Marine

See Marine, our cup conquerers back in the 70s, have won on pens at Colchester this afternoon. I didn’t even know they still existed.

 

Noticed earlier where BBSers were saying Altrincham was there worst day. They obviously didn't go to Marine. I did, now that was humiliating.

 

I went to Old Trafford to see us lose to Rhyll in a FA Cup 2nd replay in 1970 I think. Now that WAS humil,,,,,, oh f**k it!

 

This ^^^^^^^^
Rhyl
Oakwell
Old Trafford
Three bites of the cherry. Went wit Tracky. To the theatre of dreams. Kept wishing it was a dream.

 

Yup. I was also at all 3 games. Definitely lowest of the low.

 

Also. how on earth did we beat Bromsgrove. Battered for 85 minutes.

 

Sounds huRHYLiating

 

Theatre of nightmares more like

N.B. I didn't go - I was only 3 at the time (lucky me eh?)

 

There are some very old people on this site.

No wonder there’s so much posted about Joe Biden. Probably went to school with him.

 

They had a goalie called Grenville Millington. ( brother of Tony— WBA) was outstanding all three games. Went on to play for Chester and was allus a thorn in our side.

 

G - G- G- Grenville. Sounds like Arkwright in Open All hours lol

 

One or two old enough to have taught him.

 

What were the scores in those games HF.?

 

We lost 2-0 @ Old Trafford (2nd Replay) after a 1-1 Draw @ Oakwell (Replay) and a 0-0 draw at Rhyl

 

Thanks T67

Proper **** missen at Rhyl. 5 on us in car. Me 13 yrs owd. and Cousin 15. Stood outside their social club. 3 older travellers inside having a light refreshment. Us 2 getting some reight looks. Believe it or not having tomatoes thrown at us from the terrace overlooking the social club. ( much more civil in those days )

Was stood on their end opposite reds fans. To this day don’t know why, apart from fans weren’t separated till later yrs. Got daggers all the game. god knows what would have happened to us if we’d scored. I was Probably relieved we didn’t.

 

Great story HF

I remember when I was a kid my dad took us to Hillsboro and Bramall Lane and stand/sit in the home end cos it was 50p cheaper or summat. Never got any bother though even when we scored. We were however in the away end (sat right at the top) when Glavin scored the brilliant winner at Hillsboro to win the game 1-0.

 

Me n your dad from the same cloth.
Been in opponents ends several times cos of cost. ( 50p was 50p in those days)
Oldham once. No concessions £4 each.
Went round to their end £3 adult £2 child.
( prices too difficult to recall so as best)
Copper. “ You can’t come in here” we were wearing red and white scarves.
Me “Why not”
C- “it’s home end”
M- “ so what ? It’s cheaper in here I’m not paying £8 when it’ll only cost me £5 in here”
C- “ You can’t come in “
M-“ who sez”
C- “erm”
Oldham fan “ lerrim in. If ar wor at their place ad dut same”
M- “Cheers fo that pal”
C- “Go on then, but take your colours off”
M- “ thanks sir “
Went in. walked up to the perimeter wall. Pulled a different copper walking round the side.
M- “ are we int wrong end here.” ( having put scarves back on)
C2 - “er, yes”
M- “ av dropped a reight bolok then. Can we go in ar end. Could be uncomfortable “
C2- “ come on then follow me”


Did same at Hull, they allowed us to go in, eventually. (me giving coppers a load of grief. pleading how much I would save. Being a poor soul from tarn and it being Xmas) . But got a steward to take us round to our fans as soon as we got through the turnstiles.

Bear in mind these incidents only occurred cos some turnstile operators wouldn’t let me lift mi young un ovver, Which tbf lifting Im ovver happened a lot more often than I care to remember.

As I say 50p was 50p in those days. Probably cost of a couple of pints.

 

Laughing and smiling all through that HF, great memories

 

He were 21 and tha were still trying to lift him over turnstile.