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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

These statistics were requested by Ballers in the Noel White Suite the other week.....and his word is my command.

2nd February 1991: Alty 3  Gateshead 1 (FA Trophy)

24th September 1991: Alty 1  Gateshead 1 (GMVC)


Alas, a hellish sequence of nine consecutive defeats then commences....

(i) 28th December 1991: Gateshead 4  Alty 0 (GMVC)

(ii) 25th August 1992: Alty 0  Gateshead 1 (GMVC)

(iii) 16th September 1992: Gateshead 2  Alty 0 (GMVC)

(iv) 7th September 1993: Alty 1  Gateshead 3 (Bob Lord Trophy 1st Round 1st Leg)

(v) 22nd September 1993: Gateshead 3  Alty 1 (Bob Lord Trophy 1st Round 2nd Leg)

(vi) 27th November 1993: Alty 0  Gateshead 3 (GMVC)

(vii) 2nd February 1994: Gateshead 2  Alty 1 (GMVC)

(viii) 6th September 1994: Alty 1  Gateshead 3 (GMVC)

(ix) 7th December 1994: Gateshead 1  Alty 0 (GMVC)

(Just how many of those Gateshead goals were scored by either Paul Dobson or Alan Lamb....?!).


The losing run is finally broken:

28th August 1995: Alty 1  Gateshead 1 (GMVC).


And then an overdue victory ensues:

27th March 1996: Gateshead 2  Alty 3 (GMVC).

Since then, by my calculations, we have played Gateshead on 12 occasions, winning eight games; drawing twice and losing a couple of matches. 

[Ballers]

It doesn't look that bad in print. What those who didn't live through it won't understand is that it didn't matter how good or bad our team was, we just always lost! And the sheer hopelessness and desolateness of the away games (Ecky!). Didn't Paul Rowlands make a rather audacious transfer bid for Paul Dobson?

[ManagementGuru]

For me the absolute nightmare Gateshead clash was this one:

NPL 1977-78 Gateshead 5 Altrincham 1.

I remember ringing the Gateshead ground (there was no coach an it was a midweek game) and when told the score, replied "To Altrincham?" before hanging up in a daze.

It came hard on the heels of a 2-1 defeat at Netherfield the previous Tuesday that I had been at- now there was a bogey ground.

And as for the 3-2 win in 1995/6, it was one of five matches I managed to get to that season (I deliberately planned to be working in Darlington that week) - we were 2-0 down after 15 minutes before goals from Paul France, Stuart Terry and Niell Hardy earned an unlikely three points for the Robins.

My only other visit to Gateshead International Athletics Stadium was for a 3-0 win on a Thursday night in May 1979 - at kick off Jim Callaghan was Prime Minister and by the time we got back to Altrincham it was certain that Maggie Thatcher had won the election!

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

It doesn't look that bad in print. What those who didn't live through it won't understand is that it didn't matter how good or bad our team was, we just always lost! And the sheer hopelessness and desolateness of the away games (Ecky!).
Didn't Paul Rowlands make a rather audacious transfer bid for Paul Dobson?

Indeed he did.

Almost immediately after we had lost this match:

2nd February 1994: Gateshead 2  Alty 1 (GMVC)

[Ballers]

Paul Dobson, one of a number of conference players who would've been worth the transfer fee purely to stop him always scoring against us no matter what his subsequent strike rate would be in an Alty shirt.

In recent years, this also included D.Clare and G.Madjo. Any others you can think of?

Edit: and John Askey (67)

and Steve Hanlon (88)

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

Paul Dobson, one of a number of conference players who would've been worth the transfer fee purely to stop him always scoring against us no matter what his subsequent strike rate would be in an Alty shirt.

In recent years, this also included D.Clare and G.Madjo. Any others you can think of?

Edit: and John Askey (67)

and Steve Hanlon (88)

A certain Mr Carl Alford also belongs on that list.