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taste not improved in 30 years then gazelle?

while theres nothing wrong with remembering the past of course we have to live in the present. until someone decides that football clubs can only pay what they earn we will struggle to stay in this division. i suspect most wouldnt have it any other way.
every time i have seen the team in recent times (mainly london and s.e.)  little has been head and shoulders the best player. not necessarily the one who tried hardest but the one with the little something extra which wins you games.
if he was younger, fitter, quicker, he wouldnt be playing for us

Quote from: jiminlondon on November 13, 2007, 10:59:01 AM

i often wonder if the macc/vics thing is age related
to me macc dont rate very highly, maybe because when i started they were a nothing club
whereas northwich was a big game
anyone?

I suspect that the pivotal point regarding whether Macc or Vics are our main rivals was the creation of the Alliance Premier League for the 1979/80 season.

During the 1960s and for most of the 1970s, Alty v Macc was always 'the big one'.

As Macc declined during the mid to late 1970s, so the rivalry faded a little.

Macc were not good enough to qualify for the APL in 1979 and it wasn't until 1987 that they gained promotion to the GM Vauxhall Conference and played us in a league fixture again.

During those early years of the Alliance Premier League, Vics effectively emerged as our main local rivals in the absence of the Milkmen.



 

well there you go. i started going mid 70s when macc were no threat, and had left for london by 87 so missed the resurgence. i know a lot of my mates around the same age still think of northwich as the enemy rather than macc.

With joy?

I was close to tears at the 0-5 defeat to Rotherham in 76-7 and actually did cry at the 0-0 Scarborough game at Millmoor later that season as I knew our chance to go to Wembley had slipped away.

joy isnt quite right
i too was at the 5-0 which was devastating as a 14 year old. i think in some ways the second game was the the culmination of something. you knew we were a good side and had our moments in the cup, but that afternoon we took them to bits. i remember just thinking that this couldnt go on, that they would come into it, but it just never happened. when they got the penalty you thought 'here we go' but then stepney saved it and i just cried. out of them all its the game i think of as the defining moment. (only sheff utd comes close)
by the way thegazelle took the mick out of me for this for ages after


at the end of last season against exeter we were stood on the golf road when alty got a free kick. we had a discussion about how they were going to lift it over the wall for chalmers to run on to, because we had been trying to do that free kick since jeff johnson was in the side, and it never worked.
lo and behold it just bloody worked. oh how we laughed

on mature reflection you can say at least we're not like gainsboro, 6-0 at home to hartlepool
really we would have been better off drawing a non league club than a div 1 club. imagine if we had vics at home...6000 and the real prospect of serious disorder

even 5live said it was harsh

they are worried about the return of the ARS or something

just spat my tea out
havent thought of that in years

just amazing to think that the team shown wasnt even the best one we had in that era

i was already living in london when we played brum. we took a minibus up for the first game full of mates etc and when it was called off went to see coventry v watford as one of the lads knew someone who lived by highfield road
3 of us took the train up for the rearranged game but took along a villa fan of our acquantance (who i think enjoyed it more than us!)

its so sad that there is no decent quality footage of the night because i would like to see if we did comprehensively outplay a top division side. i remember chatting to a copper next to me and him saying it would be a travesty if we didnt get something out of it just before hopkins scored the own goal. we didnt even celebrate just laughed and laughed.