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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on April 29, 2008, 03:39:33 PM
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It will probably make a few people on here feel rather old today when they realise that it is the 30th anniversary of Alty's first visit to Wembley.
So, set aside a quiet moment later this evening, pour yourself a glass of your favourite tipple and raise a toast to the following Alty legends (and Joe Flaherty....):
Peter Eales
Stan Allan
Ivan Crossley (RIP)
Mal Bailey
John Owens
John King
Ian Morris
Graham Heathcote
Jeff Johnson
John Rogers
John Davison.
Oh, and not forgetting Tony Sanders and Peter Warburton.
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So far I believe that at least 8 of that team have accepted an invitation to join us for the 30th anniversary celebration at the club on 10th May.
Tickets proced at £10 are available from the club during office hours and will be on sale at the staff v supporters game on Friday.
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I was there.
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It was actually my first ever Alty game !!
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I was there with my (then) wife, my eldest daughter (who was 2) and her uncle who was 7.
Apart from the game (obviously), the thing I remember with most pleasure was driving home in the car we had hired for the weekend (it was the cheapest way of getting there and I couldn't afford a car of my own!)
The radio was set for Piccadilly Radio but there must have been a London station on the same frequency down there because when I turned the radio on as we got on to the motorway, there was a phone-in programme and the station guy was commiserating with a caller from Leatherhead - complaining that we had 'spoilt the game' by going 2 up and killing it off so early on!
Happy days - it still brings a smile to my face thinking about that.
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I was there as well....nothing but great memories of the day, Kingy swinging his shirt round his head.....!!
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LBC were on 261 as well as Piccadilly.
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I was there...we travelled down in a white Ford Granada estate....me and my two brothers took a friend each and we also took Big Bill and Brian Sweeney down as well....alll the kids were in the boot!!!!!
What a day!..we'd only just sat down and we scored...my Dad jumped up and all his credit cards flew out of his pocket scattering the people around like confetti....he'd only just collected them all up with many apologies when we scored again and the cards went flyting again!
Whoever was there will forever remember with reverance that day and all those players listed...those who missed out can only hear the legends in awe and wonder if it were really true and if we really were that good......yes we were!
feels like yesterday.
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I have just this minute come back from my first visit to Leatherhead as I had to go the offices of the Surrey FA
I was thinkg of that day on my way there - Didnt realise it was 30 years ago - probably due to decades of lying about my age !!
We went down to Wembley on a coach we hired with all the regualrs from the Vault of the Moss Hotel (next to the Ground)
Great day out - most memorable moment was Kingy's goal and his celebration
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I was there...we travelled down in a white Ford Granada estate....me and my two brothers took a friend each and we also took Big Bill and Brian Sweeney down as well....alll the kids were in the boot!!!!!
What a day!..we'd only just sat down and we scored...my Dad jumped up and all his credit cards flew out of his pocket scattering the people around like confetti....he'd only just collected them all up with many apologies when we scored again and the cards went flyting again!
Whoever was there will forever remember with reverance that day and all those players listed...those who missed out can only hear the legends in awe and wonder if it were really true and if we really were that good......yes we were!
feels like yesterday.
Jezza,
Did Brian Sweeney actually praise Alty for their 3-1 win.....or did he complain that we didn't use the wings at Wembley enough...?
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I was there with my Brother Garry,my Father and my Uncle,little did i know i that would be my last full season watching Alty as March the following year i moved to Devon
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30 B****y years ago my word doesnt time fly.
Me and my mates went on one of the special trains of which there were two i believe. We managed to convince an off licence to sell us some beer at about 08:00 in the morning. Si nearly got arrested after the match for snogging a policewoman full on then we nearly missed our train back coz we stopped at nearly every off licence back to Wembley Central getting bottles of champers,( think it might of been Asti Spumante really). On the journey back i nearly got chucked off the train at Rugby, its not a good idea leaning out the window, waving a red flag on the railway. Always remember mum and dad commenting how easy the shopping was that day as Alty was a ghost town. Ah The Memories.
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Yeah i was on one of those trains too.
How many did Alty take down that day ?
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ah yes the special trains. i think we had to get up to oxford road first to although for the life of me i can't think why we didn't get on it at altrincham. maybe my memory is playing tricks. i do remember the off licence in wembley with the alsatian sat next to the till and drinking far too much colt 45 on the way home.
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By Heck UC yes the alsation well remembered. as for the trains tricks of the mind i think coz i remember getting on at Altrincham and we had to walk along the train to get a seat, by the time we sat down we were half way along Greenwood st car park, nearly in Hale lol
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yes, i think the train from oxford road was some excursion thingy i went on about the same time.
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I was there, sat directly in line with the goal line, where King's header crossed the line. Fantastic.
Johnson and Rogers goals were brilliant too.
Seem to remember singing " When the red,red Robin goes Bobbin along!!"
Great memories to last a lifetime.
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we def got on at Altrincham and the now famous (well it got a mention in that 442 article) alty's got brains not leatherheads banner.
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i can recall the last two seats in our compartment were filled by a dad and his trainspotting son about 8 years old . the rest of the compartment was drunken 17/18 yearolds .
the nervous father was amazed when we pulled into crewe and half of us leapt into action shouting and running around .....................................
collecting train numbers . we got loads even a couple of rare shunters, 08 class i think.
The match great
the alsation on the checkout in the offy after the match was crap as it did not now if you had paid or not and i borrowed enough beer to get me home . i must take it back one day but i am afraid the dog will recognise me.
another funny bit was the train stopping by witton park in northich for about an hour as we exchanged abuse and anything we could throw with a bunch of pratt northwich fans. we were not getting off the train to fight and they were certainly not getting on it.
great great day out . my mother awoke to find three startting blocks from the golf course on her lawn now how did they get there
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iirc when we pulled into Crewe to change locos, there was a football special full of Chelsea fans in who thought coz we were in red and white we were united fans, cue loads of slanging chucking of cans, bottles etc
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wasnt that liverpool fans on our way to tottenham??????
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I'm sitting here reading this but I'm not too sure some of the memories are correct. I was at all three finals the first by coach, but the special train one was the Enfield game. I think the stand off row was then between us and Everton, just outside Crewe.Lots of mouthing across tracks but no more I recall. The fckn alarm thingy went off every half mile as we got near home as people got off and legged it across the tracks. Oh and Stafford larging it on the station on the way past......ha ha!
The Runcorn final I spent the weekend in London, at an old schoolmates flat. We got nicked for "soiling the railway" ie having a piss against Victoria Stn wall.........never turned up at court, prob get a knock in the morning now! Are we safe 22 yrs on?
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there was def a special train for the leatherhead game because it was the only one i went to.
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Ok UC, perhaps we had a row with various old Div 1 clubs on the way home! Marvellous. Bring it all back.
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everton beat someone six nil on the day of the 78 final latchford got a hatrick
we def went by train
enfield 82 i went by coach from the club and we filled the gap between the back seat and the back window with beer tins much to the disdain of the driver a stand off with northampton fans at a service station and a dry do all the way home,my first experience of Wembley head. (youngsters will find out about wembley head one day i hope)
scottie you were on the same coach i recall.
86 the notorious cheshire mid drink drugs and rock and roll coach , great day tequila at 6.00am in the chesh, lunch in a pub in richmond (well i thought London was a small town)
half the coach evicted from wembley for being pissed. famous quote from driver i am not stopping on the way back. reply from 52 drunks if you want your coach in one piece you will stop at this off licence now . he stopped. but the coach still got home missing three seats .
funnily enough it was also the end of my first and only engagement after my betrothed one emptied a table of glasses in my direction through the door of the cheshire mid
(how many glasses hit me? cornerflag) them women and football just dont mix.
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i can remember the leatherhead final like it was yesterday but have absolutely no recollection of the enfield final despite being there. maybe thats the difference between 16 and 19!
first final half my class from school went together on a coach from the ground. i nipped off for a piss during the game and just reached the top of the steps as kingy scored the third, cue several people tumbling back down the steps in celebration. great days indeed. the opposition support was woeful wasnt it?
sw is right that the stand off at crewe was on the way to tottenham on the special. and they were liverpool fans. wasnt so much a stand off as they would have killed us if they could have got at us.
has anyone ever read the hoolie book steaming in by colin ward? its about his time as an arse hoolie but he was from leatherhead and at the game and describes being battered by alty fans
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I read that years ago Jim, always wondered how true it was. I recall coming out of Wembley at the end and a handful of Leatherhead followers mouthing off and trying to be hard, one in a butchers white coat. He said something to me and my mate and was grabbed by the throat by a 30 something Man U fan off our coach. Perhaps that was him?
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a butchers white coat!!!! brilliant. ;D