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Please can we get off Liam's case once and for all.
The lad had made his decision at this moment in time to join another club so lets just respect it.
I dont recall either Liam or Alty "shutting the door and bolting it permanently" which is what some "fans" on this forum are intent on doing.
Unfortunately Alty's history isnt that of a local team with local heros.
I can reall many Alty lads that were good footballers but didnt get past trials for the Robins, when the first team squad was full of Scousers (I am
referring to days when we didnt have either a Youth Team or Reserve side).
Liam is an Alty lad and I wish him the best.

Graham Barrow was intervied on the Radio on Wednesday, I think on Southern Counties Radio. When Manager at Bury, he gave Colin Kazim-Richards his first game of League Football, the Striker seen playing for Turkey in Euro 2008, .

I drove up from Redhill for the FA Cup tie against Millwall. I parked on Acacia Avenue which is off Moss Lane and faces the entrance to the Golf Road End. There was plenty of parking along Acacia Avenue and that was for our biggest gate of the season.

I dont remember a full coach load of Sunderland fans being at an Alty match, but it is possible.
There was a faimily from Sunderland that lived at the top of top of Sandileigh Avenue right opposite the ground, called Robison, there were 6 or 8 kids. They came to Alty in the late 1960's. The three eldest lads reamained Sunderland fanatics. Derek, use to sell programmes with me outside the main stand at Moss Lane in the early 1970's. In the early 70's Sunderland were in the old second division, until they got Promotion under Bob Stokoe.  In the late 1970's the Robisons had a lot of relatives that came down for local matches. I remember quite a few of them being in the Moss Hotel one weekend. Bob Stokoe was famed for winning the FA Cup for Sunderland while they were still in the second division in 1973 - and infamous for being the Rochdale Manager when we were cheated out of a League place in 1980.

Living in Redhill my nearest is Crawley. then Woking so Lewes and Eastboune are not much further

We got no sympathy at all from Halifax fans in 1981 when they avoided relegation from the old Division 4 at our expence through a sytem that was unjust and undemocratic.
All we are doing now is accepting a situation to our advantage, we are doing nothing wrong, like we they did nothing wrong in 1981 when were Champions but were not promoted.
The only difference is that Halifax's current situation is their own fault not ours, but in 1980 and 1980 we were dealt the short straw through no fault of our own.

I also remember going there on a Saturday afternoon in the 70's - the day United played a home friendly against Glasgow Rangers.
When we left Moss Lane it was a nice Sunny Day and no coats needed.
When we got to Buxton I have never been so cold. It was cold, windy and a snow blizzard - many Alty fans didnt leave the bar it was so cold.
I think we won that match.