Not seen Skelly for a year or so.
Those were the days, picking the van up 1st thing Saturday morning from Ready rent a van and off to wherever the Iron were playing.
The likes of Jingles and his brother Steve, ship and his brother young ship, big Aidy who famously fell asleep in the snow and ice on the open terrace at Belle Vue cos he’d had a few.
We called ourselves TVI, it stood for Transit Van Iron but some wag came up with Trent Valley Infantry for some non existent hooligan element, we found it amusing.
Home matches we all used to drink in the poacher and order a fleet of taxis for 2:30.
I remember playing Darlington at home and a load of there supporters rocked up at the poacher, one group lost the deposit for the van as Jingles put an empty beer keg through the windscreen.
Turning up at the Earl of Crewe for an early session at the play off game that Steve had organised with the landlord because we’d behaved in there a couple of weeks before, only for the word to get out that he was going to open up early for us, when we got there, there was dozens of Scunny supporters had beat us there.
Many more memories, always a competition on away games at motorway services on who could come out with the most stock but pay the least amount of money.
