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Post by Dave on Jul 1, 2009 18:15:20 GMT
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Post by Dave on Jul 6, 2009 19:58:14 GMT
So no one knows what the first game was ?and when it was played, I would have thought the away keeper might have been enough for you to at least get the name of the team we were playing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 20:40:57 GMT
This is a reminder of an era when I saw very little football at Plainmoor for the simple reason I was living three hundred miles away. It really seems like another age to me.
However I did travel down from Lancashire for the Tottenham game in 1987 and also made it to White Hart Lane for the return. Is that a future Torquay United player in the white of Spurs in some of your pictures?
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Post by Dave on Jul 6, 2009 20:51:51 GMT
What picture do you mean Barton. number nine is Chris Waddle.
in the first picture on the thread I'm sure you can put a name to all our players?
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Jul 6, 2009 21:23:12 GMT
It was 87/88 season and I believe from the opposition goalkeeper (Wells?) that it was Orient (prior to changing name to Leyton Orient). In the top photo I recognise Kenny Allen being shielded by John Impey (?), Tom Kelly at the back post - possibly Sean Haselgrave in there as well?
Looks like Lors and Dobbo in the next photo down - I believe that Dobbo scored that goal?
Perhaps the game against the team in blue was Rochdale?
I recognise Dave Cole
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Post by Dave on Jul 6, 2009 21:26:00 GMT
Otobe you are spot on in the first game and the score was one all, who is the player on the right hand goal post and who scored for us?
As I said not sure about the second game, but you may well be correct.
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Post by johnlovis on Jul 6, 2009 21:31:00 GMT
Cannot be absolutely sure but I think the first game is against Orient on 29th Aug 1987. The keeper I believe is Peter Wells (formerly of Nottingham Forest ) who definitely had red hair. The crowd in the old mini-stand are shirt-sleeved so the date would fit. The scorer in the 1-1 draw was Paul Dobson and from picture No.2 he is seen on the left with Mark Loram also in the frame. The next picture shows Dobbo turning away arms aloft in celebration. The Orient No.12 is John Sitton, later to become orient's manager and involved in a bleep-filled TV documentary about life at the arse end of the Football League.
I also believe the second game is against Cambridge United on 5th Sept 1987. They are wearing their away strip. Our players are #3 Tom Kelly #5 David Cole #6 Darren Cann and on the far post is poacher supreme Dobbo. The Cambridge #5 is Lindsay Smith, formerly with Argyle and a real hard man. We lost this game 1-0.
Obviously the final game is the Spurs League Cup game and Derek the Dude's big moment.
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Jul 6, 2009 21:37:21 GMT
Weird how you remember some players (Alan Wells) despite the low TV coverage of the lower level game and the fact that I might have seen him play just a couple of times.
One thing I would say about the second is that is David Cole challenging their keeper - another good player from a fantastic team.
I was only 10 that season, but I hurt so much after the Scunny defeat and the 3-3 draw against Swansea in the P-O final second leg. I just couldn't understand why that squad broke-up that summer - it was no surprise it took us a while to get going that following season.
It's been well debated that Stuart Morgan assembled several of the players that played in 87/88 but the Late, Great Cyril Knowles was just the greatest manager in my views as a young lad.
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