Swindon '78' abandoned,who was there ?

[Leekbrookgull]

Losing 4-0 on a ploughed field of a pitch ? When the referee called it off. Hiney,where you there ?

 

[Questions]

Losing 4-0 on a ploughed field of a pitch ? When the referee called it off. Hiney,where you there ?

New years day..................... being sick on the coach on the way up........ feeling dreadful. Those were the days.

 

[sullyshuffle]

Was there for the replayed match towards the end of the season...believe we lost that one as well!

 

[Gully]

I will be there on Saturday, my ticket arrived today, will be my first time in three visits that I have made it into the away (correct) end of the ground...will probably be back again in two weeks time when the Albion visit...sounds like a team in turmoil, they go through managers faster than we do.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Yes.....my mate was the gaolie for us that night!

 

[The Auditor]

me ...we lost the rearranged game 2-1 I believe

 

[Zesh Rehman]

my grandad bangs on about it, apparently there was a song out at the time called PORTSMOUTH and they kept playing it cos the ref was from Portsmouth, bloody boring story !

 

[Barrow Boy]

my grandad bangs on about it, apparently there was a song out at the time called PORTSMOUTH and they kept playing it cos the ref was from Portsmouth, bloody boring story !

By Mike Oldfield of Tubular Bells fame I believe.

 

[Hiney]

Losing 4-0 on a ploughed field of a pitch ? When the referee called it off. Hiney,where you there ?

New Years Day '77 wasn't it?

and yes, yes I was

 

[smudge]

I was there, it got a bit naughty after the game too.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Yes I was there 01/01/77, having met my Mrs the night before in Sherry's.

Hard to imagine that our super team was being thrashed 4-0 on a glue-pot of a pitch that Swindon were just gliding over. If the game had gone the distance we probably would have gone down 6 or 7 and that would have really harmed our promotion bid.

As it was, being abandoned, the team & mananger were able to learn lessons and probably also felt that fate was with them. When we went back for the 'replayed' game, we were already promoted and it didn't matter.

I remember Albion fans leaving the cover of the stands to do 'Singing in the Rain' behind the open goal. Well done the ref, Mr Robinson of Hampshire.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

By Mike Oldfield of Tubular Bells fame I believe.

Indeed.

But first recorded two years earlier by a couple of mates of mine, Ian Holder and Terry Potter, and released originally on Shirley Collins' album, Adieu to Old England.

 

[BensGrandad]

I was there and a policeman told us at half time that the ref was going to call it off, which he did withina few minutes of the start of the second half. I thought that we lost the re-arranged game even heavier something like 6 - 1.

 

[Hiney]

I was there and a policeman told us at half time that the ref was going to call it off, which he did withina few minutes of the start of the second half. I thought that we lost the re-arranged game even heavier something like 6 - 1.

We lost it 2-1

 

[Gwylan]

I remember walking back to the Seagulls Special after the game: the police took us on a route past a building site, which gave plenty of opportunities for the Swindon fans to lob bricks in our direction. Fortunately, their aim was pretty off and I don't remember seeing anyone get hurt.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I was there that day, on the Seagulls Special - the carriages of which were made up of those no longer deemed usable for the normal paying public.

I heard that the game was never going to start, and was being postponed - so Mullery got in fish and chips and a couple of beers for the players lunch, only to be told that the ref had changed his mind and the game would be played after all.

Mullery went spare, and in return the ref said that if it rained at all he would call the game off, which he did when we were 4-0 down!

We lost the replayed game 2-1 - not sure if we were already up - I think that was Chesterfield

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

And I seem to remember a similar game to Reading when we were losing (possibly 4-0) again when it was abandoned in the second half, and we went on to win the rearranged game and got enough points to get promotion! I may be glamourising here but I think if we lost we wouldn't have been promoted?

 

[withdeanwombat]

me ...we lost the rearranged game 2-1 I believe

Me too;and correct.