Page 11 - Raynes Park Vale vs Balham 02-04-22

Sid And Doris Bonkers Park gilets courtesy of Vale Operations Manager, Catering Command-

er, financial wizard and all-round do-er of stuff, Helen Dalton. After
a mere twenty minutes Doris arrived back from parking the Meriva
and she wasn’t happy. Apparently I should have known that her zim-
mer-frame would get stuck in the pot-holes as she ambled up Grand
Drive! Out on the stand we found ourselves next to the self-styled RPV
SHOUTING FROM THE STANDS Ultras.
A secretive bunch of ne’er-do-wells

These are a secretive bunch of ne’er-do-wells
but Doris definitely picked up a mix of Scouse
and Sicilian accents in the chants that are

These evening matches are becom- starting to emerge from the RPV shed. Noth-
ing to do with CFC, just that it’s made of
ing a great night out at Grand Drive! planks of wood, is nice and cosy and has
a collection of old tools in it. (Don’t give
hey always used to be a bit of a quiet affair with a rare up your day-job. Ed.) So far we’ve heard
handful of fans turning out to avoid pre-watershed songs about Billy The Bish and Reece
TV and get a cheap pint WB but there are rumours of a tribute to
of By The Horns Pils and a Aidan ‘Boogie’ Brown on its way! Word
Tburger. Thanks to some far- of warning though...the main guys on
from-perfect timing your Into The Vale fan the RPV Curva Nord look pretty bonkers
reporter turned up so if they say ‘sing’ you better start sing-
with mere minutes to ing. These are dangerous men, are not to be
spare and such is the messed with and should not be approached
change in attendance - unless you have a pint for them!
that, by the time we Sid & Doris Bonkers
arrived Doris had to
park in Morden High
Street (after dropping Don't
me off at the gate, RPV Ultras Blame it
of course - no point on the
in both of us going Boogie Reece (Wazza)
short at the bar before Williams -Bowers
kick-off!) With only looking suitably
ten minutes to kick-off there was barely time to get a prediction of the impressed at hearing
score from the chairman, a quick chat with RPV legend Brian ‘Biggsy’ the Wazza song.
Biggs and a catch up with a freshly-coiffeured RPV keeper James
Smith before slipping into one of the new, height-of-fashion Raynes