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Tours - Near The Beginning

1972 - Weston-Super-Mare. It's the early seventies, "dead ants" in restaurants, streaking down the beach, no pictures but lots of puking up on the pitch.

1974 - 75 Yeovil This Easter tour gets particularly messy, as would happen if a team of Actons finest were drinking on the coach down the A 303, and then tumble off straight onto the pitch for a game against the Farm boys of Yeovil. A tough game on Sunday versus Chard and by Monday the match with Westlands has a Police escort. The weekends excesses and punch-ups make the front page of the Daily Express for reasons too long to explain here. Email me for a comprehensive explanation.

1978 - Amsterdam Our first overseas trip has to be to Holland and with games against Hilversum, Naas, and Leiden ( the first of many incidently), it was a blinding tour. Picture the scene; a bar with a dozen or so Acton Boys about 05.30 in the morning. Jim Grace, ( an Irishman ), whispers very loudly; "Ssssshhh, Ifsh we all shit quietly we might all jusht get aftersh !!".

1979 - Paris We get the taste for playing far away and end up in Paris playing a team called Poissey twice. Once on Saturday and again on Sunday, I forget why. Nobody except Irishmen got to see the Eiffel Tower and yes the bus driver played prop in the second game." Don't collapse the scrum! The prop has to drive us home! "
A busy French high street and someone shouts " Dead Ants!! " Parisiennes look on amazed and three cars run into each other. We run like fuck.

1979 - Clitheroe / Liverpool A weekend away to Derek Jones' home town. The game was played on just about the muddiest pitch I have ever seen. And it had a slope ! When the ball was played to the bottom of the field, the ball got so caked in mud it got too heavy to kick, pass or throw. So for 60 minutes we played in one quarter of the pitch. It pissed down all day and the bus driver played. Brilliant.

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