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 The town that's thrived - after an identity crisis

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TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe

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The town that's thrived - after an identity crisis
« on: June 21, 2017, 07:32:24 PM »


MEN nostalgia article including some photographs of Alty playing against Spurs (1979) and Birmingham City respectively.

Mind you, that photograph of the town's former Tory MP Anthony Barber looks like it was taken in Timperley Village rather than at Altrincham market to me:


http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/altrincham-nostalgia-history-trafford-market-13216184
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"It was just two world class players going for a 50/50 ball."

John King's description of a crunching tackle on Ossie Ardiles in the FA Cup Third Round tie at White Hart Lane: 10th January 1979.

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Re: The town that's thrived - after an identity crisis
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2017, 10:09:28 PM »
Obviously a Freudian  slip. Timperley is indeed thriving.....Altrincham patently isn't.
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Re: The town that's thrived - after an identity crisis
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2017, 04:24:56 PM »
aye indeed it is timperley and did not mag the bag stay at the cresta court?
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