Crewe Alexandra(H).01/03/78

If you'd have told me four years earlier that the Man United star I had just seen scoring a brilliant Wembley hat-trick against West Germany would end up playing for Crewe Alexandra* I would not have believed you.

*For younger readers, pre-Gradi Crewe was nowhere near as sexy as post-Gradi Crewe.

Thanks as ever to Timbo for his programme posting. It's a shame we've grown rather negligent in our response.

That’s an interesting article from Alan about programme collecting. I wonder if he coined the word “programologist” or whether it was a recognised term at the time.

Is it just me but I doubt if programme collecting is anything like the hobby it once was?

And what about the typeface for Mike Green’s notes? Most quaint.

What a great name for a referee – Les Burden of Wimborne, Dorset.

Any relation to the comedian Billy Burden who came from the same town? I’m sure I saw him at the Princess Theatre before he became briefly famous.......