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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Brian Flynn on April 12, 2021, 03:12:50 PM
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https://www.altrinchamfc.com/news/altrincham-v-sutton-united-new-kick-off-time-at-12-30pm
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Nice gesture by National League & Football League... assume most (if not all) sports will follow suit as a mark of respect...
So Sat lunchtime (12:30) ko to look forward to for Sutton game... well done Alty & National Lge as a whole...
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
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The tragic circumstances allows me to watch the first half!
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Well I'll be well trollied by 6-00pm
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Well I'll be well trollied by 6-00pm
I'll be shopping trollied from 3-7!
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Well I'll be well trollied by 6-00pm
I'll be shopping trollied from 3-7!
Trollies. Great word.
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
Guess there may have been a midday ko for TV at some point in our history... i think the Alty v Barnet 4-1 in1991 was 1pm ko for TV, but trying to recall any game earlier than 12:30...
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
What time did winter Saturday games kick off in the pre-floodlights era?
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
What time did winter Saturday games kick off in the pre-floodlights era?
2:30pm generally, although I have also seen home programmes that denote a 2:15pm kick-off.
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
Guess there may have been a midday ko for TV at some point in our history... i think the Alty v Barnet 4-1 in1991 was 1pm ko for TV, but trying to recall any game earlier than 12:30...
That FA Cup tie against Darlington in December 2001 was also a 1:00pm kick-off.
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
What time did winter Saturday games kick off in the pre-floodlights era?
2:30pm generally, although I have also seen home programmes that denote a 2:15pm kick-off.
I'm surprised at that. That would mean matches ending about 4pm when it would be dark in December.
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Here's an esoteric one for the fellow anoraks who lurk on this forum...
Would 12:30pm represent the earliest ever kick-off time for an Alty home fixture on a Saturday?
What time did winter Saturday games kick off in the pre-floodlights era?
2:30pm generally, although I have also seen home programmes that denote a 2:15pm kick-off.
I'm surprised at that. That would mean matches ending about 4pm when it would be dark in December.
I have seen elsewhere that, before the use of floodlights, games did kick off surprisingly late in winter.
The archive section of John Laidlar's website mentions (look under Kick-offs in the link) that morning kick-offs were not unusual, when two games were played in a day, but, unfortunately, does not give match details or times. I do remember reading about a day at the end of a season when we did play two games in a day, and I think some players played in both; this would have been in the Manchester League days.
http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/altyhtol.htm (http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/altyhtol.htm)
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I've found an earlier one. Not a Saturday but still:
http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/080825wm.htm (http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/080825wm.htm)
Not sure why it was a midday kick-off - police advice presumably?
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73-4 might be a good place to look.
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I've found an earlier one. Not a Saturday but still:
http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/080825wm.htm (http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/080825wm.htm)
Not sure why it was a midday kick-off - police advice presumably?
Yep, u were right - found this in Alty Files Archive News from July 2008 (pan down to look under date of 26th July 2008 - article titled 'High Noon')... it is a Bank Holiday & despite other matches ko 3pm police advice made us ko at noon...
http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/alt0708l.htm
'It has been confirmed that the Altrincham v Wrexham match on Bank Holiday Monday has been moved to a noon kick off on police advice.
Fans visiting Moss Lane this season will notice a difference at the away end, where the block of apartments pictured above is rising behind the Carole Nash & Family End. There can't be many flats with a better view of a football pitch than these!'
Surely Brian Flynn should have remembered this as looking at match report you posted he appears to have been the match sponsor for this match... :)
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Wasn't that the time Wrexham brought about 1600 on the bank holiday? I suppose 1000 Wrexham fans getting drunk in Manchester and then rolling up at ML wouldn't have been a very good idea.
Still the most impressive away support I've seen at Alty. They were singing on 3 sides as I remember, and fortunately rather better behaved then some supporters of a neighbouring club.
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You may well be right Hugh... found these articles from Wrexham Archive and Alty Archive (Alty one pan down to 29th August for 'Mutual Praise')...
https://www.wrexhamafcarchive.co.uk/matchdetails.php?id=231
http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/alt0809a.htm
One article says Crowd 2619 (Away 1700 fans)... other says over 1600 away fans... eitherway recall lots of Wrexham fans at Moss Lane that day...
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The tragic circumstances allows me to watch the first half!
Glad to hear that you will now be able to catch the first half of the Sutton United game but I don't think that the peaceful death of a privileged 99-year-old man warrants the term 'tragic'.
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The tragic circumstances allows me to watch the first half!
Glad to hear that you will now be able to catch the first half of the Sutton United game but I don't think that the peaceful death of a privileged 99-year-old man warrants the term 'tragic'.
Ooh. I thought JD was being a bit ironic using 'tragic'.
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