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Post by bigfudge on May 17, 2017 12:47:25 GMT
I only went to the Port Vale and Burnley games, the old Wembley was a terrible place for me results wise! Thankfully I don't remember any of the Vale game and only tiny bits of the day when we played Burnley...my luck with England was no better, I saw us lose 2-0 to France and 2-0 to Chile! I even saw us lose 1-0 to Scotland, though that was softened by the fact we won the first leg in Glasgow 2-0 to still progress on the night.
Thankfully the new Wembley has been much kinder! I've seen England beat Andorra 6-0, Croatia 5-1, Wales 1-0 and Scotland 3-2 and of course most importantly, I got to see County win there! I can't say I'm gutted to see the back of the old one!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on May 17, 2017 20:10:22 GMT
was my second visit - i'd seen england draw 1-1 with the republic of ireland in spring 1991. awful game, awful atmosphere - pretty violent. goal from lee dixon! then i was broken by the county defeats. the auto-wotsit ones didn't matter that much. for stoke, we knew we were back for the one that mattered (and that we'd denied them) the following week. after vale, i was pretty proud of us.
the circumstances of the two play off finals though... having it snatched so late after the jubilation of the late equaliser ourselves, and then knowing after the burnley game that some of that squad had gone as far as it could with us and would start to leave... those two were as hard as it has got watching county.
i then sat through a 0-0 bore draw in about '96 against uruguay when there were only 20,000 in attendance.
in the new place, i've seen blackpool win two playoff finals, county win ours, and then blackpool lose to west ham - so a much better record.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on May 18, 2017 11:03:50 GMT
i think we still have a couple of the little flags they gave us in county and stoke colours at my mum's house! that one mattered, but the 25th anniversary we'll be celebrating in a week was the heartbreaker. ken effing charlery... it's just a pity they couldn't have had McMinn, Elleray, Mullen, Bodenham, Charnley, Robbie Hart, Lou Macari, Stein, Heath and Biggins sat in the royal box as it crumbled to the ground! Hopefully, matey, there may be enough room to include John Francis - in recognition of his horrible challenge on Keeley - too?
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Post by gazz on May 18, 2017 11:17:34 GMT
it's just a pity they couldn't have had McMinn, Elleray, Mullen, Bodenham, Charnley, Robbie Hart, Lou Macari, Stein, Heath and Biggins sat in the royal box as it crumbled to the ground! Hopefully, matey, there may be enough room to include John Francis - in recognition of his horrible challenge on Keeley - too? Definitely, how he got away with that is anyone's guess. Aside from the day we went out of the FL and then the Conference National, that's probably the worst day I've ever witnessed supporting County. We were seriously screwed over that day by a man who clearly had a problem with us. There have been THREE separate occasions where his decisions cost us massively - Port Vale Autoglass - Slaven's handball Burnley in the playoffs - Christ, where to start?... But that was the game that broke Danny's mojo, I'm absolutely convinced of that - he was never the same after that. Middlesbrough in the League cup semi first leg - Ravanelli's clear as day foul on Flynny to gain an advantage before scoring. I absolutely loathe that man.
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Post by bigfudge on May 22, 2017 15:35:00 GMT
Whilst this one is very much aimed at myself, it was on this day 47 years ago that the Vancouver Canucks would be given a licence to leave the old Pacific Hockey League and join the NHL!
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jul 8, 2017 12:11:27 GMT
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jul 31, 2017 5:49:24 GMT
The Lost Boys released 30 years ago today.
Feel old yet?
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Post by gazz on Jul 31, 2017 12:06:59 GMT
The Lost Boys released 30 years ago today. Feel old yet? Brilliant movie! I was 18 when that came out - where have all those years gone?!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jul 31, 2017 20:38:59 GMT
epworth is strange, gazz-man is stranger...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 9:29:46 GMT
1977 - Elvis Presley died.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 16, 2017 11:40:19 GMT
Forty years ago - quite unbelievable.
May The King continue to RIP (occasional 'sightings' notwithstanding!).
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Post by gazz on Aug 16, 2017 13:04:03 GMT
1977 - Elvis Presley died. ... and he was six years younger than me when he passed away, which over the years has gone from being ancient to me to being a sobering thought - I wonder if he'd have lived a lot longer had he bought flowers for his Mum's birthday back in 1953 instead. My eldest son was named after his middle name, but with one 'A', not two. An argument still goes on to this day regarding which is the correct spelling, but I prefer the one I gave my son as, rightly or wrongly, that was the name written on his birth certificate. Continue to RIP, Hillbilly Cat.
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Post by ceefer on Sept 24, 2017 16:44:16 GMT
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a compnany making playing cards.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 19:29:37 GMT
My son was born, 21 years ago on the day we thrashed Sheffield United at Bramall Lane in the League cup
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Sept 24, 2017 22:15:35 GMT
happy birthday to your boy, NYE. an auspicious birth date for a county fan.
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