I remember way back to a point of lament
To my days as a lad stood on the old embankment
The era of Wyn Davis and the great Freddie Hill
Two players who was blessed with ability and skill
The embankment was massive which had a weird looking shed
A scoreboard stood proud with the letters A to Z
At first I wasn't sure why these letters were used
And when numbers appeared I became more confused.
After a couple of weeks I got the idea
That after each letter half time scores would appear
A glance in the programme to see who was who
And which sides were winning in the old division two.
I watched the reserves when the first team played away
The man in the shed kept the score on display
There was no sky sports with updates galore
Just a bit of a wait to see the final score.
So now there`s no scoreboard just a video screen
Where updates and replays can always be seen
No man in a shed no numbers nor letter
Has football changed for worse or for better.
This was wrote from my memory as a kid when standing on old Burnden park. The embankment held over twenty thousand football fans and was then the biggest open terraced area in English football. Bolton Wanderers now play their home games at the Reebok Stadium, a new state of the art.
