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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: roytonmike on January 22, 2019, 12:01:25 PM
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For the historically minded - 53 years ago today we made our first appearance in the FA Cup 3rd Round, at Molineux against Wolves. It was before my time - my first game was in 1968. We lost 5-0 but it was our first defeat of the season!
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i was there.the pitch was covered in snow and people were throwing snowballs at each other,in a fun way.
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I was at that game . I was 12 years old,
Jackie Swindells scored but it was disallowed as he used his hand to score it.
Happy days.
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I was also there and by coincidence was also 12,my father took me,i remember it well,we were high up in a stand on the side of the ground.
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I was half as old again as Ray and Cliff, and stood behind a goal with the girl of my dreams. My first experience of us against a League outfit, and quite a chastening experience. To make matters worse, the young lady met a guy with a Norton Dominator not long afterwards, and blew me out.
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I was half as old again as Ray and Cliff, and stood behind a goal with the girl of my dreams. My first experience of us against a League outfit, and quite a chastening experience. To make matters worse, the young lady met a guy with a Norton Dominator not long afterwards, and blew me out.
Phil, I was also behind the goal and I think I drove my dad to the match. I went home with a girl on a motorbike ;D
Seriously, having watched such a magnificent season, and having travelled all the way to the frozen north - Rochdale - in the previous round, the defeat was a massive disappointment. The snow and ice was so bad the match should never have been played.
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I was 15 and was convinced we were a league team in all but name.
This was the game which brought me down to earth.
After Jackie getting 4 in the last 6 minutes against Scarborough (2 in the last minute I think?) and then going up to Rochdale had and winning there (I believe Les Campbell, he of the enormous shin pads, scored) I actually thought we'd get a result at Wolves. The whole thing was a rude awakening to do with the relative age of our team, our fitness compared to them and the skill levels on display. We did our best but they really were in a different league.
It brought me down to earth but it certainly didn't put me off the Super Robins and I've seen all our 3rd round matches since them (and one in the fourth round against a team that was two leagues higher than us at the time but is now well behind us in this league this season).
Those days can come again with PP if we all believe (and the team does too!)