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Altrincham FC First Team / Alty press cuttings and other memorabilia.
« on: January 31, 2024, 01:43:54 PM »
With my health in woeful decline and me not being sure when I will be able to make my next game, I have decided to place all the Alty related stuff that I have accrued over the years, but mainly collected when I was a young Alty fan onto this thread. Most of the newspaper clips were found along the way whilst I was conducting Family History research during the last 20 years or so.
If we are promoted to EFL in the summer I will miss the FA Trophy and the annual chance to perhaps take down one of the big clubs in the sort of David and Goliath encounters that have so defined us over the decades that I have followed the Robins. Therefore, today I shall start with the 3-1 victory in the Trophy Final against Leatherhead at Wembley in 1977/78. I know that we could still claim some big scalps in the FA and Caribou Cups but somehow for me it will never carry quite the same quedos. If you have anything to add or contribute about that day or anything that features in the coming days, please feel able to so.
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Here are the match programme covers from the semi-finals and the Wem-ber-ley one. I remember how disappointed I was when we only managed to hold them to 0-0 during the home leg of the semi-final. After the game a mass brawl broke out on Stamford Park. It became known, typically for the era as the Battle of Stamford Park. No Vikings were in attendance.
Apres la bataille de Stamford it was with some trepidation that I went to Canal Street by coach to see the second leg. We got lost on the way there. The driver didn't have a clue where he was going and we ended up almost launching the coach into the Manchester Ship Canal at Weston Point (Runcorn Docks). When we arrived at the ground our end was already full and we were told that we had to go into the home end. I have never before or since been as restrained as I was when Mal Bailey, former Runcorn player, whose banjo had never seen a barn door, scored the only goal of the game. There was only 7 or 8 minutes left to go at that stage and they seemed like they were the longest minutes of my life. What a day that was and I avoided getting 'docked' after the game.
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I don't feel as if I need to say anything about the final. Everthing that needs to be said is covered by the following press clippings. Their were a lot of Red and white flags that day. Literally thousands.
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The Runcorn Guardian's take on the loss to Alty in the Semi and what the M.E.N. had to say about it. We took the headline in the Manchester Evening News Pink Final . Only those of us who were alive before t'interweb will know what the Pink Final was and how its passing has eroded away a much loved aspect of football culture. I remember the Pink Final guy setting himself up on the corner of Moss Lane and Stamford New Road where he used to sell the results paper every Saturday at about 5.30pm.
Tomorrow I plan to add Spurs v Alty 1979.
If we are promoted to EFL in the summer I will miss the FA Trophy and the annual chance to perhaps take down one of the big clubs in the sort of David and Goliath encounters that have so defined us over the decades that I have followed the Robins. Therefore, today I shall start with the 3-1 victory in the Trophy Final against Leatherhead at Wembley in 1977/78. I know that we could still claim some big scalps in the FA and Caribou Cups but somehow for me it will never carry quite the same quedos. If you have anything to add or contribute about that day or anything that features in the coming days, please feel able to so.
Double click on thumbnails to see full image
Here are the match programme covers from the semi-finals and the Wem-ber-ley one. I remember how disappointed I was when we only managed to hold them to 0-0 during the home leg of the semi-final. After the game a mass brawl broke out on Stamford Park. It became known, typically for the era as the Battle of Stamford Park. No Vikings were in attendance.
Apres la bataille de Stamford it was with some trepidation that I went to Canal Street by coach to see the second leg. We got lost on the way there. The driver didn't have a clue where he was going and we ended up almost launching the coach into the Manchester Ship Canal at Weston Point (Runcorn Docks). When we arrived at the ground our end was already full and we were told that we had to go into the home end. I have never before or since been as restrained as I was when Mal Bailey, former Runcorn player, whose banjo had never seen a barn door, scored the only goal of the game. There was only 7 or 8 minutes left to go at that stage and they seemed like they were the longest minutes of my life. What a day that was and I avoided getting 'docked' after the game.
Double click on thumbnail to see full image
I don't feel as if I need to say anything about the final. Everthing that needs to be said is covered by the following press clippings. Their were a lot of Red and white flags that day. Literally thousands.
Double click on thumbnail to see full image
The Runcorn Guardian's take on the loss to Alty in the Semi and what the M.E.N. had to say about it. We took the headline in the Manchester Evening News Pink Final . Only those of us who were alive before t'interweb will know what the Pink Final was and how its passing has eroded away a much loved aspect of football culture. I remember the Pink Final guy setting himself up on the corner of Moss Lane and Stamford New Road where he used to sell the results paper every Saturday at about 5.30pm.
Tomorrow I plan to add Spurs v Alty 1979.
