Anyone got an idea?

I've just noticed on the official site:

Honorary Life President: Lord Tom Burlison

Answering my own questions now

think he is an old player i think smarty or gibson asked him after ted leadbitter died

a ginga from way back (late 50's - early 60's) , played midfield, good solid player

When I started seeing Pools I saw Tom play a few games. Later when we wanted to sponsor a match ball for a game as a thank you for being invited into the directors box for a couple of games and wanted to come up & see the match we found out that Tom had sponsored the ball for that match but had agreed to change it to another game so we could get our wish. We beat Rochdale 3-1 with our hero Roy Hogan (who's kit we sponsored) scoring a penalty. So to me Tom is a top bloke and I know that everyone who knows him speaks highly of him as a really nice man. Good to have someone associated with the game and the club as a life president rather than some figurehead politician I think.

A gift from an absent friend. Cop them socks and boots and think about James Browns footwear!!

Aye, thems mans socks and boots, you should have seen him when he had his shin pads in as well. And the ball used to weigh a ton as well, and when it rained (and it always did in those pre global warming days) the ball got even heavier as it would absorb water. And they only got paid 10 shillings a week and had to wash their own kit. Kids of today think they've got it hard but they have got it made.

I recognise that stand in the background - that stand was still at the rink end until the 70's if I'm not mistaken. Every time the ball used to hit it with a vengeance everyone under it used to get showered in rust!

I thought it might have been into the 80's but I wasn't sure - seems longer ago now.

But they did all get a free perm as a perk.

Anyone remember when Dundee United's top boys came down for a pre-season friendly in the early seventies?

There was carnage in that end. All seven of them were at it

He was also president of a union... ther name of which escapes me...G.M.B...?

i know what that roof was made ouit of

any guesses anyone?

Does it have an s in it?

I reckon there are 3no. S's in it.

but its name (almost) lives on in today's society. Kids get them when they go to court.

I remember when Aberdeens daft lads were here, the game continued as about a dozen of them walked the length of the pitch by the touchline. Wasn't it only about 10 minutes in as well, a long bloody way to travel for a bit of dancing.

We were in the Town End that day.

So were some of Pools hard lads, which I don't think the Jocks were expecting.

I remember P*"£y, Cr*&!y (identities deliberately protected ) and a few others climbing over the fence to get at the Aberdeen lads and they sent them back up their end of the ground in next to no time!

Might well have been Aberdeen but I had Dundee in my head.

Then again I still swear we got promoted against Doncaster....

You can do anything with statistics......

The game Fens and I are on about was around 10 years ago PK, I think it was the first pre-season after IOR took over.

You said Dundee in the early 70's.

Fensy is talking about Aberdeen in about 2001.

It's like an old peoples home in here!

It finished 3-3 if I remember correctly and Gary Strodder scored a flying volley from about 20 yards I think

Nah- didn't we beat 'em 4-3?

and was also in 2000 which means my date guess was closer than Rippers!

Says who?

Does he take sugar??