timbo
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Post by timbo on Jan 1, 2010 14:40:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2010 20:33:27 GMT
We were only talking about the snows of January 1979 on our way to...er... Stockport the other week. According to my accomplice, an obscure TV channel has been showing old editions of the Big Match from that period (including plenty of instalments from the Sheffield Wednesday v Arsenal saga that went to a 4th replay).
I was a student in Nottingham at the time and was enormously disappointed in not being able to get to the game at Newcastle. Now is my memory paying tricks but was the draw for the 3rd round made immediately after our 2nd round game at Leamington? I know mythology says the FA Cup draw was always made at 12.30 on a Monday live on Radio 2, but I'm sure I can remember hunting down a TV shop in Leamington that Saturday evening.
I’m pretty certain the original Newcastle game – scheduled for Saturday 6 January – was postponed on the Friday and, with teaching practice rapidly approaching, I knew there was no chance of making the game unless it was postponed over and over again until another Saturday date became available.
So, instead of a trip north, we headed to Leicester v Norwich which survived thanks to the famous Filbert Street balloon. And, from delving into the programme boxes, it looks like I managed to take advantage of the snow-plagued fixture list by managing two other 3rd round games: Notts County v Reading on 9 January and Forest v Villa on 10 January (the same day as Timbo was fortunate to see the headline-grabbing draw between Spurs and Altrincham). Furthermore, the snow was still around later in the month when I saw Forest beat York in a 4th round game played on a white pitch with an orange ball.
And this thread’s quiz question: who scored a hat trick for Spurs when they eventually beat Altrincham in the replay at Maine Road?
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Post by merse on Jan 1, 2010 21:48:35 GMT
Now is my memory paying tricks but was the draw for the 3rd round made immediately after our 2nd round game at Leamington? I know mythology says the FA Cup draw was always made at 12.30 on a Monday live on Radio 2, but I'm sure I can remember hunting down a TV shop in Leamington that Saturday evening. I’m pretty certain the original Newcastle game – scheduled for Saturday 6 January – was postponed on the Friday And this thread’s quiz question: who scored a hat trick for Spurs when they eventually beat Altrincham in the replay at Maine Road?  Actually THAT draw was in process whilst the final seconds were being played out at Leamington due to the hold up caused by those renegade Walsall fans. The players were in the showers when our name came out of the hat for a trip to Newcastle and I remember us all going potty with excitement.............. excitement that was soon diffused when the freeze hit in the week leading up to the game and in the end I recall we were virtually camped out up in the North East between the date of the THIRD attempt to get the game on and the day it was actually played ~ a further 24 hour delay if I recall correctly after all these years. I'll never forget the sly look and grin on Newcastle manager Bill McGarry's face when the pitch inspection for one of the games rulled "unfit" (he never was the most pleasant of people) as he knew that with each call off, the chances of them facing a rampant little club high on adrenalin was fast fading and that we would soon be as world weary with all the abortive travelling as his second rate team of old lags that must rank pretty low down the pecking order of sides turned out by that huge North Eastern giant. Oh and that hat trick scorer? Why Colin Lee of course! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 17:41:04 GMT
I was at the Newcastle United v Manchester City League Cup tie on Wednesday and the programme did a retrospective of the 1976 League Cup final at Wembley. This included a reproduction of the programme from that final. Tempting fate, of course, because Newcastle lost that one as well. Back then they had a former Torquay goalkeeper in their team. You can spot a very 1970s-looking Mike Mahoney in the team picture:  And for more of that 1970s look here's some Newcastle supporters down in London for the game. Now that's how I remember Newcastle United supporters. These days they're far more spick and span with that tame Premier League respectability about them.   Nowadays it's a former Torquay United defender in the Newcastle line-up and Mike Williamson was featured in Wednesday's programme. When asked which team he supported as a child he diplomatically mentioned two: Port Vale (because of his dad) and, yes, Torquay United. Not a bad answer, lad. Then, when discussing team mates, there was a light-hearted reference to Dan Gosling neatly continuing that fine South Devon tradition of taking the piss out of the Brixham boys. |
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