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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Darren on June 20, 2007, 06:37:31 PM
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Don't know who's done it but well done. Better with speakers on
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2013789917
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What a magnificent montage of great Alty moments!
Superb stuff.
Marvellous to see the likes of the great Joe Pritchard, Gerry Casey and John Owens (with very long hair!) in those early photographs.
Would the very first photographs be from the FA Cup tie against Hartlepool at Moss Lane on 24th November 1973?
Ah.....the memories!
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I found that Nostalga one quite sad really. Just take a look in the stands and look at the crowds. Take a look at the crowds these days.
I know we are comparing some memorable games but even so look at the crowds we get in the FA Cup these days, it is nothing like it used to be.
Do I sound like my Grandad?
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Would the very first photographs be from the FA Cup tie against Hartlepool at Moss Lane on 24th November 1973?
Ah.....the memories!
Posted on: Yesterday at 06:37:31 pmPosted by: Darren
I seem to recall that at that match there were some Hartlepool thugs walking round the ground causing bother, one being dressed as if he was an extra from "Clockwork Orange" until some old dear decided to take him on and attack him with here brolly, it was hilarious to see this yob beat a hasty retreat under a rain of blows from a woolies brolly. :D
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Guilty...that was my work..put it briefly onto star site.
Don't know who nicked it and put it on their myspace though.
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It is on the alty myspace as well i think.
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Guilty...that was my work..put it briefly onto star site.
Don't know who nicked it and put it on their myspace though.
Any chance of a list of images?, i know it's a montage and all that. I can see it seems to run in chronological order and recognise some games Oreient at Home etc. Jezza?
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brilliant
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Guilty...that was my work..put it briefly onto star site.
Don't know who nicked it and put it on their myspace though.
that would be me. i run the alty myspace and i loved your video so apologies for stealing it but i wanted to share it with the world.
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OK Here goes;-
1. Hartlepool 73-4 FACup 1st Rd - great shot of their keeper as Andy Windsor scores the second (and a very blurred young JTH underneath the Pendlebury's sign his tip top blue AFC tracksuit)
2. Blackburn 73-4 FA Cup 2nd Rd replay - ah the parkas, KO was 2pm midweek becuase of the 3 day week - Life On Mars eat your heart out
3. Gateshead United (prev known as South Shields) 74-5 FA Cup 2nd Rd
4. Everton 74-5 FA Cup 3rd Rd replay - opening shot of Cotes' backpass (ahem) going straight to Bob Latchford. Alty got more than Utd at Old Trafford a day after they had played Walsall!
5. Spurs 78-9 FA Cup 3rd Rd Replay - Maine Rd
6. Crewe 79-80 FA Cup 2nd Rd - Barry Whitbread makes it 2-0 - over 5,000 at Moss Lane
7. Orient 79-80 FA Cup 3rd Rd Home, Whitbread opens the scoring in front of 7,800 odd - Jeff Johnson gets his orders in the replay at Brisbane Road
8. SC**thorpe 80-1 FA Cup 2nd Rd Replay - Kingy puts them on the line for the cause, pen from JD giviing us a 1-0 win and a trip to:
9. Liverpool 80-1 FA Cup 3rd Rd and a great view of Heathcote sending Clemence the wrong way from the spot in fron of the Kop.
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Hang my head in shame - I think its SC**thorpe 74-5 FA Cup 1st Rd Replay, not Gateshead Utd in the 2nd Rd
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Brilliant stuff.
Thought it was the Crewe game in 79 - 80.
I still have the paper cuttings somewhere.
I'm one of the two kids sat on the ledge where the advertising hoarding should be.
Oh happy days.
Incredible to see that many people in ML.
Also recall a cup replay against Sheffield United where the ground was packed.
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Its fantastic, well done Jezza.
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Chest swells with pride!
However, to correct JTH, I'm not sure Jeff was sent off at Brisbane Road: he was sent off at Moss Lane.
As a result of this, we played our CSC match at Macc on the Tuesday so that Jeff could serve his automatic one match ban. Macc tannoy announcer "Altrincham have made 11 changes to the programme" Chorus of boos from crowd. Alty drew 1-1, won replay 3-0 and survived a protest to the Cheshire FA from Macc for playing a weakened team on the grounds that we won, didn't we?
Jeff pulled us back in the game at Orient by scoring to make it 1-2 in the last 10 minutes after a disappointing Alty performance. This reminded me strongly at the time of Jeff's 86 th minute goal at Doncaster in the trophy semi final second replay against Scarborough (RIP).
I remember telling every United and City fan I met after Orient that we had survived longer in the cup that season than they had: we were knocked out on Wednesday, whereas both United and City lost in replays on the Tuesday. Orient went on to lose 2-3 at home to West Ham in the fourth round.
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Damn and blast - thats what a packed chequers end terrace full of Alty fans does for you......
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The Macclesfield Cheshire Senior Cup tie was played on the Monday, 48 hours before our visit to Brisbane Road.Our equaliser was a brilliant curling shot from ???????
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I remember the Macc scorer was Birtles (og)...but without driving home and checking the programme in my garage I can't remember who scored for Alty.
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Here's the match report from The Altrincham Guardian:
Makeshift Robins Held
Macclesfield Town...1 Altrincham...1
An "experimental" Altrincham line-up was held to a draw in the first round of the Cheshire Senior Cup at Macclesfield on Monday night, after Phil Wilson had levelled the score with a superb equaliser.
The former Runcorn star crashed the ball in from well outside the area with a shot which bent round ex-Robins keeper Mike Sherlock in the 51st minute.
The shot cancelled out an own goal by Birtles only sixty seconds earlier, when the young back four player deflected a shot by Paul Marsden.
But the makeshift Robins side could well have gone on to win the tie in the final half hour.
Brian LeBoutillier sent Jeff Johnson's brother Craig** through with only the keeper to beat but he shot over from close range. And then in the final minute, LeBoutillier missed a golden opportunity to clinch the tie when he had only Sherlock to beat but saw his shot well saved.
Goalkeeper Billy Phillips became the first American to play in the Senior Cup and Ivan Crossley had a fine game in defence for the Robins.
But the good news for Robins was that striker Jeff Johnson, sent off in Saturday's cup tie against Orient, served his automatic one match ban, which meant he was eligible for the replay at Brisbane Road last night (Wednesday).
Altrincham team:
1. Billy Phillips
2. Ivan Crossley
3. Mickey Brooke
4. Steve Birtles
5. Graham Tobin
6. Dave Kelly
7. Graham Heathcote
8. Phil Wilson
9. Brian LeBoutillier
10. Stan Pearson
11. Craig Johnson.
Sub: Steve Thompson (for Heathcote in 30th minute)
** Is this correct? Was Craig Johnson another of Jeff Johnson's brothers?
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I can see it now...curling around 3 or 4 Macc defenders and inside the far post.If I remember correctly Wilson two other goals for Alty against Crewe in the FA Cup & Nuneaton in the Alliance (Alex Stepney's debut).
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I didn't know that criag johnson was jeff's brother - this means that three brothers from the johnson fasmily played for us - Steve johnson also played a couple (at least 1 - away Morecambe) of games for us at the end of the 78-79 season.
The programme for the macc game says "We must apologise for the confusion caused regarding the date of this game. At 5pm on saturday Altrincham requested this game be played despite their replay with orient on wednesday and we have tried to fall i with their wisjhes despite the very obvious difficulty in obtaining sufficient publicity to counteract the announcement that the game would be played next week ...the result is more important to us than to our visitors we look forward to our progress to the next round@
Attendance: 755