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Jim, brilliant memories mate, Runcorn 86 in the Trophy at Wembley, you lead a massive sing and follow chant, my Man City mate was very impressed, can you recall it?

Vaguely, I used to start a fair few songs then. I'm afraid my memory for most things is a bit selective these days

I wish I hadn't been so cool and actually kept some of this stuff!
One thing that hits me is that's a proper match report, you don't see many of them these days

I remember that Pete, and for lots of matches after we would shout to tell the keeper where Heathcote was going to put it!

PS Gazelle I don't get your question mate, I was in the Golf Rd and yes, Orient had the section of Popular Side. We tried that a few times that season, Vics were put there too I recall.

I imagine he was in the Chequers like me despite always standing on the Golf Road normally
Was it tickets? Cannot think why we would have gone in that end unless we had to

What an away following though

Quote from: jiminlondon on June 18, 2013, 11:04:23 PM

Leytonstone and ilford, Green Pond Road I think
Massive it was

I went to that game but don't remember the ground being esp. big.  Any idea what the capacity was and the gate when we played them?

My memory for this stuff is awful, I simply remember it being a big old bowl of a place with virtually nobody there, and Wooly and I sat on a big lump of terracing on our own and watched the game from there.

Record attendance 21,708 for Olympic football 1948!

I don't even remember the Radio Times

My view for what it's worth
Brackley were bigger, stronger and more physical than us and no Alty player (bar Havern) had a good day, so really we were just beaten by the better team on the day. Refs always seem to have their own interpretation of what is an acceptable amount of contact and unfortunately yesterdays was one of the let it go variety which played right into Brackleys hands, against sides that play like that teams like ours need protection and we didn't get it which made the task in hand even more difficult, the ref didn't remotely cost us the game though.
Before the game we felt that if it was goalless after 30 minutes the odds would swing our way, then bang 3 minutes and it never got better.
Anyway my point is these things happen, I'm not happy about it but sometimes you get beaten and that's a fact. Of course I would have preferred us to go down in a better fashion but again you need some luck and we didn't even have that yesterday - at the start of he second half you could see Brackley were nervous and if we had taken one of our half chances then who knows?

For all the talk of Brackleys ground - pathetic for this level - and the money spent on the team, I left feeling a bit sorry for the town. While I went to the game my partner wandered around and after said it was a lovely quiet sleepy place where nothing much happens. I would hazard a guess that most people who live there never signed up for the visit of Halifax next week never mind Luton et al if they get promoted, and now because of the money they are operating at a level too big for the town to handle.