AMEXican Wave
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- Sep 21, 2010
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I imagine the clubs that voted for this were in the bottom league and wanted to guarantee we took the relegation place to non-league that year.
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Who were clubs that voted to expel us from the League?
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Captain Sensible
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That would explain 4 or 5..... but 17 clubs?
Plenty of directors not liking the idea of fans organising themselves and rebelling against the paternalistic way that the clubs were being run. The idea of scrutiny from the massed ranks would have appalled many of those in control.
cheeseroll
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The others were friends of Northern Clubs threatened and some who felt their attendances would improve as a result of us being non league.
Pinkie Brown
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Not sure if they were still entitled to vote at that meeting, but the then Hereford Chairman & Secretary were making a lot of noise at the time about the "unfairness of pro Brighton media reporting" & spitting plenty of sour grapes to the national media. I suspect they may have been doing a fair bit of lobbying at the time?
levski seagull
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Lincoln city voted to expell us, 100%.
Were YOU at the 4-4 game in 1997?
Just remember certain members of the crowd attacked Orient players on the field including "Butch" Wilkins, I think that was his last=-ever League game.
Whatever the rights of your desire for a ground, attacking opposition players on the field, and potentuially crippling them, is a big no-no. That would negate any desire to maximise gate receipts.
Captain Sensible
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Yes I was there, seem to remember it was 2 fans that tried to attack McGleish, didnt work and ended up arrested.
cheeseroll
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I think we need to know which were the actual clubs..i seem to remember for some reason that Mansfield were one, along with Rochdale, Hartlepool, Darlington, Orient and Millwall.
ROSM
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Orient didn't. Hearn upset that goon bueno (older nsc posters may recall him)over that. Southend, Rotherham, Plymouth I think, Mansfield and Darlington were the ones who publicly admitted it.
BensGrandad
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Why would Millwall whose chairman I think was Theo Paphitis, have voted against us as they offered us the Den but the League and Police stopped it going any further.
Barrel of Fun
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I was going to email the FA, but apparently I need a FAN number (tm) to do so (or write by snail mail).
bobby smith
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Hearn the GOBSHITE was the instigator of it after the Orient match at the Goldstone wen RAY BUTCH WILKINS got beat up on the pitch by a fan and that BASTARD Mcgleish gave the dropping down signs to the North Stand after he put them 3 nil up 
bobby smith
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Theo wasnt there then He prob supported someone else at the time another little GOBSHITE bubble
BensGrandad
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Could somebody with more PC knowledge than me not search this out and come up with the answers/article
Captain Sensible
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Hearn the GOBSHITE was the instigator of it after the Orient match at the Goldstone wen RAY BUTCH WILKINS got beat up on the pitch by a fan and that BASTARD Mcgleish gave the dropping down signs to the North Stand after he put them 3 nil up
We were 2-0 up at half time, then orient went 3-2 up, that's when McGleish did the going down sign to the north stand. Or so my old still functioning brain cells tell me.
Lord Bamber
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I have tried to tap into my brain cells on this one so many times to relive it but all I can see is our fan cuff himself to the post at half time to know for sure what happened.
PaoloRossiJohnson
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Weren't Gillingham one of the clubs that voted to expel us?
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Nobody could remember then either Does any one remember re the details £500,000 bond and the ..........