STFC Documentry "Six days to Saturday" 1963

[axs]

I love to think of times when there were enough people who loved STFC to do that.

[Ginginho]

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Just downloaded this video from here.
It is a "RAM" file which plays in Realplayer, is there anyway I can get this onto DVD?
Or is there anywhere I can get a copy on DVD?

It's a brilliant film by John Boorman.

[Rustle]

Great stuff Caveman,burning to DVD now 

[herthab]

Makes me wish that the inhabitants of Swindon were a bit less apathetic now concerning their local Club.

Swindon's grown massively since those days, yet the crowds have dwindled.

[suttonred]

Bar digging the allotment and diddling the wife, there wasn't much else in the way of entertainment back then, there's masses of other stuff now. We still get better crowds now than through the 80's though even when we were in what was Div2 a lot of the time.

[Arriba]

i have it on dvd and will do copies if anyone wants it.

[jimmy_onions]

Just watched it - brilliant...what an ecletic mix of people in the town end! Compare with the recently posted Fulham videos!
Not sure this thread got the attention it deseverd first time round.

[Reg Smeeton]

Makes me wish that the inhabitants of Swindon were a bit less apathetic now concerning their local Club.

Swindon's grown massively since those days, yet the crowds have dwindled.

Simply, the incomers pick a Chelsea, Arsenal or ManUre....as we all know being a Town fan isn't the easiest option.

I quite like the fact we're a minority within our own town...strengthens the bonds between proper Town fans, who I consider to be the flower of English  man and woman hood...even some of the cunts I've met from on here.

[Ardiles]

I feel it the other way.  I miss the feeling that I'm in STFC territory when I step off the train at Swindon.  Seeing kids out playing football wearing Town tops, being able to have a Swindon Town based conversation with a group in the pub and knowing that most of the people would know what you were talking about and might have at least a passing interest.

I'm sure (unless I'm going all rose tinted here) that we used to get that in the early 1990s.  Seemed to be that way in Reading a few years back as well, although less so now.

[Plumstead Red]

Plus of course, more and more kids support a Premier League team (normally the top 4) because they want guaranteed success and cred among their mates. 2 colleagues here at work think nothing of driving three or four times a season up to Liverpool/Man U with their kids to see their Prem idols, and loads of people commute to London every fortnight to see the London Prem teams. Those colleagues and their kids will only consider coming to Swindon should we get to the play offs. It's sad but true.

We would still take 30,000 to Wembley though if we got there, because I believe that most of the people in this town do want their local club to do well.

To be fair as well, football was the same price back then as going to the cinema or doing another leisure activity, whereas it is comparatively expensive to most other leisure activities now. 

[RedRag]

Only One Don - always in control, swindon town through and through, a genuinely nice assassin.

[Saxondale]

Watched this for the first time earlier, excellent.  Such a stark contrast from the modern age of sky sponsored football.

[leefer]

Its brilliant...in fact i think football fans all over the country would enjoy watching it.

[RedRag]

Real football fans certainly would!

The documentary gets across a really special sense of "connection" between the town and the club and its players.

Partly reflecting different times and partly engendered by the succesful emergence of Bert's Babes - an exceptional part of the Swindon story that Reg and others were privileged to experience first hand.

Many fans of course come from the local market towns and villages but an 18,000 crowd out of a then population of 92,000 equates to an impressive 1:5 attendance - not bad for Orient.

I doubt that Town fans would have been a minority in their own town!

[leefer]

In the 60,s heyday when we had an exiting team the railway workers all worked saturday morning...thousands left the works and straight to the football...no doubt via the Glue Pot,Rolling Mills,Sir Dan, Locomotive....my favourite was the Rolling Mills a little later on after a full english at Nottons in County Road.