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Eastleigh are very strong at home (played: 19; won: 13; drawn: three and lost: three), where they have accumulated 42 points out of their current total of 60.

They have a habit of winning 1-0.

Micky Moore missed a penalty in that first replay back in 1977, which was played at the home of Rotherham United.

Excerpt from my When We Were Kings: Alty in the APL 1979/80 series of articles for the Robins Review:


"Precisely five months on from that debacle, Millmoor was the neutral ground selected to stage the FA Trophy Semi-Final First Replay between Alty and Scarborough on Wednesday, 20th April 1977 and once again it proved to be the scene of considerable torment and heartache for all those Robins fans present amongst the gate of 2,597.

The illustrious reward for the victors was a place in the FA Trophy Final against Dagenham at Wembley Stadium and a golden opportunity to clinch this prize was proffered to the Robins in the 74th minute, when the referee, Trelford Mills of Barnsley, awarded them a penalty for a push on their left winger John Vernon.

The responsibility for converting the penalty fell on the shoulders of Micky Moore, who had in fact scored via a twice-taken penalty during Alty’s 2-0 triumph in the preceding Saturday’s Semi-Final Second Leg at Moss Lane. Moore’s spot kick successfully sent the Scarborough goalkeeper, Dave Chapman, the wrong way, however, the ball agonisingly clipped the foot of a post and was deflected wide and out of play. The Robins’ despair was compounded still further in the dying seconds of the thirty minutes of extra-time, when Mickey Brooke’s fierce 30-yard drive struck the crossbar.

Merely five days later and after 420 minutes of a truly epic struggle, Alty’s dreams of reaching Wembley were ultimately extinguished in the Second Replay at Doncaster Rovers’ Belle Vue stadium in front of a crowd of 3,761. First half goals from Billy Ayre and John Woodall put Scarborough in control and Jeff Johnson’s 83rd minute headed goal proved to be nothing more than a token consolation for the Robins."

A highly enjoyable and unexpectedly comfortable afternoon (although you just knew that we wouldn't keep a clean sheet!).

I thought that the midfield trio of Oyedele, Marriott and Lundstram were all outstanding.

The game rather passed Hugill by on his debut. Incidentally, have we ever fielded someone with a higher squad number than 39?!

Marvellous atmosphere in the Alty section.

That declared away attendance figure of 663 looks somewhat underreported to me though. 

You've probably upset Jordan Hulme by doing so (!) but many thanks for resurrecting this forum.

It was all looking worryingly ominous after about 20 minutes. 1-0 down, almost inevitably via a free header from Dackers (with whom we had been linked when he was on loan at Southend earlier this season), and with the team looking rather disjointed at that juncture.

Thankfully, we began to create a few openings and were somewhat gifted a penalty by means of an irresponsible challenge by their defender.

Much better performance in the second half and high-flying Woking were made to look rather ordinary and one-dimensional.

Marriott was superb in midfield, yet again.

Linney appears to be a very promising addition.

Alas, I'm not convinced at all by the lightweight Cashman. The game seems to just pass him by.

A huge sigh of relief after such an unexpected outcome. Plus dear old floundering Rochdale lost again, which always gladdens my bitter heart.

It sounds like Bromley had a few issues. Hope that their player is now OK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWdW2O0Q258

An obituary has now been published on the Wigan Athletic club website.

As some of us had suspected (!), he was almost three years older than his official profile in the pen pictures of match programmes.

One error: he had been playing for Kirkby Town for at least a couple of seasons prior to his first appearance at Moss Lane on New Year's Day 1971:


https://wiganathletic.com/news/2023/february/09/obituary-johnny-king-1947-2023-/