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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on May 21, 2022, 03:59:15 PM
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In the Sunderland squad (on loan from Everton) for this afternoon's League One Play-Off Final at Wembley is one Nathan Broadhead, who happens to be the grandson of the former Alty, Oswestry Town and Bangor City striker Tony Broadhead, whom some of us will have watched play for the Robins during the seasons 1971/72 to 1974/75. He was Alty's leading goalscorer during the 1971/72 NPL season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60572959 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60572959)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61478455 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61478455)
https://www.thebangoraye.com/what-next-for-nathan-broadhead-the-bangor-lad-with-magic-feet/ (https://www.thebangoraye.com/what-next-for-nathan-broadhead-the-bangor-lad-with-magic-feet/)
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Here's a sad but lovely story about a senior supporter of his club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-61534940
Salute.
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Here's a sad but lovely story about a senior supporter of his club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-61534940
Salute.
Lovely
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In the Sunderland squad (on loan from Everton) for this afternoon's League One Play-Off Final at Wembley is one Nathan Broadhead, who happens to be the grandson of the former Alty, Oswestry Town and Bangor City striker Tony Broadhead, whom some of us will have watched play for the Robins during the seasons 1971/72 to 1974/75. He was Alty's leading goalscorer during the 1971/72 NPL season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60572959 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60572959)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61478455 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61478455)
https://www.thebangoraye.com/what-next-for-nathan-broadhead-the-bangor-lad-with-magic-feet/ (https://www.thebangoraye.com/what-next-for-nathan-broadhead-the-bangor-lad-with-magic-feet/)
I have a memory of us playing at the now-demolished Oswestry Town ground in a cup (fa trophy?) and Tony broadhead playing for them.
I remember walking under the back of the wooden stand and thinking what an utter deathtrap it was.
Can someone confirm this to save me digging through my old programmes? 😊😊
PS. Surely I'm not imagining this? 😂😂
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When we played Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup, they put two defenders on Tony Broadhead at Moss Lane, having identified him as our biggest threat at Ewood Park in the first meeting. We damn near won that game when Mickey Brooke hit a thunderbolt against their crossbar late on.
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You're right Sanghall , we won 3-0 at Oswestry in the FA cup 4th Qual rd in 1971 -2 , Tony scored one of our goals onat a really 'strange' type of ground . We lost 1-0 at Rossendale in Round 1 to a penalty that hit the post twice and Willie Maileys leg before going in ! Tony was one of our better forwards back then , unfortunately moving on to Macc and doing well there too !
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Thanks for that Swindellsworth!
Good to know I've not lost it yet! 😉
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Ha ha . I know , i'm right up there with you and any reassurance is always gratefully received 👊
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
Didn't realise you were such a late starter 😂😂
As far as I recall, there was no reason for the bad feelings generally it was usually when there was a m*cc or a v*cs that sparks started to fly.
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
Didn't realise you were such a late starter 😂😂
As far as I recall, there was no reason for the bad feelings generally it was usually when there was a m*cc or a v*cs that sparks started to fly.
I was nine for my first match which was not too late if I say so myself. :) A year or two later, though, it was surprising at my then young age and still sticks in the mind to see a player getting abuse and gesturing at the crowd.
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
Didn't realise you were such a late starter 😂😂
As far as I recall, there was no reason for the bad feelings generally it was usually when there was a m*cc or a v*cs that sparks started to fly.
I was nine for my first match which was not too late if I say so myself. :) A year or two later, though, it was surprising at my then young age and still sticks in the mind to see a player getting abuse and gesturing at the crowd.
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What I really meant was that I didn't realise you were such a 'youngster'! 😂😂
I was a married man! 🤯
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Hey ho , it's moments like these which really do test your memory cells . Anyway after a little research it appears that Tony Broadhead actually played for M××× prior to joining us . After some digging i found that during the FA Trophy quarter final in 1970 -71 a foul on him by Hereford player manager John Charles led to the Welsh legends one and only ever booking in his long and distuinguished playing career . Only taken 51 years to find that little gem .
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Fred Eyre, in his book Kicked into Touch, mentions Tony Broadhead as an Oswestry player. Tony apparently said to him “We get stuck in here”.
That was certainly an apt description of his playing style as I recall it.
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
Didn't realise you were such a late starter 😂😂
As far as I recall, there was no reason for the bad feelings generally it was usually when there was a m*cc or a v*cs that sparks started to fly.
Yes. I remember when Stuart Terry went to Northwich (scuse my language), and the banter about his clean shirt.
I always think it's a pity there isn't more video footage of those days. Someone really should write a book about Alty in the 70's and 80's whilst there are still plenty of people who remember it - the stuff of legend! I remember "Kingdom Come", written in the aftermath of the Maunders debacle - are there any other books about Alty?
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
Didn't realise you were such a late starter 😂😂
As far as I recall, there was no reason for the bad feelings generally it was usually when there was a m*cc or a v*cs that sparks started to fly.
Yes. I remember when Stuart Terry went to Northwich (scuse my language), and the banter about his clean shirt.
I always think it's a pity there isn't more video footage of those days. Someone really should write a book about Alty in the 70's and 80's whilst there are still plenty of people who remember it - the stuff of legend! I remember "Kingdom Come", written in the aftermath of the Maunders debacle - are there any other books about Alty?
When we were Kings.
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Note sure if "When we were kings" was ever a book. I recall it being a series of articles written by the Cult and published on the old website, probably 10 or more years ago?
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May be getting confused with All the King's Men?
There was also The Unibond Years?
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May be getting confused with All the King's Men?
There was also The Unibond Years?
All The King's Men was a souvenir brochure issued to commemorate Alty reaching the 1986 FA Trophy Final against Runcorn.
There have been three publications pertaining to the Robins:
(i) Altrincham Football Club 1992/93: The Inside Story Of A Season by Mark Harris
An entertaining chronicle of the first season under the management of Gerry Quinn at Moss Lane.
(ii) Altrincham FC....Kingdom Come by Mark Harris
The story of the 1993/94 & 1994/95 seasons, right up to the abrupt exit of John Maunders and the foundation of the supporters' group SAFE.
(iii) Altrincham FC: The Unibond Years by Grahame & Terry Rowley
An exhaustive account of the 1997/98 & 1998/99 seasons, including many of the respective match reports in The Messenger written by Mike Crockett and Mark Harris.
All are essential reading!
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Modesty prevents Mr Cult including his own superb "When we were kings" series which really should be published and on sale at the club - essential reading about the 1979-80 season when we won the first Alliance Premier League (now National League) title.
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Note sure if "When we were kings" was ever a book. I recall it being a series of articles written by the Cult and published on the old website, probably 10 or more years ago?
I wrote that series of articles entitled When We Were Kings for the Robins Review during the 2009/10 & 2010/11 seasons in order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the inaugural Alliance Premier League season in 1979/80, when, of course, Alty just happened to win the league title.
It evolved into becoming a much more extensive project than I had initially envisaged and duly expanded into a total of 50 articles (the last of which was scheduled to comprise a comprehensive statistical analysis of that campaign).
Lots of prose, contemporary press coverage, recollections from supporters etc. (including those of a certain Bill Waterson) but I didn't get around to enhancing the articles with accompanying photographs and images, I'm afraid. That could certainly still be accomplished though.
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Modesty prevents Mr Cult including his own superb "When we were kings" series which really should be published and on sale at the club - essential reading about the 1979-80 season when we won the first Alliance Premier League (now National League) title.
Paul,
You are too kind!
I wrote my above response before I read your generous words.
I'd certainly be happy to revise those articles and complement them with some images and photographs.
We really do need an extensive 'history' section being developed on the official club website whilst some of us can still remember games and names!
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May be getting confused with All the King's Men?
There was also The Unibond Years?
Yes. Indeed. Sorry. It's an age thing.
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I came here hoping to find out the werabouts of Chris senior. Very very disappointed
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I came here hoping to find out the werabouts of Chris senior. Very very disappointed
He's at the JDS. His signing is being announced tomorrow. 🤫
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I came here hoping to find out the werabouts of Chris senior. Very very disappointed
He’s gone under the radar.
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Cult’s “When We Were Kings” series of articles were wonderful reading, chronicling a time when there was no Alty TV, with the heroic deeds of that season recorded only in the memories of supporters and local press articles. 79/80 was my first season at Moss Lane, and I couldn’t have chosen a better one to start my lifelong Alty association.
I have no doubt that publishing those articles in a book with a print run of 1,000 copies would be a success.
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I'd certainly buy a copy and I'm positive lots of other people would too.
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I go back to 74/75 and can't properly remember Tony Broadhead playing for us, but do remember him returning as a Bangor City player a season or two later and getting more abuse than any other opposition player I had seen to that point.
I assume he went with Roy Rees to Bangor, but did he leave with particular bad feeling?
As is mentioned elsewhere in the thread Tony arrived from Macc in my first proper season supporting the club (71/2). One of the very few players who Roy Rees retained on his arrival and featured more as a winger. Reknowned for liking a dive in the box which may account for him getting stick on his return for Bangor (which I seem to remember). Best memory of him was my debut as a ballboy - striking a superb top corner extra time 4 Qual replay winner v Lancaster at the Golf Road to secure that home tie with Notts County in 72.
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I remember a 78-79 Northern Premier League game with Bangor at Moss Lane which ended 3-3, John Rogers equalising for us in 90+5 when goals rarely happened in stoppage time. The Bangor front 2 were Tony Broadhead and John Hughes
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Went quite a few times to Farrar Road , only saw us lose once , 4-0 and we hit the woodwork 5 times ! We were level at the top with Stafford who had won there 5-1 the previous week . Under Roy Chapman , Stafford went on to win the league and trophy double .
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Went quite a few times to Farrar Road , only saw us lose once , 4-0 and we hit the woodwork 5 times ! We were level at the top with Stafford who had won there 5-1 the previous week . Under Roy Chapman , Stafford went on to win the league and trophy double .
20th September 1972.
Stafford Rangers completed the NPL title and FA Trophy double the previous season though.
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Ah yes. That (in)famous Stafford (owzat?) Rangers offside trap routine. I remember it well! 😉
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Ah , apologies , you are right Cult it was the season after Staffords double . Despite their really annoying obsession with playing for offside they had a great team nontheless.