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Please list & compare. For me:
1 Travelling to away matches. Had to be at Stamford Bridge at Midnight to catch the coach to : Sunderland, Huddersfield, Stoke, Liverpool etc.
2 Cold houses, in my house only one or two rooms were heated. Had to have a hot water bottle in Winter. Net curtains often froze to window pane.
3 Sweets were rationed, in 1950 the ration went down to 4oz / week
4 Winter evenings, no TV until as was 9 ( that was fairly early for most ). My mum & her cousin did embroidery or sewing whilst listening to the radio
5 Food was boring. Meat & cheese were rationed. Could only get Government Cheddar Cheese.
What hardships do you remember?
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My greatest hardship was when penny carmels went up to tuppence. I was incandescent with rage.
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we didnt have to carry the fizzy drinks bottles back to get 5 pence back .

Plastic is so much easier to throw away in a bin &
will eventually break down in a million years time
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Vastly improved healthcare
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Much better footballers
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The end of Peters and Lee
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Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:13 pm Much better footballers
Great point. Watching euro 96 re runs, it was entertaining but no one could string 2 passes together. Drinan would have started alongside Shearer had he been around then!
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Apple Wumble wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:51 pm
Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:13 pm Much better footballers
Great point. Watching euro 96 re runs, it was entertaining but no one could string 2 passes together. Drinan would have started alongside Shearer had he been around then!
Even though hes Irish?
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Prestige Worldwide wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:52 pm
Apple Wumble wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:51 pm
Smendrick Feaselberg wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:13 pm Much better footballers
Great point. Watching euro 96 re runs, it was entertaining but no one could string 2 passes together. Drinan would have started alongside Shearer had he been around then!
Even though hes Irish?
If Jackie grealish can do it…
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Fun runs for all. From Peoples Marathons and Half Marathons in the eighties to Park Runs now . Truly wonderful.
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Decent beer in the South, only ever got a good pint at away games like Blackburn.
That was apart from Youngs or Fullers, not an over abundance of their pubs North of the Thames.
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Pretty much everything
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