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Post by Colyton Gas on May 23, 2020 19:11:32 GMT
Rochdale was memorable.They had been re-elected for the umpteenth time and anticipating they would be kicked out,they sacked the staff, only to be re-elected against all the odds.Barrow on their first re-election got the boot as it seems clubs didn't want to travel all that way to their remote outpost.The little old lady well into her 70's came in to welcome us and said,'We didn't think we had a chance of getting back in again and they sacked everyone and have had to make me temporary secretary.I love it so if I've done anything wrong,don't report me as I 'd love to stay on'. Pre internet,mobiles etc so everything was done by post or phone.Their match day programme was the only one I came across which was duplicated and not printed. Peter Madden was the manager. David Pleat used to come in Early before the team sheets were brought in ( Luton and Leicester) and tell us what to look for.Remember reffing a reserve match,Forest v Blackburn one evening which the visitors won 0-1. When I'd showered and was leaving Cloughie was still giving his team what for and not holding back.Strangely his first team had won the European Cup the night previously!!!!! I ran the line at Forest v Man U one evening when the secretary came in to give us our expenses and had written down the other scores.One of them was us winning at Twerton against the lesser Bristol team and thus clinch promotion.I didn't hold back!!!!
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Post by Somersetgas on May 23, 2020 19:39:10 GMT
Rochdale was memorable.They had been re-elected for the umpteenth time and anticipating they would be kicked out,they sacked the staff, only to be re-elected against all the odds.Barrow on their first re-election got the boot as it seems clubs didn't want to travel all that way to their remote outpost.The little old lady well into her 70's came in to welcome us and said,'We didn't think we had a chance of getting back in again and they sacked everyone and have had to make me temporary secretary.I love it so if I've done anything wrong,don't report me as I 'd love to stay on'. Pre internet,mobiles etc so everything was done by post or phone.Their match day programme was the only one I came across which was duplicated and not printed. Peter Madden was the manager. David Pleat used to come in Early before the team sheets were brought in ( Luton and Leicester) and tell us what to look for.Remember reffing a reserve match,Forest v Blackburn one evening which the visitors won 0-1. When I'd showered and was leaving Cloughie was still giving his tean what for and not holding back.Strangely his first team had won the European Cup the night previously!!!!! I ran the line at Forest v Man U one evening when the secretary came in to give us our expenses and had written down the other scores.One of them was us winning at Twerton against the lesser Bristol team and thus clinch promotion.I didn't hold back!!!! A very interesting view which most of us would never have the chance of seeing. Thanks for your two posts, most interesting.
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Post by mjg on May 23, 2020 22:48:32 GMT
View AttachmentMarshy.I'm running the line today.ITV 5 pm.Will give you a wave. Wow. I was on the Kop that night with my then girlfriend, now my wife. Went to Anfield quite often in my 3 years at uni up there. 89 was my last year and of course that was the year of Hillsborough. I left a Rovers scarf at the Shankly gates. I remember Adams leading the Arsenal team over to the Kop when they ran out before kick off, and throwing flowers into the crowd. The game was crazy and dramatic. I thought for years that I was romanticising my memory of it but watching on TV today it backs what I thought I'd experienced in that thousands stayed on the Kop at the end to applaud Arsenal. The only other game my wife's been to was Rovers v Blackpool in about 1990 I think. 1 v 0 home win, Devon White scuffed shot from the edge of the box, an inflatable Blackpool Tower won the halftime fans' competition and the witty chant told the winner, in very precise anatomical terms, where he ought to stick it.
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