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Remember that well... though in some ways in did provide a massive turning point as Clough and then Peter Taylor built the club to the one that Mullery took up
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Remember that well... though in some ways in did provide a massive turning point as Clough and then Peter Taylor built the club to the one that Mullery took up
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You couldn't hurt so much as Norman Gall. I bet last night he had nightmares dreaming of Warboys and Bannister.
I'm trying to recall the non-league side that we lost 4-0 to at home in the FA Cup a week later.
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Originally Posted by redev View Post
Was anyone there in 58 by any chance?
In those days we used to go to away games with The Supporters Club. Bert Long (the away match secretary) and his misses used to arrange things. The Southdown coach driver who used to drive us all over the country was called Arthur Parker.
If I recall correctly we left St Peters Church (the Supporters Club had an office near to it) bound for Middlesbrough at midnight. There were no motorways in those days and very few town by-passes.
Was anyone there in 58 by any chance?
In those days we used to go to away games with The Supporters Club. Bert Long (the away match secretary) and his misses used to arrange things. The Southdown coach driver who used to drive us all over the country was called Arthur Parker.
If I recall correctly we left St Peters Church (the Supporters Club had an office near to it) bound for Middlesbrough at midnight. There were no motorways in those days and very few town by-passes.
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Surely every fan knew that? Anyway, the Norwich game in WW2 doesn't count because we only had 5 players; the rest were made up from fans from the crowd and Norwich loaned us some of theirs. Hardly a proper football match, more just a public distraction to keep the home fires burning whilst mankind got on with killing more people in a single conflict since humanity began....
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Did you mispell 'counts'?
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Was that not Leatherhead?
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No, the 4-0 defeat at home was against Walton and Hersham
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That was 0-1 with a goal from the Leatherhead Lip.
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Respect.
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Yes you are correct, I remember now. We really did have a bad spell aginst non league sides didn't we.
It was a massive turning point in that Clough buggered off soon afterwards. Great manager he may have been at Derby and Forest, but he was a disaster with us. He inherited a team of pretty decent players, well capable of playing at the top of division three (the league we're in now) who were low in confidence following their first season relegation from division 2 in '72-'73 - and turned them into a team that was terrified to even walk out of the players' tunnel, and played (if that is the word for it) like rabbits in the headlights. He could have taken us out of league football altogether if he'd stayed. Thank f*ck he buggered off...........................
I've still gor the programme from that Bristol Rovers match - any rich collectors out there?
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Goal scorer was a lucky bastard called Chris something who went on to sign for Millwall and flopped.
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Old Fart
I don't think that you are correct there, but then we all have our opinions.
Steve Piper said that Clough was the best manager he played for as he was made to feel the best player in the world from Clough's pre-match talks. On the other hand Peter Ward says Clough was the worst manager he had ever played for.
As to Clough's oppo Peter Taylor, a very frank opinion was given to a journalist by Dennis Burnett who was captain of The Albion at the time.
Dennis was asked if Peter Taylor was a good manager. His reply was,
"If a good manager stays sitting in his office most of the day chain smoking, reading The Sporting Life with his feet on the desk, then yes he is a good manager."
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Chris Kelly?
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I read recently that Norman Gall was player of the season for 1973/74. Can't have been for his appalling performance in that Bristol Rovers match!
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I think in the Norwich defeat that has been mentioned Brighton fielded 5 players picked from the terrace!!