Hello, I'm just reading the thread on Clarkes first goal for the club. That season was the first my dad decided to take me down to Oakwell as a 7 year old. I wouldn't say I was hooked after the first game. We lost at home to Torquay. Anyway there's been plenty of ups since then. But for a club who's spent the majority of its history in the second tier how did we get that low?
Most clubs have periods of time where they're in a slump. Ours lasted the best of two decades, the '60's & '70's & it wasn't down to one individual reason. Others have suffered, too, and fallen much further. Grimsby who have been a non league club since 2010, were a 1st Division club (apart for a couple of seasons) from 1929 to 1948. I think for a provincial town club, it's a tremendous achievement to be England's longest serving club in the second tier in history.
And as I started in 1961, right at the beginning of that period, I endured 21 seasons of solid lower division dross during which the Second Division was nothing but an impossible dream. And yet I'm still here! You young uns - yer don't know yer born lol Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
I started in 1968. There were times back in the Fourth Division days of the 1970's when even the Third Division seemed something of a pipe dream! But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'. <img src ="https://crazycraig524.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/monty_python_live___726694a.jpg">
i started watching the reds in the days of norman hunter (after allan clarke had left us for the l*eeds scum), so i never knew about those dark days of the 70s which fans talk about now. didnt clarkey finally hang up his playing boots after a loss for us at reading in 1979 (it was a 7-0 t*watting actually!!).
