Recent content by DockWorker67

Mine was 1972. My old man took me and I was about seven. I remember walking through the turnstiles and the noise hitting me like a wall. I'd never heard anything that loud in my life. The crowd was massive, the terraces were packed, and everyone was standing because that's all there was. I...

In my day you listened to the away games on Radio Humberside with your ear pressed against a transistor radio. Kids today don't know they're born with their live streams and pub screens. Joking aside the Brickmakers is the best for atmosphere. When a goal goes in the whole place erupts and for a...

Beverley Road Baths was where half of Hull learned to swim. The changing cubicles with those little curtains that never quite closed properly. The water that was either freezing or scalding depending on who'd been messing with the boiler. The verruca socks that your mum made you wear. Going for...

I went last month and I'll be honest it hit me harder than I expected. My uncle worked on trawlers for twenty years. Seeing the inside of that ship, the cramped bunks, the tiny galley, the fish room where they'd work eighteen hour shifts in freezing temperatures. It brings home what those men...

Going to go old school here and say it's whoever plays right back for us. No one ever talks about the right back but they do a job every week. Defending, overlapping, putting crosses in, tracking back. Full backs are the most underappreciated position in football and they always have been. The...

Both. That's the honest answer. Parts of Spring Bank are brilliant and parts of it need work. The diversity is what makes it special. You won't find a more multicultural street anywhere in East Yorkshire. The food alone justifies visiting. But some of the buildings are in a state and certain...

I watched the sun come up over the Humber from the docks nearly every morning for thirty years when I was working. Never got tired of it. The bridge changed the skyline completely when it went up in 81 but the river itself has been beautiful for as long as anyone can remember. People think of...

It was better when it was a proper shopping street. In the 70s and 80s Beverley Road had everything you needed. Butchers, bakers, greengrocers, hardware shops. You didn't need to go into town because it was all there. Now it's mostly takeaways and charity shops and the road itself has been left...

High street retail is dying everywhere not just Hull. Look at any city centre in the country and half the shops are boarded up. The problem with Princes Quay specifically is that it was built for an era that doesn't exist anymore. People buy everything online now. The building needs to be...

Fifteen goals before March is impressive by anyone's standards. The lad's got that instinct you can't teach. He just knows where the ball is going to end up before anyone else does. Reminds me a bit of Dean Windass in terms of pure goalscoring ability. Not saying he's at that level yet but the...

Took the grandkids cockle picking at Spurn last weekend and it was brilliant. Low tide, warm enough to roll your sleeves up, and we filled two buckets in about an hour. The kids absolutely loved it. Getting them away from their tablets for a few hours felt like a proper achievement. If you've...

You should have been at Boothferry Park in the 70s lad. The noise was unbelievable and there were no organised fan groups or flags, people just sang because they wanted to. The problem with modern football is everyone sits there on their phone waiting to be entertained instead of actually...

Went night fishing down at Victoria Pier last Friday for the first time in about five years. Forgot how peaceful it is sitting there in the dark with just the sound of the water and the odd ship going past. Didn't catch much. A couple of small whiting and something that might have been a dab but...

Hull was one of the biggest fishing ports in the world. Thousands of men went out into the North Sea on trawlers and plenty of them never came back. The fishing industry built this city and when it collapsed in the 70s it devastated entire communities. That heritage is everywhere if you know...

The missus wants to start going to car boot sales on Sunday mornings and I've been dragged into it. Not going to lie though the last one we went to near Hessle was actually quite good. Found a decent set of spanners for two quid and some old Hull City programmes from the 90s. We used to go to...