timbo
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Post by timbo on Sept 10, 2009 20:45:55 GMT
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Sept 10, 2009 21:00:16 GMT
Good to see top man Steve Copper in there.
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Sept 11, 2009 18:20:59 GMT
Thanks for these Timbo.
One of the names in the Rochdale team for two games in the programme room, September 1980 and Novemebr 1981, is a manager for the company I work for.
He was playing when Rioch scored THAT goal and he can still vividly recall the look on his team mates' faces as it gradually dawned on them that he was going to have a pop from that ridiculous distance when they were sure he wouldn't and then the look of shock and horror as the ball whistled into the back of the net.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 23:01:14 GMT
I'll have a closer look at these programmes over the weekend but, in the meantime, one memory of a trip to Rochdale is ringing Spotland one afternoon in the 1980s to check if an evening game was going ahead after a considerable amount of rain. I was working in Blackburn at the time so it must have been around 1986 or 1987 and, to this day, I'm convinced Tommy Docherty answered the phone. Eddie Gray was manager in those days so I'm not sure what The Doc was doing at Spotland but, when I enquired to check the kick-off time, I got the old "what time can you make it?" line.....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2009 9:06:49 GMT
Unless there's a rival garden centre in the locality - with a similar logo - All in One Garden Centre of Middleton had a spell as Rochdale's shirt sponsors. Does anyone else remember the watering can logo that appeared on the front of their shirts? There's an excellent book about following Rochdale as a child called Believe In the Sign, written by Mark Hodkinson. See a review at: www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/192/28/ |
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