timbo
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Post by timbo on Jan 26, 2013 22:11:50 GMT
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Jan 28, 2013 16:39:32 GMT
Many thanks Timbo for you recent additions to this wonderful programmes room, I hope you add many more as they are a joy to read. Do we know why the gate for this game was more than 10.000 higher than other games against us around that time?
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Post by stefano on Jan 28, 2013 17:20:23 GMT
Many thanks Timbo for you recent additions to this wonderful programmes room, I hope you add many more as they are a joy to read. Do we know why the gate for this game was more than 10.000 higher than other games against us around that time? My first derby game and one I remember well. An incredible 16000+ crowd for a 0-0 draw and then 3 days later 13000+ at Plainmoor for a 1-1 draw. Possible reasons to answer your question Dave:- (1) Both teams were well in the promotion race heading into the final furlong; (2) It was Easter. Good Friday at St James Park and Easter Monday at Plainmoor; (3) Most of the other games between us during that period were mid-week cup games as we were in different divisions. |
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Post by Dave on Jan 28, 2013 19:02:16 GMT
Many thanks Timbo for you recent additions to this wonderful programmes room, I hope you add many more as they are a joy to read. Do we know why the gate for this game was more than 10.000 higher than other games against us around that time? My first derby game and one I remember well. An incredible 16000+ crowd for a 0-0 draw and then 3 days later 13000+ at Plainmoor for a 1-1 draw. Possible reasons to answer your question Dave:- (1) Both teams were well in the promotion race heading into the final furlong; (2) It was Easter. Good Friday at St James Park and Easter Monday at Plainmoor; (3) Most of the other games between us during that period were mid-week cup games as we were in different divisions. Many thanks Stefano, you have a wonderful memory and the only thing that is shame these days is you do not see such sizable crowds watching local derby matches. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 7:33:24 GMT
Trying to imagine a crowd of 16000 in St James Park is mind-boggling. There must have been people fainting. And what a brilliant programme. I love the team line-ups presented inside a television screen which would have been the only time most of these players were ever featured on TV.
And if there is one thing which sums up the sixties just as much as Beatlemania and Muhammad Ali it would have to be Barrow and Hartlepools at the bottom of the League.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 18:00:30 GMT
Liverpool were still wearing white shorts at this time so I wonder whether Exeter in 1963 were the first English club ever to register all red as their kit. www.historicalkits.co.uk has the Grecians, for one season only, in red shirts and shorts, and white socks with red rings on the tops. Torquay's 63/4 strip isn't listed but the previous season they wore a strikingly beautiful outfit of gold shirts with V necks, blue shorts and hooped socks. So much better than Mansfield with their nasty mustard shirts. |
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