Huge fan: Roy Oliver
Roy Oliver has supported Bromley for 64 years. The 77-year-old is the membership’s historian and an authentic ‘Bromley Boy’, starring within the in style e-book and have movie ‘Bromley Boys’.
My first full season was in 1960.
My father first took me there within the Nineteen Fifties. We might present up at halftime as a result of admission was free then – cash wasn’t at all times plentiful. My grandma used to run a tea bar.
I began going to 2 or three away video games, native video games like Dulwich and Tooting, after which in 1962-63 I went to many of the video games. I competed in each sport since then and nonetheless do to this present day.
I used to be on the Supporters Committee for 36 years and I am nonetheless concerned in every little thing there. We’re volunteers, so in the summertime you deal with the grounds, weeding, portray, no matter must be completed,
One of the necessary issues about watching a staff like Bromley, particularly for me, is the friendships you make. Everybody is aware of everybody else. Everybody talks to one another.
My sons name me a whole mad historian. However I’ve at all times been fascinated by historical past. I at all times beloved historical past in school so I discovered in regards to the soccer membership… like our first jersey was worn on October seventh 1892.
After the conflict and into the Nineteen Fifties, Bromley was one of many largest beginner golf equipment within the nation. There are amateurs Worldwide gamers over there. All the highest gamers wished to come back to Bromley after which some went to larger golf equipment like Stan Charlton to Arsenal.
However the mid-sixties to mid-seventies have been horrible years. The bottom situation was horrible. Fences are coming down. The quantity of sponsorship isn’t giant. Then John Biddle arrived from Cray and the financial system started to enhance. We zipped round to the Isthmian Prime and again down once more. This case lasted till about 2004. Stunning.
There was a fireplace in 1992 too and the entire stand, membership room and every little thing burned down. It is fairly devastating. We’ve got to play all our residence video games on the street.
But it surely’s a enjoyable sport, you recognize. Supporters are very fickle. They help the staff when it wins and disappear when the staff loses.
