I was living in Paris at the time - every Monday morning I had to walk about a kilometer from my office to a newsagents where with trembling hands, I'd turn to the sports pages...
By this time I'd begun to BELIEVE that we might do something - the Monday before the Merthr game, I discovered a match report in the Daily Telegraph of our 3-2 win that Saturday against Kettering (McKenna 90). I bought the paper for 30 FF (normally I just quickly scanned the results). Kettering haad been unbeaten to Christmas and were about 20 points clear...
On the Thursday morning (it took a day to get the papers in those days), as I once more trekked up to La Grande Arche de la Defense, opened the paper with trembling hands... and dropped it on the floor where the wind picked it up and blew it into about 5 seperate pieces. Another 30 francs spent...
Well, I thought, I wish we'd kept a few goals up our sleeves for Boston away on Saturday...
Internet makes life too easy.