timbo
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Post by timbo on Sept 20, 2020 10:40:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 12:02:22 GMT
Mike pinpoints Andy Gray and Emlyn Hughes as important factors in Wolves improvement. A pity that neither one of them travelled down to play in that Ben Street testimonial he refers to. Keener to come down and take part I see, were former Argyle legend, Billy Rafferty, who would have received a warm Plainmoor welcome for sure, and Colin Brazier. Colin always did like the South West, and I remember bumping into him in Padstow when he was on holiday in the early 1980's.
Those other 4th Division scorelines make particularly interesting reading. Plenty of goals around. Almost 5000 in attendance for the big Lincolnshire derby, and I see the lad Sunley was on the scoresheet for The Imps ... always a player for the big occasion I expect.
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Post by Jon on Sept 21, 2020 23:49:31 GMT
Mike pinpoints Andy Gray and Emlyn Hughes as important factors in Wolves improvement. A pity that neither one of them travelled down to play in that Ben Street testimonial he refers to. Keener to come down and take part I see, were former Argyle legend, Billy Rafferty, who would have received a warm Plainmoor welcome for sure, and Colin Brazier. It was not a lack of keenness that stopped Emlyn Hughes and Andy Gray travelling to Plainmoor. They were both on international duty for Euro 80 qualifiers. In the end Gray missed Scotland's Hampden 1-1 draw with Austria through injury, while Hughes was an unused sub as England thrashed Northern Ireland 5-1 at Windsor Park. |
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Post by stefano on Sept 22, 2020 7:38:03 GMT
......... They were both on international duty for Euro 80 qualifiers. ........ while Hughes was an unused sub as England thrashed Northern Ireland 5-1 at Windsor Park. The first ever international game I saw. A Plymouth lad scored 2 of the England goals. A month later I saw the first ever game between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland since partition in 1921 in the same competition at Windsor Park - a 1-0 win for Northern Ireland in a strange atmosphere with the Irish tricolour being burned on the terraces by sectarian thugs. Mind you over the next few years football would become a game dominated by mindless idiots who had no real interest in the game but latched on to it as an excuse for mindless violence. I am sure football lost thousands of genuine fans during that time many who never chose to return. There was a lot going on at the Irish border at that time, but I would never have suspected that 40 years later the same border would be the subject of such political intrigue and controversy in a very different way. |
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