42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 6:24 pm
We got a bit wet walking down Brunshaw Hill for that one 
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Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 6:36 pm
Good old Kevin Young
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 7:44 pm
The steps between Bee Hole End and Longside was like a fast flowing river. Game would never have started under normal circumstances. Horrible start to the season but what a brilliant turnaround.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 7:48 pm
Should never have been played.
Nobody dared call, it off though.
Nobody dared call, it off though.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 7:53 pm
Was this the Chesterfield game?
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 8:14 pm
Yes.
Had my leather jacket on. Took a fortnight to dry out.
They gave a dodgy gate number that night too.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:18 pm
Unforgettable, more puddles than grass.Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:14 pmYes.
Had my leather jacket on. Took a fortnight to dry out.
They gave a dodgy gate number that night too.
My highlight was the ball launched halfway into the other end of the pitch that came down from the heavens, and didn't bounce at all.
It's one of those no one would believe you if they weren't there.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:20 pm
You were lucky. I had a suede jacket on.Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:14 pmYes.
Had my leather jacket on. Took a fortnight to dry out.
They gave a dodgy gate number that night too.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:41 pm
wasn't the Chesterfield game on 18th May 1982? Same day as the club's centenary, and also my mum's birthday
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 11:35 pm
Maybe it could well have been that it was in the paper on the 21st my mistake 
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 3:23 am
It was Tuesday 18th of May according to UTC. Just checked. I was there. Drove up from Kidsgrove.TheHistoryLecturer24 wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 11:35 pmMaybe it could well have been that it was in the paper on the 21st my mistake
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 6:31 am
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 8:16 am
Blimey………………………4……………..2 soddin years ago………..
Well that’s cheered me up.
Well that’s cheered me up.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 8:26 am
We'll take good care of you, Paul McGee, Paul McGee.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 8:45 am
Was it ‘good care’ or ‘more care’? Probably both! That game should not have been played even then. The ground was a lake
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 12:10 pm
Norman Jones on the pitch before kick off with a fork....
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 12:10 pm
The ref wanted to call off the game but Brian Miller was seen pointing to the very large crowd and talking to the referee.
Wasn't the kick off delayed to allow the ground staff to fork the pitch and remove some of the standing water?
Wasn't the kick off delayed to allow the ground staff to fork the pitch and remove some of the standing water?
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 9:28 pm
It was. They were still coming in even after the delayed start.gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 12:10 pmThe ref wanted to call off the game but Brian Miller was seen pointing to the very large crowd and talking to the referee.
Wasn't the kick off delayed to allow the ground staff to fork the pitch and remove some of the standing water?
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 9:43 pm
Isn’t that the one they opened the away end for us on the turf because the long side was absolutely packed and no chesterfield fans came - so you crossed over the no mans land into it.. i seem to recall doing that … the long side was absolutely rammed
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 9:52 pm
Think they did.
Said up the thread, my mate & l climbed over to get onto the Beehole. Even that was pretty full.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 11:57 pm
I was 16, would love to turn the clock back.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Thu May 23, 2024 2:05 pm
I was 28. I definitely would.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 2:00 pm
Goodness me, it's scary. I was 19 at the time. I remember trying my best to keep my programme dry but failed miserably.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 11:45 pm
I missed this game. I was otherwise engaged in Belfast.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 11:55 pm
Remember it well , I was 11 , my first proper promotion, I used used to walk down from cleaver street with my Dad every week and count the away coaches around Queens to guess the gate . I felt invincible that year and looking back what a side ! ….
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 12:18 am
Not a game I recall but then I was just under 8 months old.
Re: 42 years ago tonight
Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 2:39 pm
My first main season, what a team