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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 20:57:10 GMT
This was my third visit to Bury in successive seasons. I've been back to Gigg Lane three times since but only once to see Torquay United: 1-0 (Graham) in November 2002. My written team changes are faint but there's another classy alteration at number eight. Last time it was Bruce Rioch; this time it's Tony Currie. Not the biggest stage of TC's career; just 1,329 in attendance. I won't profess to remembering a single thing about this match or my visit to Bury (it must have been a rush after work and a late train home via Manchester) but, after a decent sequence of results, I'm sure I was cautiously optimistic about our prospects under this Webb fellow. Wilf McGuinness had hopefully got Old Trafford out of his system by 1984 but it's an interesting reference to Torquay being "tucked away down in Devon". I guess we'd see Bury as being "tucked away between Bolton and Rochdale". It's all relative. Lovely tale about Mrs Doris Robinson and Mrs Susan Freely frantically ringing Bury FC from Malta. Good grief didn't they have Live Scores Update or whatever loaded on their phones? The attendances are interesting particularly if you look at the lowest recorded by each club to date. It was, if anything, to get slightly worse. I'm not sure if it's a period over which to become too nostalgic.
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Post by rjdgull on Nov 1, 2013 21:00:59 GMT
Nice one barts!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 21:11:23 GMT
No problem but I hope Timbo gets his computer fixed. I don't know how he does it. Hats off to the man!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 21:56:27 GMT
Those top scorers are worth looking at again. That would be Dave Caldwell and Paul Dobson at Mansfield and Hartlepool down in the bottom three there. No wonder York were top of the table with John Byrne and Keith Walwyn up front. The only two men with 20 goals at this stage of the season though were two men who just could not stop scoring year after year: Trevor Senior and Tony Adcock
Micky Quinn had left Stockport for Oldham in January but was still County's top scorer, Allan Mayes of Swindon was a man who bagged a lot of goals in his career, while Darlington's Alan Walsh was a very decent striker who moved to Bristol City and whose daughter is now married to Kelsey Grammer, the star of Frasier.
Steve Kendal of Chesterfield left under a bit of a cloud after his team mate Brian Ferguson lost his Sickness Benefit giro one day and it turned up, allegedly, in Kendal's kit bag. Didn't he play a game or two for Torquay United as well?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 22:05:54 GMT
Those top scorers are worth looking at again...The only two men with 20 goals at this stage of the season though were two men who just could not stop scoring year after year: Trevor Senior and Tony Adcock...Darlington's Alan Walsh was a very decent striker who moved to Bristol City and whose daughter is now married to Kelsey Grammer, the star of Frasier. Steve Kendal of Chesterfield left under a bit of a cloud after his team mate Brian Ferguson lost his Sickness Benefit giro one day and it turned up, allegedly, in Kendal's kit bag. Didn't he play a game or two for Torquay United as well? Steve Kendal played for Torquay United during 1986 which was a rather testing year. Like the one before and a fair chunk of the one afterwards. Alan Walsh and Trevor Senior both ended up in Westcountry non-league football. Senior is from Dorset anyway and I think he's back managing Bridport.
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