O/T Book dedicated to Mishi

[Roger D]

Well known football ground photographer Mike Floate has dedicated his book Nutty Turnout Wales to the memory of Mishi Morath.

Paperback Nutty Turnout Wales

The craziest football grounds book ever! 150 pages, over 1000 images. Check the way grounds were when I visited as many have changed in the years since. Check the images for a visual understanding of what this book has to offer. I d say each one I offer for sale is unique, a quality product and...

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Old school members of the Rabble will recognise where Mike got the title from...

Curiously the phrase made a Millwall fan I know smile. It seems Mishi may have sneaked a second dubious reference past the club, after someone on the Committee worked out what the fanzine name Pink and Blue Bushwacker was a reference to. It was hurriedly re-named Champion Hill Street Blues.

 

[Paula_G]

Well known football ground photographer Mike Floate has dedicated his book Nutty Turnout Wales to the memory of Mishi Morath.

Paperback Nutty Turnout Wales

The craziest football grounds book ever! 150 pages, over 1000 images. Check the way grounds were when I visited as many have changed in the years since. Check the images for a visual understanding of what this book has to offer. I d say each one I offer for sale is unique, a quality product and...

www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com

Old school members of the Rabble will recognise where Mike got the title from...

Curiously the phrase made a Millwall fan I know smile. It seems Mishi may have sneaked a second dubious reference past the club, after someone on the Committee worked out what the fanzine name Pink and Blue Bushwacker was a reference to. It was hurriedly re-named Champion Hill Street Blues.

The good old NTOs

 

[Pink Panther]

The good old NTOs

The classic "great day out ruined by the football"! I recall Burty being pushed along the streets in a supermarket trolley, and taking a corner in (James) Hunt the Shunt style, before we lost an FA Cup tie at lower division Worthing after an 11am pub start in Brighton.

 

[Roger D]

Burty did worse, I'm not sure Cheltenham has ever fully recovered...

On another Brighton trip I spent most of the evening trying to calm Mishi down. He was convinced someone had nicked his bag and was threatening all sorts of retribution on the pub ,/ town / anyone nearby. The fact he was still holding it in one hand was apparently not evidence it hadn't been stolen...

 

[Don't Slow Down]

I remember bouncing a supermarket trolley round the back streets of Sutton with Burty in it. Happy Days!

 

[Pink Panther]

On another Brighton trip I spent most of the evening trying to calm Mishi down. He was convinced someone had nicked his bag and was threatening all sorts of retribution on the pub ,/ town / anyone nearby. The fact he was still holding it in one hand was apparently not evidence it hadn't been stolen...

We were in the Quadrant pub in Brighton after an away win at Worthing. Mishi lost his bag, and we told him he must have left it at the ground. He went all the way back from Brighton to Worthing to look for it, but it turned out he'd just left it in a corner in the pub where no one could see it, and we only noticed it when he arrived back about 90 minutes later.

 

[Paula_G]

And of course the infamous Yeovil overnighter that started some time around 8am at Waterloo Station and took in first orders in Sherborne, a smoking race in the wonderful Yeovil Junction platform bar, a game that disappeared into an haze of booze, about 30 seconds of culture in Salisbury before discovering the Reserves game at Aldershot Town was on. Somehow I got into work on the Thursday though I was in something akin to walking coma!

 

[Roger D]

I whimped out and stayed overnight in Salisbury. The B&B owners clearly thought we were mad. Especially when they asked the final score at breakfast the next morning. Stopped off in Shot on the way home too. The manager came over to thank us for our supporting at the end. His face when we told him we were still going home from Yeovil was a picture

Little did I know I'd end up spending knocking twenty years living three minutes walk from the ground.I've moved now but am typing this in a pub five minutes from the ground.