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Post by Epworth Hatter on Oct 15, 2019 19:40:20 GMT
I did mate, stopped off in a pub for a celebratory snort. Turned out the landlord was a toon and we ended up stopping the night on account of getting bladdered on the house. Most enjoyable. A cracking C.H.A.O.S. story there by the sounds of it, nye!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 15, 2019 20:01:27 GMT
yeah, and about one of those nights and upsets that most county fans are aware of. as a ten year old, i couldn't get there on a school night, but i certainly remember the papers the following morning. any more of it to tell when you've got time NYE would be much appreciated.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2019 5:15:55 GMT
There's probably not much to tell tbh. I was still at school myself although doing A-Levels so it was a bit part-time and my parents has probably given up on trying to divert most of my waking life from thinking about football or playing it or training, etc. I went with someone who I played cricket with which I itself was a rarity because at the time being a County fan was seen as a bit weird, even in Stockport so to know someone from Macclesfield who was a fellow diehard was something else, especially as he had a car.
I'd been to the first leg and we gave them a real run for their money and had been the better team for much of it so when Steve asked me if I wanted to go to the second leg I jumped at it. It was one of those tentative steps into adulthood you know wow... Sunderland...where exactly is Sunderland? Probably the second step actually, the first having been a year or so before when I sneaked off into town to see Motorhead and managed to get back so late (or early depending on your point of view) my parents had reported me missing and the Police were at the house lol.
On the way back we stopped off for last orders and a celebratory jar and the landlord was a Newcastle supporter who was taking the p**s out of a couple of his regulars. We got chatting and bingo! Suddenly their was a lock in and we ended up with a room each. It wasn't as memorable as the Liverpool games a few years later because of course they were European Champions at the time and we really had been the better team in the first leg and were only denied a win by the thickness of a post from an Oshor Williams shot 10 minutes in.
The second leg of that (by which time I was working and had my own car which was like opening Pandora's box) was something else entirely as we filled a corner and at the end of the game the Liverpool supporters gave the team a standing ovation after they'd needed extra-time to beat us. I could go on for ever, I was at Hereford the first time we beat them at Edgar Street along with literally 15 or so others, Caernarfon Town, least said about that the better, Telford United to see us dumped out of the cup after an alcohol soaked evening in Sheffield the night before. Anyway' enough. I need to get off to work and I could go on for the rest of the morning lol.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Oct 16, 2019 17:58:43 GMT
to know someone from Macclesfield who was a fellow diehard was something else, especially as he had a car. Ooh - potential ancestor alert! Might we perhaps be related? I think I should be told... 😉
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 16, 2019 20:09:52 GMT
cheers NYE. i don't remember much about the sunderland game apart from it being 1-1 and bryan 'pop' robson (who i didn't know that much about) playing for them.
funny with memory isn't it? in my head oshor rattled the bar at the old cheadle end, but it may well have been a different bit of woodwork. occasionally, when me and my brother are talking about games from years ago, we'll be equally sure on differing goalscorers, results etc from games we were both at. apart from the very greatest moments (all of us on the touchline in the dying seconds against scunthorpe, the flare and that italian chant (i can never remember the name of the classical piece it's based on) at blackburn, driving back from chesterfield and seeing every pub thronged with county...) some of that's very clear. some of the rest? my recall?, my brother's recall? (we both have ridiculously specific memories), somewhere in between? neither?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 1:09:07 GMT
cheers NYE. i don't remember much about the sunderland game apart from it being 1-1 and bryan 'pop' robson (who i didn't know that much about) playing for them. funny with memory isn't it? in my head oshor rattled the bar at the old cheadle end, but it may well have been a different bit of woodwork. occasionally, when me and my brother are talking about games from years ago, we'll be equally sure on differing goalscorers, results etc from games we were both at. apart from the very greatest moments (all of us on the touchline in the dying seconds against scunthorpe, the flare and that italian chant (i can never remember the name of the classical piece it's based on) at blackburn, driving back from chesterfield and seeing every pub thronged with county...) some of that's very clear. some of the rest? my recall?, my brother's recall? (we both have ridiculously specific memories), somewhere in between? neither? To be fair to your memory Oshor Williams hit the joint of post and crossbar but you're right it's curious what one can and can't remember. I don't remember Pop Robson playing although I do remember Sam Allardyce, he may even have scored for them and how many people remember Dave Sunley who got the first at Roker Park? In one of his recent articles for the programme Oshor Williams said that he couldn't remember Tommy Sword missing a penalty. He'd obviously forgotten the one at Bloomfield Road although it didn't make much difference since Blackpool scored 4. As for mine, I can remember minor events in football matches nearly 40 years ago but when my son points out that one of our opponents has a former County player in their squad from within the last 5 or 6 years I find that their exploits in a County shirt have left such an indelible blank on my mind that I frequently have no recollection of them at all. And you wouldn't believe the number of times I forget to take my sandwiches to work!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 17, 2019 19:20:40 GMT
the last (county) bit is very true. when i started it was all oshor, dave lawson and john rutter, ken fogarty, les bradd, then steve sherlock and tommy sword, david booth, steve uzelac, mike czuzman (sp), mickey wardrobe, nigel smith and all that lot. very much remember dave sunley. i thought he was crap. and his hair was crap. and his 'tache was crap. but to be fair i didn't know that much about football (plus ca change and all that). i was also slightly impressed that chris galvin's brother played for spurs at the time.
it felt like a more settled squad then, whereas neil young kept one or two and we've had summers where we're only retained four or five and then also played the loan market like mad. unless they're exceptional (and few were) it's difficult to stack them all up.
i have no idea whether liam brady played against us. i'm sure you'll know. i rememember alan sunderland and i think frank stapleton, as well as john hollins and i think o'leary played. viv anderson? not sure. i remembered george wood even without the mention the other night though because my gran was disappointed that pat jennings didn't play.
when you've forgotten your sandwiches, do you suddenly get a crystal clear mental picture of them where you left them, that kind of barges into your consciousness? i very occasionally get home and then suddenly 'see' that my keys are in the door of my locker at work. usually precipitates some swearing.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 17, 2019 19:29:26 GMT
That flash of despair when you visualise your lunch is still at home cuts very deep.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 17, 2019 19:30:54 GMT
isn't it a wedge of rustic tortilla and a lump of manchego now duds?
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 17, 2019 19:40:17 GMT
isn't it a wedge of rustic tortilla and a lump of manchego now duds? Got just over a week to go ARS! Until then butties and sarnies it is
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 17, 2019 20:43:11 GMT
just got up from your siesta have you?
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 17, 2019 20:44:32 GMT
and hang on...butties and sarnies? is there a difference that i've never noticed?
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Post by gazz on Oct 17, 2019 20:55:12 GMT
and hang on...butties and sarnies? is there a difference that i've never noticed? I reckon a butty is cut square and a sarnie is cut in triangles... Am I right, Duds?
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 17, 2019 20:56:45 GMT
Arrow like intellect there Gazzman...I think
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 27, 2019 12:43:17 GMT
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