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[Narcissist]

Also, just out of interest (who's sad?) while I've got the programme from the 1996-97 season in front of me. The memory plays tricks sometimes with reagrds to how things used to be.

Our top 5 home attendances during the 1996-97 season

3,063 v Crewe Alex FA Cup 1st rd - 0-2 - 21/11/95
1,648 v Macc - 0-4 - 18/11/95
1,085 v Halifax - 3-0 - 23/09/95
1,076 v Vics - 3-4 - 1/1/96
1,057 v Bath City - 1-2 - 7/10/95

Our only attendances above 1000 in fact. Lowest league atts 580 v Farnborough 2-2 Tue 24 feb 96, 608 v Stalybridge 1-0 Tu 23 Apr 96 and 633 v Telford 1-0 Sat 16 Dec 95.

Average 852.

About 200 per game better now, couldn't imagine we'd get less than 1,700 against Macc and pretty certain we'll get more than 1,076 when we play Vics on New Years Day.

Alty v Vics games not as well attended through the 80's and 90's as you'd think actually.

That Stalybridge game was live on TV......but which channel

A pint of Jenny Heslop's finest on Sunday for the first correct answer

Seeing as nobody appears to have replied was it not L!ve TV, the cable channel.

As well as conference football I seem to remember it also produced some of the greatest viewing of that era including Topless Darts, Norwegian Weather and Tiffany's big city tips!

You might have to put the pint on hold until Crawley away.

[RedhillAlty]

Home to Mossley 3-3 draw in 1963. Sat in the main stand and the entrance fee for kids was one shilling. Freddie Pye was Manager.
Golf Road End was uncovered in those days.
I am sure our striker then was Johnny Mitten and that I am not confusing him with "the Bogata Bandit" (Charlie Mitten former Alty Player-Manager). One day I will climb in my loft and sift through my programmes. There was also a John Mitten, born in Davyhulme,  who played cricket for England around the same time. There are a lot of Alty connections with the Mitten family.
First away game a 4-1 thumping of Vics in about 1965

[York Alty]

Scarborough - very late 1980s.  It was the game before the Orient cup game. Tickets were on sale after the scabby match from the various tea bars around the ground.  Stood on the chequers end.

I dread to think how much cash I've spent over the years, but Alty have given me some of the best moments of my life, and none of the worst. I am an addict.

COME ON ALTY.

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Scarborough - very late 1980s.  It was the game before the Orient cup game. Tickets were on sale after the scabby match from the various tea bars around the ground.  Stood on the chequers end.

I dread to think how much cash I've spent over the years, but Alty have given me some of the best moments of my life, and none of the worst. I am an addict.

COME ON ALTY.

York Alty,

That was Boxing Day in 1979.
Alty 2 Scarborough 0.

[JTH]

Yep, the first a ricochet off Jeff Johnson's nadgers and then a tap in from Barry Whitbread.

[thegazelle]

first was either runcorn 5-1 or vics 8-1 ive got them mixed up but it would be 1968. went onmy own thinking it was alty when we first moved from blackpool to alty and it was actiually northern nomads v irlam? in a local cup final . but persevered and my first game on my own was 4-4 draw against macc in the npl equivalant of the charity shield 9 maybe 1970). all could be a right load of bowlarks as my memory is fuddled

[Brian Flynn]

Also, just out of interest (who's sad?) while I've got the programme from the 1996-97 season in front of me. The memory plays tricks sometimes with reagrds to how things used to be.

Our top 5 home attendances during the 1996-97 season

3,063 v Crewe Alex FA Cup 1st rd - 0-2 - 21/11/95
1,648 v Macc - 0-4 - 18/11/95
1,085 v Halifax - 3-0 - 23/09/95
1,076 v Vics - 3-4 - 1/1/96
1,057 v Bath City - 1-2 - 7/10/95

Our only attendances above 1000 in fact. Lowest league atts 580 v Farnborough 2-2 Tue 24 feb 96, 608 v Stalybridge 1-0 Tu 23 Apr 96 and 633 v Telford 1-0 Sat 16 Dec 95.

Average 852.

About 200 per game better now, couldn't imagine we'd get less than 1,700 against Macc and pretty certain we'll get more than 1,076 when we play Vics on New Years Day.

Alty v Vics games not as well attended through the 80's and 90's as you'd think actually.

That Stalybridge game was live on TV......but which channel

A pint of Jenny Heslop's finest on Sunday for the first correct answer

Seeing as nobody appears to have replied was it not L!ve TV, the cable channel.

As well as conference football I seem to remember it also produced some of the greatest viewing of that era including Topless Darts, Norwegian Weather and Tiffany's big city tips!

You might have to put the pint on hold until Crawley away.

You are spot on...........funnily enough I had forgotten about the Topless Darts but I do remember Tiffany's Big City Tips!!

Crawley away it is then...a pint of your favourite nectar available on request!

[jiminlondon]

a tap in from Barry Whitbread.

tautology or oxymoron?

[Ballers]

I dread to think how much cash I've spent over the years, but Alty have given me some of the best moments of my life, and none of the worst. I am an addict.

As discussed with Jacobs on Monday, Do not, do not under any circumstancesstart trying to think how much money you have spent on Alty. Do not even try to calculate what you have spent this year.

It will a) make you cry b) realise you can't afford it and c) make you think about doing something else.

A bad idea.

[thegazelle]

class james class. going to start a new game