hacko 11:12 Sat Nov 24
Hackney Marshes on a Sunday morning
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Time was when all the pitches were in use when I played there often some 45 years ago. Is it still fully occupied?
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Takashi Miike
11:24 Sat Nov 24
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hacko, i think the hackney & leyton league is still going strong. used to have a lot of agg over there on a sjnday morning/lunchtime. some very dirty teams played over there :.)
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Northern Sold
12:37 Sun Nov 25
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Played their once.... that was enough... shit hole
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gph
1:07 Sun Nov 25
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Not a proper SHIT hole.
I once played on a pitch covered in cow shit.
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Northern Sold
1:16 Sun Nov 25
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So did I geep..... nomansland in the New Forest... think there was horse, pig, goat and sheep shit on the pitch
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only1billybonds
1:18 Sun Nov 25
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I played over there countless times in the 70's. Some great memories and a lot of very interesting 'characters'. And yes,some of the teams were fucking savages.
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Northern Sold
1:22 Sun Nov 25
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Most mental thing I ever saw on a football pitch was a player getting sent off on the pitch next door jump in his Ford Capri and try and run over the ref that had just sent him off... ref ran behind a tree and the bloke spent a good 30 secs driving round this tree trying to get him... banned for life
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arsene york-hunt
1:44 Sun Nov 25
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I went over there once to watch my brother play and got roped in to be the ref. I had no experience and was not prepared for the abuse I was getting from guttersnipes of the opposing team. Half way through the second half, after a mass brawl, I realised I had not got a clue what time the match was due to end, so when the next piece of verbal abuse arrived I ripped off the whistle and threw it in the face of the cunt abusing me. I then said "You fucking do it then, you cunt" and walked off. They then begged me to stay on so I finished off and blew up early having got roughly the finishing time from a spectator. Never again
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wanstead_hammer
9:55 Sun Nov 25
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Yeh, played there loads of times back in the day. Meet, still half pissed o/s the boozer.
The cow sheds changing rooms. Smell of white horse oil/deep heat.
hundreds of pitches, putting the posts up and a net if you were lucky, HT snout, tear-ups all over the gaff, then back to the boozer for a livener and the bar spread (spuds etc).
And not a jumper for goalposts in sight.
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Norman
8:46 Sun Nov 25
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Only played there once for West Ham Supporters Team against Orient Supporters a few years ago. Doing the Park Run there on Saturday though.
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Gavros
8:49 Sun Nov 25
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Still Europe's biggest but not as big as it used to be. As a sort of payback for building the A12 they let a part of it go wild. In the past 25 years it's turned into a forest. Really impressive to see and shows how quickly nature would take over again if we disappeared.
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Dwight Van Mann
8:59 Sun Nov 25
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wanstead_hammer 9:55 Sun Nov 25
great memories
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one iron
9:01 Sun Nov 25
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I used to play for manorpark youth and the fox and hounds if you was on pitch 101,you was fucked after walking to the pitch with the goal posts (1971)
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irons1979
9:18 Sun Nov 25
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Thank me later - https://youtu.be/2t1ECK9yWK4
27 year’s old but absolute classic from back in the day!
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Far Cough
9:50 Sun Nov 25
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Clement Attlee and Sunday league football?
Arf
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joyo
10:08 Sun Nov 25
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I used to play for Lakeview, played loads of away fixtures there
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JLAP
10:16 Sun Nov 25
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BARLEYLANDS is where it’s at ..
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Rossal
9:15 Mon Nov 26
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Played there pre season......the club house is half decent and its fairly well orgainised in terms of what pitch youre on.......youve just got to find your pitch amongst the 50 odd
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Oh dear
9:24 Mon Nov 26
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The Hackney and Leyton League still thrives.
Very mixed culturally now.
I used play for St John the Baptist Boys Club on Saturday morning and then when I moved to adult football I played for Hackney Volunteers
If you never had a game you could always get one by standing around the changing rooms with your boots in your hand and wait for an offer, you never failed to get a game.
Good memories.
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brick_lane_batty_boy
9:31 Mon Nov 26
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Didn't he? Wasn't it? Oh what great days
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Eggbert Nobacon
10:29 Mon Nov 26
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Gavros 8:49 Sun Nov 25
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Still Europe's biggest but not as big as it used to be. As a sort of payback for building the A12 they let a part of it go wild. In the past 25 years it's turned into a forest. Really impressive to see and shows how quickly nature would take over again if we disappeared.
should check out Samphie Hoe Gav, they piled up all the crap the dug out when making the channel tunnel and have done similar
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