30-04-2021, 03:44 PM
I trust I am not the only person on this Board who remembers that sunny evening in the ‘50s when The Globetrotters played The Texas Cowboys at Fratton Park.
A basketball court laid in the middle of the pitch and a decent crowd enjoying great entertainment from the first notes of Sweet Georgia Brown -The number that accompanied The Globetrotters warm up routine to the very last net.
Of course it was in that period before TV dominated things and the chance to see what were then legendary performers drew a large crowd.
I seem to remember Goose Haines, JC Gibson, Meadowlark Lemon but too many years have passed for me to remember the rest of The Globetrotters line up that evening.
One of the bigger non- football evenings at HQ.
A basketball court laid in the middle of the pitch and a decent crowd enjoying great entertainment from the first notes of Sweet Georgia Brown -The number that accompanied The Globetrotters warm up routine to the very last net.
Of course it was in that period before TV dominated things and the chance to see what were then legendary performers drew a large crowd.
I seem to remember Goose Haines, JC Gibson, Meadowlark Lemon but too many years have passed for me to remember the rest of The Globetrotters line up that evening.
One of the bigger non- football evenings at HQ.