the old terraced loft!!!!!!

[Factamondo]

discuss!

[Cogster]

Bring it back.

Happy days there

Edited to add.."Oh we're the loft boys, we're the loft boys, we're the loft boys shepherds bush"

[Factamondo]

agreed!........never understood why when we rebuilt it a new roof n tidy up was all that was required imho!.........plenty of london teams used to have a pop at it back in the day but times have changed!

[nuffieldranger]

Terraced stadiums are and always will be more fun than seating bring it back!!!

[Factamondo]

remember as a 12 year old in 76 when we beat leeds 2-0 to become champions of england for three days......packed in like sardines but memories i shall cherish forever!

[qprsuttz]

never got to experience it and would love to bring it back!!

[Factamondo]

most people stood in or near the same spot for years...me i always tried to be smack bang in the middle near the little over hang above the exit.........'stanleeee stanleee stanleeee stanlee............born is the king of loftus rd!

[andythefish]

Remember one game against Charlton,just as the whistle went to start the game,a group of Millwall fans decided to pipe up in the loft.Everyone stepped back,just to see how many there were,then,lets just say they were persuaded to leave!!

[Factamondo]

remember pompey having a pop during a cup game on a tuesday night n taking a terrible shoeing............never quite understood pompey thinking we were mugs cos every time theyve taken a slap!!!

[Goodfell_R`s]

love it back

[90minutes]

there was a campaign to bring back terraces - www.safestanding.com but i dunno what happened with that.
cant see the nobs at the FA ever listening to what the fans want tho..

[THE FLYING COW]

yes

yes being a bit olde than yourself factomondo i can tell you proudly i was an origional loft boy
back in 66 a film was released called goal...you can hear the very first ritualistic chanting
so from there we move to 67 and the origional chelsea shed was a home for about five thousand skin heads
one hundred of them were qpr fans but there was no real end as yet at loftus road
but a group of about 50 were trying to start it off at the loft end
the development of skinhesdism and hooliganism were going to become as one
but the loft really started to number several hundred in 1968 -69 season
and yes the problem we intitially had was when the almighty shed marched on loftus road we were defenceless
they numerically out numbed us ten to one
so they just filled it up completely also man utd did the same also wst ham
did the same as did arsenal
only tottenham who started off as our friends allowed us to keep our end
they showed us much kindness in parking up there army on the south africa road terrace
but because skinheads were so transiant its difficult to know what numbers were in the origional loft
but only tottenham were allowed to keep there colours on because of the fact we respected them as our friends
but me being a northolt skin it is strange to report that initially the famous northolt were not big players in the origional loft
ealing wre part of it especially south ealing and northfields
white city were also a big part of it
but people never said they were from ladbroke grove in them days
they called them selves notting hill
but yes it was a a sensational time and we held the loft against every team from the top flight
except chelsea,arsenal,west ham and man utd i was at every home game
proudly wearing my skin head outfit but being a skinhead wasnt about being violent it was the music the fashion watch quadrophenia and undrstand that it was a new culture
one of the biggest misunderstanding about origional skinhesads were that they were racists
we copied our music from the carabian,we copied the brixton rude boys with the tonic suits
and of course they taught us to shuffle so you could say the jamaican actually fashioned the whole skinhead movement
which was not about violence it was about love
love of music
love of football chanting
love of skinhead chicks
love of dancing
love of fashionable clothes
abd yes it was the best day of my life

[qblockpete]

Contrary to belief, I remember it.

Even remember the knees up mother brown (must have been early eighties) and being pushed to the front. Often stood at the back and rarely saw much of the game.

[Gtleighsr3]

The Paddock took the Loft everytime we went in there fact

[pc1401]

Well i always thought Quadrophenia was about mods not skinheads maybe it was a different version i saw