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Cmon Shrewsbury. As well as being a team I have a soft spot for I fancy that awayday next season. Went to the Old Gay Meadow (not to be confused when the Old Grey Whistle Test) but remember little about it as I was a keen underage drinker at the time. I grew out of that though. Now I'm just a drinker.
Go the Shrews! Do it for Derek.
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today the big one on 17:02 - May 27 with 4394 views
I think I saw us beat them 4-0 in my first ever attended match. It was basically a million years ago though. Rotherham going up. Weren't they stuck in the same division for like 30 years or some shit?
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MARTI THE REDEEMER WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
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today the big one on 17:51 - May 27 with 4316 views
Wigan, long hike from the station, though unusual walking down the tow path. Think that pub at Wigan Pier may be gone.
Blackburn, not keen on the journey, by car is boring, from Euston is a mistake because of the arsing around in Manchester, Kings Cross and change at York is also a drag.
Swansea, no idea, been there but not for football. Mind you a bloke told me you can go on the piss after the game and catch an overnight sleeper back to Paddington. Sounds like a viable option.
Stoke, ok trip, always enjoyed the pubs though had to be alert for potential fisticuffs. Recall a trip up there cancelled due to an 'earthquake' damaging a stand at their old ground.
WBA, easy enough, no real pro's or cons about the place 'cept one of my brother in laws follows 'em. A couple of years ago some of the whipper snappers in the White Horse told me their chaps were rather keen of causing us injury citing a number of ungentlemanly incidents, but whether this was organized or just their bad luck god only knows.
For the attention of Mr Paddox. Not keen on the blandness of style, but function over form I suppose.
I went to Gay Meadow during the 82/83 Venables promotion season - I think it was a 0-0 draw
They had a coracle boatman on standby for when the ball fell in the river.
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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today the big one on 11:02 - May 28 with 3837 views
today the big one on 10:29 - May 28 by DannyPaddox
Oh well. Rotherham it is. A place I've managed to avoid so far. Did someone say B&Q?
Remember I think during the 1982/3 Venables promotion season Simon Stainrod getting a clattering from their basic agricultural Sheffieild born centre half Paul Stannicliffe when Emlyn 'Crazy Horse' Hughes was their manager.. So when the ref's back was turned, Simon flobbed on him full straight in the face and was ready to fight...I think he was sensibly subbed. LATER EDIT: Stainrod v Stanncliffe might have been afters from the season before The Extraordinary Battle Of Millmoor 27th March 1982 the week before the WBA FA Cup Semi-Final epic of Clive Allen's knee at Highbury.
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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today the big one on 11:25 - May 28 with 3810 views
today the big one on 11:02 - May 28 by 18StoneOfHoop
Remember I think during the 1982/3 Venables promotion season Simon Stainrod getting a clattering from their basic agricultural Sheffieild born centre half Paul Stannicliffe when Emlyn 'Crazy Horse' Hughes was their manager.. So when the ref's back was turned, Simon flobbed on him full straight in the face and was ready to fight...I think he was sensibly subbed. LATER EDIT: Stainrod v Stanncliffe might have been afters from the season before The Extraordinary Battle Of Millmoor 27th March 1982 the week before the WBA FA Cup Semi-Final epic of Clive Allen's knee at Highbury.
I thought Fenwick was hard done by, there. Whether his arm made contact with Hughes or not, you see Hughes still going for the ball and then getting it full in the face. I reckon that is what dropped him.
Love the cheesy synth 'Big Game' theme. Lots of curious nuggets from yore. The Rotherham school kids being led around the pitch before the game like hostages. Ian Dawes debut. Gerry 'Grecian 2000' Gow trying to break his ankle. Even greyer than Gow's hair the South Yorkshire spring skyline. Bob Hazell getting the racist stuff. Peter Hooker (sic) nearly put down by the local vet. Steve Burke going in goal. The game descending into a brawl worthy of Get Carter. And all throughout the sound of a drunken klaxon though it could've been the afternoon shift at the local colliery clocking off. Took my mind of a bank holiday hangover for half an hour. Fascinating. And I never realised the similarity between Derek Dougan and Feargal Sharkey.
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today the big one on 16:19 - May 28 with 3605 views
Thank-you CamberleyR what a YouTube discovery! Absolutely flabbergasted by those 35 minute infamous Battle of Millmoor March 27th 1982 highlights - so much incident! - 3 Sendings off 6 bookings Goalkeeper Peter Hucker kicked in the throat, shyte incompetent camerawork totally misses it <d'oh!> Hucker hospitalised, 14 minutes of injury time, ineffective Referee Alan Banks lost control and ran away to the dressing room when he blew time.
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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today the big one on 18:09 - May 28 with 3496 views
Great vid. Some of those tackles were hilarious. Some brilliant football being played as well. That was the team i first started supporting as a lad. Cheers CamberleyR
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today the big one on 19:10 - May 28 with 3452 views
Hooked on these now. This one's very enjoyable viewing.
Emlyn Hughes in 1983 is getting a Rotherham team playing attractive attacking football. That Townley bloke is amazing. Going down the left and the right wings. I don't remember him at all. I wonder what happened to Crazy Horse's managerial career. Did he just sell his soul to Question of Sport.
Look away now if you don't want to know the score.
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today the big one on 19:26 - May 28 with 3437 views
today the big one on 19:10 - May 28 by DannyPaddox
Hooked on these now. This one's very enjoyable viewing.
Emlyn Hughes in 1983 is getting a Rotherham team playing attractive attacking football. That Townley bloke is amazing. Going down the left and the right wings. I don't remember him at all. I wonder what happened to Crazy Horse's managerial career. Did he just sell his soul to Question of Sport.
Look away now if you don't want to know the score.
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The season after they over achieved and flirted with promotion in 1981/82, they reverted to type and struggled eventually getting relegated. A 4-0 tonking at Loftus Road in March when we were cruising to the title did for the squeaky voiced one and he was sacked two days later, never to return to football management.
The season after they over achieved and flirted with promotion in 1981/82, they reverted to type and struggled eventually getting relegated. A 4-0 tonking at Loftus Road in March when we were cruising to the title did for the squeaky voiced one and he was sacked two days later, never to return to football management.
That much is True. We have an impression that sacking managers of relegation-troubled teams is a modern phenomenon and there it is happening in 83. Rotherham still went down. Hughes went on to play for Melchester Rovers along side the Kemp brothers of Spandau Ballet. Waaat!?
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today the big one on 21:51 - May 28 with 3328 views
Great vid. Some of those tackles were hilarious. Some brilliant football being played as well. That was the team i first started supporting as a lad. Cheers CamberleyR
What was it like supporting Rotherham at a south west London school, Norman?
today the big one on 21:20 - May 28 by DannyPaddox
That much is True. We have an impression that sacking managers of relegation-troubled teams is a modern phenomenon and there it is happening in 83. Rotherham still went down. Hughes went on to play for Melchester Rovers along side the Kemp brothers of Spandau Ballet. Waaat!?
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I actually have that copy at of Roy of the Rovers in my mums loft , I also have the one when Melchester rovers were ambushed by terrorist's on their bus wiping out half the team
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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today the big one on 11:31 - May 29 with 3113 views
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