| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... 13:37 - May 11 with 2547 views | theloneranger |
The rest is history ...
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| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 20:41 - May 13 with 535 views | JBT95 |
| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 15:32 - May 13 by sherpajacob |
at the time there was no requirement for everyone to finish their season on the same day. Teams would often have rearranged fixtures still to play and would play them in the week before or even after the FA Cup final.
The scheduled season would have finished the Saturday before.(The famous Plymouth away MOTD)
This fixture and the Wednesday v swindon match would have been rearranged from earlier in the season, postponed due to weather or cup clashes. This was common practise I think our Bristol city relegation match in 85 was the same. Played the Friday before the FA Cup final.
I may be wrong but I think swindon still had another fixture to play, hence I don't think people were glued to the transistor radio for their score. I do recall as a 11 year old explaining to my mums friend the permutations beforehand, of which there were many also involving other clubs, the simplest of which was; we win and Swindon lose we're up.
It was later changed so that everyone had to finish on the same day, after Coventry played about 3 games after the cup final, they need to win them all and did, mainly because the opposition were playing in swimming trunks and sandals. [Post edited 13 May 2020 15:54]
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Thanks for that detailed insight. |  | | |
| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 22:08 - May 13 with 507 views | Garyjack |
| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 15:52 - May 13 by sherpajacob |
Further to above, its quite remarkable (in David Coleman accent) our promotion was confirmed that night as several teams still had other matches left to play
using this superb website:-
https://www.11v11.com/teams/sw
Swindon still another game left, which they lost, but because they lost at Wednesday they now couldn't catch us
Gillingham had 2 games left and won both, but because we won, they couldn't catch us.
Watford had one game left which they won to go above us into 2nd
Shrewsbury had one game left which they won to go top, above us and Watford.
if we hadn't beaten Chesterfield, we would have been sweating all the following week on the other teams results, hoping for slip ups from either Shrewsbury, Watford or Gillingham, none of them did. [Post edited 13 May 2020 15:55]
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It was nothing short of a miracle how we came through those final 3 games with the outcomes we achieved. In our previous home game we were 1-2 down versus Southend with 10 mins left yet won 3-2, we drew 2-2 at Plymouth after coming from behind twice, and then that goal from Tosh in front of a bigger crowd than we've ever had at the Liberty.
On the downside, the attendance that night was only bettered 4 times in our two season stint in the top flight, and that was our downfall. Nothing to do with an ageing squad, quite simply the Swansea public did not support what the club had achieved. |  | | |
| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 10:21 - May 14 with 452 views | Highjack |
That defender doesn’t half look like John Hollins. |  |
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| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 17:29 - May 14 with 399 views | sherpajacob |
There is a good fans view write up of the match in this book, as well as some other very good stories from other clubs.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Fa |  |
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| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 18:10 - May 14 with 385 views | theloneranger |
| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 22:08 - May 13 by Garyjack |
It was nothing short of a miracle how we came through those final 3 games with the outcomes we achieved. In our previous home game we were 1-2 down versus Southend with 10 mins left yet won 3-2, we drew 2-2 at Plymouth after coming from behind twice, and then that goal from Tosh in front of a bigger crowd than we've ever had at the Liberty.
On the downside, the attendance that night was only bettered 4 times in our two season stint in the top flight, and that was our downfall. Nothing to do with an ageing squad, quite simply the Swansea public did not support what the club had achieved. |
Without that Tosh winning goal (Only 2 points for a win then) ... Gillingham would have been promoted instead of us on goal difference. (+2). | |
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| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 21:33 - May 14 with 365 views | sherpajacob |
| 41 Years Ago Tonight .... Tosh Did This ... on 18:10 - May 14 by theloneranger |
Without that Tosh winning goal (Only 2 points for a win then) ... Gillingham would have been promoted instead of us on goal difference. (+2). |
indeed,
but they played and won their last 2 games after we had finished, so with no pressure on them, knowing it made no difference.
Had we drawn the pressure on them would have been much different knowing they couldn't afford to drop a point. | |
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