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[Kingys Beard]

East Levenshulme?

[GB Alty]

Enfield,Ebbsfleet, Eastwood Town, Eastwood Hanley,Everton,ExeterCity,Epson/Ewell, Ellesmere Port, Eastbourne Earlstown

this is it with the addition of Emley

[bighairedmike]

A late bonus point for anyone who can identify the team whose name begins with the letter 'E' against whom Alty have played a friendly during the last 40 years......

Eyley?

[SW]

Although I have it in my head that we played Epsom & Ewell in a friendly as well as the Trophy I am probably wrong. Was it East Fife?

[roytonmike]

Although I have it in my head that we played Epsom & Ewell in a friendly as well as the Trophy I am probably wrong. Was it East Fife?

Yes.

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Although I have it in my head that we played Epsom & Ewell in a friendly as well as the Trophy I am probably wrong. Was it East Fife?

7th August 1982

Altrincham 1 (Heathcote)  East Fife 2 (Hutt, Wedderburn)

[SW]

Absolutely no idea how I remembered that.

[Uncle Globnasty]

7th August 1982

Altrincham 1 (Heathcote)  East Fife 2 (Hutt, Wedderburn)

We used to have quite a thing with pre-season Friendlies against Scottish (a foreign land?) sides. I can also recall Stirling Albion and Greenock Morton and I think there may have been others....my recollection grows hazy.

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

We played Arbroath one year in the early 90's.

[MadFrankie]

While we're talking about friendlies, what's the most random friendly you've been to?
I'll start the ball rolling with away at Alton Royale. It was somewhere in Birmingham in a roped off field in the early 90s but can't recall which season, nor the score nor any indication of the result. Can someone else confirm that this game really happened?

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

While we're talking about friendlies, what's the most random friendly you've been to?
I'll start the ball rolling with away at Alton Royale. It was somewhere in Birmingham in a roped off field in the early 90s but can't recall which season, nor the score nor any indication of the result. Can someone else confirm that this game really happened?

You were not hallucinating:

20th July 1991

Olton Royale...1  Altrincham...4

There's even a match programme for that fixture.

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Did anyone on here attend the Hillingdon Borough and Wycombe Wanderers away pre-season friendlies on consecutive days back in August 1972?

 

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

7th August 1982

Altrincham 1 (Heathcote)  East Fife 2 (Hutt, Wedderburn)

We used to have quite a thing with pre-season Friendlies against Scottish (a foreign land?) sides. I can also recall Stirling Albion and Greenock Morton and I think there may have been others....my recollection grows hazy.

Another one for the list: Montrose in July 1990.

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

Altrincham v Mazda was a bit bizarre

[MadFrankie]

While we're talking about friendlies, what's the most random friendly you've been to?
I'll start the ball rolling with away at Alton Royale. It was somewhere in Birmingham in a roped off field in the early 90s but can't recall which season, nor the score nor any indication of the result. Can someone else confirm that this game really happened?

You were not hallucinating:

20th July 1991

Olton Royale...1  Altrincham...4

There's even a match programme for that fixture.

That has revived the memory - I think that King & Heathcote were still in charge then, before departing a week or two later?