11 and a half for me, got served at 23.15 after arriving later than planned due to Friday night refreshments. Remember on the day it had apparently been announced online season tkt holders could buy an extra ticket with 2 cup game ticket stubs which some knew about and others didnt.Over 11 hours for me.
Frank Clark had a hangdog lookReading this thread I briefly mistook Frank Horrocks for the guy with sort of a hangdog look who did the specials with Cheesy but then remembered he was called Howard I think. Anyone remember him ?
Julian Wood moved to London in about 1979 or 1980. A few of us kipped on his floor before and after the 81 FA Cup final.Hi MES, I think I know you, were you in the Leicester and Rugby branch and used to talk about Gordon Smith a lot?! Yeah I think Kevin was on the committee, the controversial newsletter editor was I think called Julian Wood. I wasn’t on the committee so wasn’t in that meeting but I was told by a lad that was there that Horrocks stated to the meeting that if the vote went in favour of London staying he would quit, so then the vote became not about London going but about Horrocks staying. Because of that the vote went against and the London branch was expelled.
Edit: different Kevin, I think Kevin Cummins was in the branch after I left it. I think there was a Kevin Whelan on the committee in my day
Howard YatesReading this thread I briefly mistook Frank Horrocks for the guy with sort of a hangdog look who did the specials with Cheesy but then remembered he was called Howard I think. Anyone remember him ?
Gate fiddling was the last thing on the police's mind back then!Julian Wood moved to London in about 1979 or 1980. A few of us kipped on his floor before and after the 81 FA Cup final.
I lost touch with him in the late 80s but I heard he emigrated to Israel about 20-25 years ago.
The play-off final ticket distribution was a joke. 35,000 tickets and just 10/12 windows at the ticket office. We were favourites to beat Wigan so should have prepared by bringing in a load of staff and sold tickets at some of the stadium turnstiles. It ain't rocket engineering but Bernard was bloody useless.
As for the crowd figure manipulation debate I will ask the question I always ask: Each turnstile was fitted with a non-resettable counter so the actual crowd could be calculated. The police could easily find the true attendances and I can't believe they would allow mass fraud to continue if the offence was repeated as often as claimed.
Possibly, but it's alleged to have gone on throughout the Swales era and you'd think a rag copper or two would have sought to drop us in the brown, smelly stuff.Gate fiddling was the last thing on the police's mind back then!
Maybe they were in on the deal too ha ha who knows!Possibly, but it's alleged to have gone on throughout the Swales era and you'd think a rag copper or two would have sought to drop us in the brown, smelly stuff.
Ryan Giggs?Given this precedent of a thread.
Should be interesting reading when a certain manager from Trafford obliges.
Yes we did, by the time it was dark, I remember the line snaking in and out of the North Stand.