. (Not really).

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Where's Abbey when you need him!

[rovgers]

What a blast from the past!

I remember wimberley, by word what an ugly b@rstard he was!!

The song I remember about him was, to the wembley tune

Wimberley

wimberley

he's a toothless gormless b@st@rd

and his name is wimberley

wimberley etc etc

[ABBEY]

twasnt gormless...twas brainless

[rovgers]

twasnt gormless...twas brainless

I wasn't that far off, not bad for nearly 20 years ago

[McClarky]

< that wretch on the Blackburn End (Frank maybe?) >

Must be Smelly Frank! Friarsnig - I too remember him from Valley Blues trips, thick nhs-style gigs, ill fitting brown suit with at least 6 cans of red/black East Lancs Pale Ale always in pockets about his person that he could conjure up ...remember one away trip when someone binned his treasured porn video - he'd brought it along for in-coach viewing - with all the empty cans !

"If you can't get a shag in Shrewsbury you can't get 1 nowhere."

[Billinge End Blue]

There is a massive irony in some of these reminiscences appearing in this particular thread

[LDRover]

Anyone remember the two gay boys in the Blackburn End (near number 5) who used to sing 'Howard Gayle Howard Gayle' after any racist late 80's chanting?

I'm sure they held hands during the game.

Used to also like the Accrington songs to and fro 'Oh Accrington, is (full of **** / wonderful) depending on your leanings.

And I'm telling you now there used to be a group of blokes (1987/88ish) one of whom would shout 'What have we got on our helmets?' to which his mates would reply 'CHEESE'

[Ozz]

"Who's yer girlfriend,

Who's yer girlfriend,

Who's yer girlfriend, Wimberley,

Havn't got one,

Never had one,

Your a virgin, Wimberley"

Takes me right back that.

[ihateburnley]

And I'm telling you now there used to be a group of blokes (1987/88ish) one of whom would shout 'What have we got on our helmets?' to which his mates would reply 'CHEESE'

[philipl]

I maybe mistaken but I am sure helmets and cheese started long before 87/8.

So many memories flooding back in this thread. Three favourites for me were "Fools rush in", "I was born on the Blackburn End" (with a thousand decent Lee Marvin impersonators) and Annie's Song. Then in 1980 we pinched Sheff Wednesday's "Singing the Blues" but gave it a load of backing notes between repetitions.

Not forgetting "We are the Rovers" repeated ad infinitum or for at least 20 minutes depending on the longeur between goal mouth action with the punched raised fists and alternating "ooh". Used to be very effective at driving home crowds to distraction with a few hundred of us chanting that endlessly at away grounds.

[AggyBlue]

Not forgetting "We are the Rovers" repeated ad infinitum or for at least 20 minutes depending on the longeur between goal mouth action with the punched raised fists and alternating "ooh". Used to be very effective at driving home crowds to distraction with a few hundred of us chanting that endlessly at away grounds.

That used to be excellent, as you said, it really wound some home fans up, 20 minutes being a conservative estimate too.

At most away grounds you had to sing and jump around constantly just to keep warm, as most were open to the elements. It was a rare treat to have a covered away end. Happy days.

[Scotty]

I always wondered who brought along the Riverside teddy bear every other week.

[USABlue]

Not forgetting "We are the Rovers" repeated ad infinitum or for at least 20 minutes depending on the longeur between goal mouth action with the punched raised fists and alternating "ooh". Used to be very effective at driving home crowds to distraction with a few hundred of us chanting that endlessly at away grounds.

Used to love that one, We are the Rovers Ohh, we are the Rovers Ooh, Punching the air at ever ooh. Really quite stirring when you had enough doing it and it went on for a long time.

Fools rush in with the whole end singing it could be quite moving too.

[USABlue]

I always wondered who brought along the Riverside teddy bear every other week.

Me too, I just know the @#/? never made it out of there alive.

So does anyone know what I can do with the video to lighten it up most of the ground is in the shadows very very dark. Can't even see the terracing on the Riverside too well.

[USABlue]

Nostalgic pap. Does anybody want the old Ewood back? I certainly don't thats for sure. When they kept the boardroom and threw the rest away they did exactly right.

Pap to you drog and nostalgiac indeed. No none of us would likely have it back but at the time I would not have had one of todays sterile footy "stadia" back then either. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Seeing the posts here I feel a bit sorry for the younger members that never experienced the old ground. Still, I've never experienced the new one either. I'm good with that.

[Claytons Left Boot]

Used to love that one, We are the Rovers Ohh, we are the Rovers Ooh, Punching the air at ever ooh. Really quite stirring when you had enough doing it and it went on for a long time.

One particular game at Ewood, QPR rings a bell, can't remember the year, it was sung for the whole of the second half. Classic!

An alternative to it was, 'We are the Rovers - we hate Burnley, We are the Rovers - we hate Burnley......'

[rovgers]

What songs have we got these days.........the bleeeeding 'get into em' chant, no wonder the atmosphere is pap.

Its about time that the old classics are re-issued!

[johnny boy]

Wow! That's so moving, and the music is very haunting. What is it?

1979 was a big year in my life, as in that year my family moved away from Lancs down to Plymouth. I've been a Rovers fan from a distance most of my life. I remember we got 2 drubbings by Argyle in the 1980's. That seems such a long way away now.

I remember the old ground from the mid to late 1980's. How things have changed.

[MCMC1875]

I maybe mistaken but I am sure helmets and cheese started long before 87/8.

So many memories flooding back in this thread. Three favourites for me were "Fools rush in", "I was born on the Blackburn End" (with a thousand decent Lee Marvin impersonators) and Annie's Song. Then in 1980 we pinched Sheff Wednesday's "Singing the Blues" but gave it a load of backing notes between repetitions.

Not forgetting "We are the Rovers" repeated ad infinitum or for at least 20 minutes depending on the longeur between goal mouth action with the punched raised fists and alternating "ooh". Used to be very effective at driving home crowds to distraction with a few hundred of us chanting that endlessly at away grounds.

A regular version was "We are the Rovers, we are the champions......". We were never to know at the time but it was very prophetic.

[Paul Mellelieu]

To be fair to today's "lads" they can keep a decent chant going: Everton and Liverpool away in recent years come to mind.

[cletus]

On a slightly similar nostalgic theme, i was on the old Burden Park yesterday.....pushing an Asda trolley around!

The last time i was there was in 1982 when rovers drew 2-2 with the piggies. I rememer the snow & ice had been cleared from the away end terrace & had been neatly piled up....ideal for the Rovers fans to pelt the Bolton fans in the enclosure just below us to the side. It rained down snowballs for nearly the whole 90mins. Loads of trouble there aswell with Piggies who`d come over the very small fence at the front. Had to run the gauntlet on way back to train station after the game.

Anyway, yesterday was a much more pleasurable experience