Lost 4-2 on a beautiful day in August, despite going 2-1 up in first half. Played off the park by great Jim Smith side. Butts' first game (?), was about 2 stone overweight.
1-0 defeat to early goal Christmas 1976, missed a pen. That Pompey song by somebody Oldfield was played quite a lot and...
Also scored two goals (I think) at York before Christmas that season in a game which relaunched our promotion campaign, we were 1-0 down at half time and won 2-1.
The Rotherham game.........we had drawn at home to Bolton on the Saturday and on Wednesday night another massive crowd was watching the game teeter towards another point lost, and with it a blow to our hopes. Into the last minute we went, and Ken Beamish, our latest hero signed for a record fee...
We had been looking forward to this match for months - in those days there were only two games on MoTD and the other one finished 0-0 so they showed this as the main game - pretty unprecedented for a Div 3 (as it was then) game. Anyone recall who the four dropped players were?.......think John...