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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Alex on January 25, 2008, 11:13:56 AM
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just a question a few of us were having the other day and thought i'd gather more opinions, "what is the biggest game in altrincham fc history?" basically interms of significance.
i've only been watching alty for 4 years or so, so i don't rele feel i can voice an opinion but i am interested to hear other peoples views.
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just a question a few of us were having the other day and thought i'd gather more opinions, "what is the biggest game in altrincham fc history?" basically interms of significance.
i've only been watching alty for 4 years or so, so i don't rele feel i can voice an opinion but i am interested to hear other peoples views.
My first big game was V Wigan in the FA Cup 2nd round (I think??) I was just a wee nipper and remember Chris Sharratt maurading down the wing!!
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In the FA Cup has to be Knocking Birmingham city out of the 3rd round. They were in division1 which was the 'Premier league ' of that area.
Winning the FA trophy at Wembley in 1978 - What a super game we played that day Johnson, Rogers and Kingy sending us to victory.
Winning the innaugral Conference (alliance premier league) was an awesome achievement. We should have been promoted that season!
Them were the days! ;D
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In terms of importance and where we are today the final Unibond game v Runcorn that assured us of Conf North football is very significant in modern times. What would've happened if we missed the cut that day, I shudder to think.
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Crazy question, but a good one. I think this one is down to personal opinion, each to their own and all that.
For me it was Eastbourne at the Brittania. There were quite a few painful memories of the past decade for alty and that win put a silver lining on all of them for me and quite a few others. We've not looked back since really, and the recent moans and groans we've had really put into perspective how far we've come compared to the moans and groans of a decade ago.
Im bubbling up just thinking about it!
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Having been to all the big cup / trophy games the BIGGEST game was 1-0 Runcorn to secure Conf North status - we could still be in the Uinbond if it wasn't for that win...
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Having been to all the big cup / trophy games the BIGGEST game was 1-0 Runcorn to secure Conf North status - we could still be in the Uinbond if it wasn't for that win...
On the flip side though, how about Slough Town away in 1991?
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You're not allowed to mention Slough Town away on the Tuesday night.
Runcorn and Eastbourne are the two biggies for me...and the kidderminster match when we needed a win to stay up and drew 0-0.
Surprised no-one has mentioned Tottenham in 1995 though. That was massive as well.
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Kettering 3-2 aet was a classic with Vals goal off both posts, cue a shower of beer :-)
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How about away at BPA in April in the Conf north. Val & Rod's late, late goals made me think that maybe we could do it.....
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No question. Liverpool in 1981. Liverpool at the height of their powers. Altrincham the top non-league team in the country.
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best ............. probably trophy final 78
most important..... runcorn to get in conf north
worst............ colne in the trophy but felt abit like that on boxing day
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Gazelle..was Colne worse than Tow Law Town?
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i was at all those fa cup, trophy and alliance premier league games, but the runcorn match and the eastbourne match are the most significant. not the best games or the biggest games, but the ones which changed the destiny of the club
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Eastbourne was a big game but I thought we always had a chance so perhaps the game against nuneaton or the fantastic game against kettering with the own goal counts more for me.
Again the runcorn game was a bit bizzare as they qualified as well.
So kettering BSN playoff final.
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colne was worse for the reason the players didnt look like they gave a sh*te, i dont think i went to the FA cup game at towlaw so probably wasnt as hurt because i didnt witness it.
i did i think go to Tow Law for a trophy game . all i recall is that it was the coldest i have ever been i swear their keeper kicked the ball and it blew behind him for a corner, if it was like that for the FA cup game then i was probably numb with cold and didnt feel de feet (as we say in Ghana). I was so cold i blagged my way into the directors box for the second half much the confusion of our directors who were too polite to have me evicted. great corned beef hash pie at half time in the board room. i am too shy to do things like that these days. i suppose i got my payback when the alty directors asked me to leave the board room at weymouth (new ground) only to find i was quite legitimately there as a guest of the weymouth chairman (so stick that up yer arse gerry).
anyone any stories on boardroom /sponsor/ground crashing
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For me biggest game was Tottenham in the FA Cup. The best has to be beating Barnet 4-1 to go top of the league in 91. It was great to think we were going to win the conference (whilst it lasted).
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For me
Biggest in terms of highest profile would be the Liverpool game - best team in the world at the time
Biggest as in best achievement - Birmingham were a very poor side strugling at the bottom of the 1st division (a great win none the less) but the draws at Everton and Tottenham were, for me, greater achievements.
Most important - without doubt the win against Runcorn to qualify for the conf North, but I agree that the wins against Nuneaton and Kettering in the play-offs were more important than the Eastborne final.
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For me biggest game was Tottenham in the FA Cup. The best has to be beating Barnet 4-1 to go top of the league in 91. It was great to think we were going to win the conference (whilst it lasted).
Agree the Barnet game for me has to up there along with leatherhead at Wembly. Still dreaming of the 4th division at half time at Stafford 1 - 0 up just needed to win and we were there iirc Then it all went T**s up. Oh well Ce La Vie
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I remember my biggest games in 3 different periods, in the last Kingy years its got to be Tottenham. Under Bernard it has to be that great night at Saltergate in the Unbond Challenge Cup, I remember the post match scenes vividly and winning that night set us on a magical fairytale ride under Bernard before it went belly up. The Kidderminster is also big in the memory. Under GH it is the runcorn game that set his era alight and of course the nuneaton and Kettering matches.
My worst game has to be the trophy defeat away to North Ferriby United, or the what seems like numerous defeats away to Winsford on freezing Tuesday nights.
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The night at Chesterfield was one to savour. It may he only been the Unibond Cup but it was the first thing we had won for 13 years and didn't we celebrate!
The sight of Bernard sprinting across the pitch with the cup in his bubble jacket was just brilliant.
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The night at Chesterfield was one to savour. It may he only been the Unibond Cup but it was the first thing we had won for 13 years and didn't we celebrate!
The sight of Bernard sprinting across the pitch with the cup in his bubble jacket was just brilliant.
He had the cup in his bubble jacket or Bernard was wearing a bubble jacket? ;D
I was gutted to miss that one as I had just torn my ankle ligaments playing football and was in excruciating pain.
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Having been to all the big cup / trophy games the BIGGEST game was 1-0 Runcorn to secure Conf North status - we could still be in the Uinbond if it wasn't for that win...
On the flip side though, how about Slough Town away in 1991?
I'll go with that as well.I don't know exactly what happened that night....but whatever it was was well dodgy!
Probably my worst moment in 36 years of supporting Alty.
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anyone any stories on boardroom /sponsor/ground crashing
Yes Gazelle, Aylesbury away, first game of the (i think) 87-88 season, I met up with an old college mate, then a trainee journo for the local press. His boss was covering the game and they got me in to the press box, no admission, free buffet, drinks and the works. I did have to pretend to be from the Pink, but in reality the Pink report was sent by the Aylesbury guy, its just that the copy for the Pink version was drafted by the seriously short of experience me and dictated by him.
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The Pink ! What a paper that was for footy fans. Anyone recall what year they ditched this ? Seems like a lifetime ago ....
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Before the days of t'internet and Jeff Stelling on a Saturday it was a lifesaver on a Saturday night
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How I miss reading about the first 65 minutes of our matches! ::) :D
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Lol. Nonetheless 365 was well impressed how they managed to print it and have it in newsagents for 6.30ish that night. Fair play to them. The number of blokes loitering around newsagents at that time on a Sat was rather amusing
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I remember nipping round to the newsagents after tea on Saturdays to pick up the pink. It had a good non league section in the middle.
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highlight of the week queueing and waiting for the pink in the newsagent oposite the moss.listening to the words of wisdom from big bill and brian sweeney
a journo mate of mine recalls covering lancaster v matlock as a cub reporter for lancs evening post version of the pink the score he had to fit in for thw first half and early second half report lany 0 matlock 10 the scorers were of course 17 different fenoughty brothers his whole report read fenoughty every other word
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Everton - when the draw was made they were top of the old 1st Dision and we were top of the NPL. We scared the living daylights out of them, and should have won not for a rare sitter missed by Johnny Hughes in the second half at 1-0 and a dodgy penalty. However Southern League Wimbledon made the headlines the following day by beating bottom of the 1st division Burnley away 1-0. The downside of the games with Everton was that every team we played that season treated their game with Alty as their Cup Final, this included crap sides like Wigan, who we played the following week in the FA Trophy. As a result of the Cup run that season, although we were favourites to win the NPL, we got involved in the usual end of season fiature pile up and blew it. I still view Wigan as a Non League Club and they should never have got promoted to the Football League ahead of us. I remember us losing 4-1 away to Netherfield that season.
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It's difficult this. I think Flynny had it right when he said that the whole future of the club changed on a Tuesday night in Berkshire. I guess we'll never know, we'd still have had to beat Vics on the THursday and Boston on a Saturday. We were rather lacklustre in those 2 games but I think it was because Slough was where the dream died. I couldn't make the game and only found out the full score. I don't think I could have coped with seeing the lead whittled away. It was the one Alty game I desperately wanted to be at and turned out to be the one I was probably glad I didn't see.
That said, maybe the season turned on Ken McKenna's injury and suspensions and the moment the board decided not to buy Mark Carter. I think Runcorn wanted £40k and I hear that John Maunders said he'd stump up half of it if the rest of the board put the rest in. They didn't and we never quite got the goals. We could also have gone and got Chris Camden I believe who whilst not of the standard of that side could at least have done a job for us.
Again, the biggest games are the ones in hindsight, i.e. RUncorn and as Hughesy says Bradford PA in our promotion season.
For me, there was something about the Kettering game. Once we had won it I felt calm and knew that we'd win at Stoke, not often I say that at all.
I'd like to nominate Dagenham away 2 seasons ago to be honest. It shouldn't count beacause we still had our 18 points deducted so were relegated and also we were repreived for other reasons. But for me that was the night we made a statement. We stayed up on our own backs with a great performance. I guess we'll never know what us finishing up on merit made to important decisions in that summer.
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this thread has got me reminiscing again and started me thinking about the times i was most proud of the performance. leaving out all the obvious trophy wins and spurs/brum/eveton etc
first one that springs to mind was the second rotherham game.
the gazelle will tell you i ended in tears that day. i think the reason was that it was the first time i had seen us not only beat league opposition, but totally deserve it, be the better team by a mile, dominate the whole match and never look in trouble
(see also sheff utd replay)
second is the QF and SF of the trophy in 81/2
the performance at bishops stortford in the replayed QF sticks in my mind as one of those night where we never gave them a sniff. they must have thought they had done the hard part after we only got a late equaliser at moss lane. there were very few alty there that night to see it but anyone who went to the semi at wycombe will know exactly the feeling.
alty were so great that day at wycombe and so dominant (i suppose it was a team in decline but still capable of great days) that i could concentrate solely on survival and not worry about the score
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first one that springs to mind was the second rotherham game.
the gazelle will tell you i ended in tears that day. i think the reason was that it was the first time i had seen us not only beat league opposition, but totally deserve it, be the better team by a mile, dominate the whole match and never look in trouble
(see also sheff utd replay)
My two favourite Alty wins of all time - Rotherham and Sheff Utd. We were awsome at Rotherham - Barry Howards wonder goal and Stepney's penalty save, Kingy barging their keeper into the net and claiming a goal. We out classed Sheff Utd at Moss Lane.
Great memories
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Wolves away in the 60,s
Our first big payday and put AFC on the footballing map.
Wolves then were a big club and had won most things.
I was about 11difficult to remember other than a great experience bit like Havant and W today first one..
We did not fair so well but thousands went.
A great day.
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when i saw the name barry H i thought it was god on the message board . how good was he against sheff utd he tore stuart houston apart
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I think the biggest match..the one which meant the most...thye most memorable.....the biggest day out........... had to be the first time we went to Wembley and returned home victorious...a great game we could enjoy from the 5th minute with the outcome from then never in any doubt.
Seemed to mean so much more first time round...hardly anyone mentions the Runcorn FAT final in such terms?
Most enjoyable? can't pick between Barnet, Birmingham, Rotherham, Everton, Gravesend (again few mentions of our 2nd APL title win which was won with a drab 0-0 at Worcester ande no-one knew until we reached our cars)and the eastbourne celebration of our return to the big time..
The biggest turning point was surely the Runcorn last match in the Unibond.
Had we gone down or stayed up in any other season it nwouldn't have meant that much difference...but if we had not qualified I truelly think oblivion beckoned.
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The games against Wrexham in the 60s which were a turning point for the club and then the 3rd round game at Wolves,all these matches were the points where Alty became A GREAT CLUB
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Only followed alty for about 5 years, so my opinions will be based around the recent alty.
As ballers mentioned before with daghenam, i think aldershot at the end of last season was one of the biggest matches we played, for the sheer dedication of the 11 out there.
Another candidate for this would have to be the milwall game in terms of hype around it.
And maybe, just maybe in april/may we will look back at New Years day and see the turning point of our season, where everything went tits up, and we begun to stage a heroic recovery to mid table safety.
Again, olya personal view as i have not followed alty for long
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Flagger M
Have to agree Barry's run and shot from the edge of the box was out of this world. Stepney was superb. Mal Bailey get the other?
Was any one else on the special train?
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Yes Alty Dave I was on that Special train to Rotherham. I have been reminded about that game a lot recently as I am working with a Barnsley supporter and there was a big gang of Barnsley supporters with us behind that goal that day. I went with an old BTH schoolmate of mine, Tony Deane, a 6'6"" lanky fruitcase of a City supporter from the Grange Estate who went to Alty games where things were likely to kick off on the terraces - he once nearly got me lynched at Wigan when we won one evening in the 1970's. That Barry Howard goal rates as one of the best in Alty history.
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Yes Alty Dave I was on that Special train to Rotherham. I have been reminded about that game a lot recently as I am working with a Barnsley supporter and there was a big gang of Barnsley supporters with us behind that goal that day. I went with an old BTH schoolmate of mine, Tony Deane, a 6'6"" lanky fruitcase of a City supporter from the Grange Estate who went to Alty games where things were likely to kick off on the terraces - he once nearly got me lynched at Wigan when we won one evening in the 1970's. That Barry Howard goal rates as one of the best in Alty history.
did your mate tony have a younger brother , called jonathan ? sadly deceased now.
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I reckon the biggest game was when we beat Rochdale which gave us the game in the next round at Wolves.
3-1 away.It was a fantastic night and for me was the catylist for all the glory days that followed.
Barnet 4-0, Everton 1-1 Spurs 1-1 Rotheram,Sheff utd Blackpool (twice) Leatherhead all great games but that Rochdale game was the beginning.
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I reckon the biggest game was when we beat Rochdale which gave us the game in the next round at Wolves.
3-1 away.It was a fantastic night and for me was the catylist for all the glory days that followed.
Barnet 4-0, Everton 1-1 Spurs 1-1 Rotheram,Sheff utd Blackpool (twice) Leatherhead all great games but that Rochdale game was the beginning.
That was a fast ferry you were Brighton robin a few minutes ago
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Lol I moved to he Island from Brighton and just up dated my profile.
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did your mate tony have a younger brother , called jonathan ? sadly deceased now.
I am not sure. He has a sister called Angela, and I think he has a sibling but a lot younger than both Tony and his sister. Tony will be 51 now. Their Dad came from Derry. They lived just off Hayes Lane.
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did your mate tony have a younger brother , called jonathan ? sadly deceased now.
I am not sure. He has a sister called Angela, and I think he has a sibling but a lot younger than both Tony and his sister. Tony will be 51 now. Their Dad came from Derry. They lived just off Hayes Lane.
I remember Anthony/Tony Dean.
His family lived on Denson Road, which is off Heyes Lane.
Played football against him many a time!
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we were on the special. about 10 of us from ags. i remember what a letdown it was when we drew orient.
funnily i never really felt in danger that day unlike sheff utd when i thought i might die
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did your mate tony have a younger brother , called jonathan ? sadly deceased now.
I am not sure. He has a sister called Angela, and I think he has a sibling but a lot younger than both Tony and his sister. Tony will be 51 now. Their Dad came from Derry. They lived just off Hayes Lane.
pretty sure its the same family , all very tall ,lived off heyes lane and went to st hughs primary
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Flagger M
Have to agree Barry's run and shot from the edge of the box was out of this world. Stepney was superb. Mal Bailey get the other?
Was any one else on the special train?
My one enduring memory of that train journey was Kenny wandering through the carriages around 5.40pm telling all & sundry that "Altrincham have been drawn at home to Leyton Orient".......when they were called just Orient of course!
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Of course there was the popular saying of the time when Alty drew Rotherham...
ROTHERHAM WONT BOTHER 'EM!
Not qute true for the first meeting in '76 (0-5) but totally apt for the 2nd round game we won at Millmoor.
Paul.
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I've been a regular since 89-90 and one of my earliest Alty memories was the infamous 2-1 defeat at Stafford, all those Alty fans heading off down the M6, we must have had 1000 plus at Stafford that day, but not to be, we had such an amzing team that year. 28 league games unbeaten (still the Conference record I think?) and we still didn't go up.
In more recent times, I would have to agree with others, that win against Runcorn, I don't think I've ever been more nervous at an Alty game. The Promotion season, the final itself I wasn't bothered, after Nuneaton and Kettering you kind of just knew we'd do it. That own goal at Kettering will stay with everyone who saw it for a very long time. In the last 2 years of course our biggest sucess have been at the AGM, lets hope our season does actually end with the last league game this season.
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Must say Runcorn for me, and even more symbolic is look at where the two clubs are now ?? I know we both 'scraped' through but that game was MASSIVE. We needed to get in the Conference North or god knows where we'd be now ... Never underestimate how big that game was to Altrincham Football Club
I went to the Play off Final the most confident I have ever been about anything to do with alty so that was never in doubt with me so doesn't count as a game .. Now Kettering and Nunny before it I didn;t think we had a prayer !!
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The 1000 fans at Stafford is often missed. Yes its nothing to York etc but at that time it was amazng for Alty. I remember it being quiet on the M6 and so my cars had Alty scarves in.
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Maybe just as big as the Runcorn game was the previous game,a Tuesday night at home to Worksop.Craney single handedly won that game for us which set up the tensity on that Saturday. I have never been more nervous about a game than that day!!!
Runcorn Boxing Day 1998 was also a big game. I think that was the game when we reliased we could win the league.
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Yes, totally forgot about that Worksop game and if we'd never got a penny for Ian Craney it would have been worth it for that performance alone. He really did win us the game that night.
In fact, in his own little way Craney is worth his due on the influential players thread. I didn't see as much of those dark years as others due to football commitments (now sorted through weight gain) but it seemed at times as if Craney was the only one who won us matches. I certainly think without him we wouldn't have been in a position to even challenge for 13th spot.
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Maybe just as big as the Runcorn game was the previous game,a Tuesday night at home to Worksop.Craney single handedly won that game for us which set up the tensity on that Saturday. I have never been more nervous about a game than that day!!!
Runcorn Boxing Day 1998 was also a big game. I think that was the game when we reliased we could win the league.
Anyone else remember Jamie Baguley's volleyed backpass to Coburn from the halfway line in that game?
I also remember a 2-2 draw away at Blyth in midweek where we came from 2-0 down. Gary Scott played despite not having fully recovered from a broken cheekbone and he was immense.
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Maybe just as big as the Runcorn game was the previous game,a Tuesday night at home to Worksop.Craney single handedly won that game for us which set up the tensity on that Saturday. I have never been more nervous about a game than that day!!!
Runcorn Boxing Day 1998 was also a big game. I think that was the game when we reliased we could win the league.
Anyone else remember Jamie Baguley's volleyed backpass to Coburn from the halfway line in that game?
I still have the occasional nightmare about that incident!
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Maybe just as big as the Runcorn game was the previous game,a Tuesday night at home to Worksop.Craney single handedly won that game for us which set up the tensity on that Saturday. I have never been more nervous about a game than that day!!!
Runcorn Boxing Day 1998 was also a big game. I think that was the game when we reliased we could win the league.
Anyone else remember Jamie Baguley's volleyed backpass to Coburn from the halfway line in that game?
I also remember a 2-2 draw away at Blyth in midweek where we came from 2-0 down. Gary Scott played despite not having fully recovered from a broken cheekbone and he was immense.
I literally couldnt believe my eyes when he did that!
A game that sticks in my memory was Whitby away towards the end of Unibond season and we were both around 14th/15th and trying desperately to get into the top 13. I think we won 3-2 (it was definitely by one goal) and Aspinall scored a pen. Also think an Alty player smacked into the advertising boards early on in the game and was substituted. Anyway, they had a goal cleared off the line in the last minute, only for a photograph to later prove that it may well have been over the line. I can't help but believe that if that goal had been given we may not have made it to the Conf North. Perhaps not as extraordinary as BPA away when we were 1-0 down with 2 mins to go and not really as important as Runcorn but still a crucial game in my opinion.
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I literally couldnt believe my eyes when he did that!
A game that sticks in my memory was Whitby away towards the end of Unibond season and we were both around 14th/15th and trying desperately to get into the top 13. I think we won 3-2 (it was definitely by one goal) and Aspinall scored a pen. Also think an Alty player smacked into the advertising boards early on in the game and was substituted. Anyway, they had a goal cleared off the line in the last minute, only for a photograph to later prove that it may well have been over the line. I can't help but believe that if that goal had been given we may not have made it to the Conf North. Perhaps not as extraordinary as BPA away when we were 1-0 down with 2 mins to go and not really as important as Runcorn but still a crucial game in my opinion.
If I remember it was 3 2 and I believe that the player carried off was Kieren Lugsden.
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I literally couldnt believe my eyes when he did that!
A game that sticks in my memory was Whitby away towards the end of Unibond season and we were both around 14th/15th and trying desperately to get into the top 13. I think we won 3-2 (it was definitely by one goal) and Aspinall scored a pen. Also think an Alty player smacked into the advertising boards early on in the game and was substituted. Anyway, they had a goal cleared off the line in the last minute, only for a photograph to later prove that it may well have been over the line. I can't help but believe that if that goal had been given we may not have made it to the Conf North. Perhaps not as extraordinary as BPA away when we were 1-0 down with 2 mins to go and not really as important as Runcorn but still a crucial game in my opinion.
If I remember it was 3 2 and I believe that the player carried off was Kieren Lugsden.
I thought it may have been Lugsden, before it hit me that he may have been about 12 at the time!
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It was KIERAN LUGSDEN because I accompanied him to hospital in the ambulance. Whilst he was there he gave the best display of projectile vomiting ever seen. Eventually to be sorted with a fractured wrist.
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It was KIERAN LUGSDEN because I accompanied him to hospital in the ambulance. Whilst he was there he gave the best display of projectile vomiting ever seen. Eventually to be sorted with a fractured wrist.
Whoops my apologies to Kieran for spelling his name wrong!
Thanks for confirming the details George.
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ronnie ellis , barry howard's sister and now george all in one week . its getting too much for me
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tottenham game for me, it just felt surreal, klinnsman and co, those were the days they sold alty shirts in the precint allsports
flip side was bishop auckland at moss lane in the fa cup, horses getting punched in the eye and sheperd getting sent off for smacking his old team mate >:(
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I've been a regular since 89-90 and one of my earliest Alty memories was the infamous 2-1 defeat at Stafford, all those Alty fans heading off down the M6, we must have had 1000 plus at Stafford that day, but not to be, we had such an amzing team that year. 28 league games unbeaten (still the Conference record I think?) and we still didn't go up.
IIRC the crowd that day was 2500 and Stafford reckoned there were only 800 -1000 home fans, we took over both sides of their clubhouse and yes the M6 was a sea of red and white what a brilliant sight that was.
Does anyone remember the 2 special trains to Wembly for the Leatherhead final iirc they both stretched right the way round past what is now Tescos, me and my mates nearly missed it on the way back, Scaggys nearly got lifted for giving a woman copper the biggest snog he had ever given (for a 16 year old it took some bottle, or he may have just been pissed) plus we were celebrating at every off licence we could ;D. I also believe that nearly every coach available from the Greater Manchester area headed to to the twin towers that day, i remember when i got back my parents said it was the easiest days shopping they had ever had, Alty was a ghost town
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tottenham game for me, it just felt surreal, klinnsman and co, those were the days they sold alty shirts in the precint allsports
flip side was bishop auckland at moss lane in the fa cup, horses getting punched in the eye and sheperd getting sent off for smacking his old team mate >:(
I don't recall George Shepherd being sent off against Bishop Auckland in that infamous game but he did commit the foul that gave them the penalty which led to them winning 1-0.
The only "smacking" took place after the game outside the Noel White Suite and on Moss Lane as Bishop Auckland were boarding their coach and followed some comments made to Shepherd by a BA player as he left the NWS.
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Mr Cult,
Was the penalty not for a VERY dubious handball rather than a foul?
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Mr Cult,
Was the penalty not for a VERY dubious handball rather than a foul?
ATS,
I think you are correct there.
The main thing I recall is the bitter irony that it had to be Shepherd of all people who conceded the penalty.
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I was stood next to the door at the NWS when that happened..one of their players shouted something to Shepherd and he chased after him and they had a fight in the street next to the coach.
Was Ian Horrigan (footballer and boxer) at the club then?
If so he destroyed about five of them on his own!
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I was stood next to the door at the NWS when that happened..one of their players shouted something to Shepherd and he chased after him and they had a fight in the street next to the coach.
Was Ian Horrigan (footballer and boxer) at the club then?
If so he destroyed about five of them on his own!
Ecky,
The comment I remember hearing from a Bishop Auckland player to George Shepherd was:
"Don't take up boxing, George".
Chaos was then unleashed!
My favourite moment of the whole melee came when Mark Harris was trying to get an irate Les Attwood to calm down:
Mark Harris:
"Stop swearing, Les!"
Les Attwood:
"I am NOT f**king swearing....!"
Priceless.
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That was exactly the quote!
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Always like this being talked about as I was in the sponsor lounge with NTL and awarded the man of the match to George Shepherd ,, It was never announced though for some strange reason ;)
Also watching Kingy pointing at a women copper who has blood pouring down her face and shouting at the EX BA chairmn who was sat infront of me and next to a couple of VERY big policemen "Thats out of order, I don't mind the bloke coppers getting tw*tted like that but thats a women for gods sake" ... Must say it was very scary watching John King lose it, even if he wasnt shouting at me it wasn't nice.
oh and add to that the announcement of "Don't get involved or go over to them" ,... YIP !
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My biggest allty game was enfield in the semi final of the fa trophy at alty which we won 2-0 and i suppose birmingham was a great achievement we had a great team then and to this day i am still very dissapointed that it does not get the media attention it deserves.When giant killings come on match of the day when was the last time alty where mentioned!never
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Runcorn Boxing Day 1998 was also a big game. I think that was the game when we reliased we could win the league.
That would be when Coburn saved a penalty and scored a goal in the same match! ;D
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My biggest allty game was enfield in the semi final of the fa trophy at alty which we won 2-0 and i suppose birmingham was a great achievement we had a great team then and to this day i am still very dissapointed that it does not get the media attention it deserves.When giant killings come on match of the day when was the last time alty where mentioned!never
That Enfield game was just brilliant.Getting to Wembley is as good if not better than the day itself in my view!
I got absolutely wrecked that night which culminated in Mrs. Flynn literally having to drag me into the house.I remember the look of dismay on my neighbour's face as I disappeared slowly through the front door singing "Wemberley.....Wemberley.....we're the famous Alty F.C. & we're going to Wemberley" ::)
Happy Days!