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League Two play off final and assorted Cobblers anecdotes of games of old!

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« Reply #40 on: June 03, 2021, 13:09:08 pm »

I was there along with 10000 others.

I actually was there, sitting on the steps at the back of THE...it was a pretty clear view. I don't remember seeing you  Grin Tongue
We actually used to laugh at how bad things were back then.
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« Reply #41 on: June 03, 2021, 13:26:37 pm »

Well, I know that I definitely wasn't there.  Cool
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« Reply #42 on: June 03, 2021, 13:28:39 pm »

I was there along with 10000 others.

I was there with a mate who no longer goes and we got chatting to 2 blokes who were from oop north, but down here working and decided to come along. So it could have been even worse.
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« Reply #43 on: June 03, 2021, 19:18:16 pm »

I was one of the 942 and while that may have been the only sub 1000 gate, there were several that weren't much higher. I think crowds(?) were hovering around 1200 at the time.
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« Reply #44 on: June 03, 2021, 19:35:10 pm »

I was one of the 942 and while that may have been the only sub 1000 gate, there were several that weren't much higher. I think crowds(?) were hovering around 1200 at the time.
I think that I was but I cant remember. But I used to go to all of the games.
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« Reply #45 on: June 03, 2021, 20:03:01 pm »

As a true supporters of the Mighty Cobbs I was at that game. As an even morererererer truererererer supporter, I reckon I can say that I also attended our lowest ever supported away game as well.... Albeit a friendly.



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« Reply #46 on: June 03, 2021, 21:39:04 pm »

As a true supporters of the Mighty Cobbs I was at that game. As an even morererererer truererererer supporter, I reckon I can say that I also attended our lowest ever supported away game as well.... Albeit a friendly.




I remember going to the Victoria ground to watch the Cobbs play Stoke in the Sherpa Van Trophy game I think there was about 10 of us.
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« Reply #47 on: June 03, 2021, 22:30:49 pm »

I remember going to the Victoria ground to watch the  Cobbs play Stoke in the Sherpa Van Trophy game I think there was about 10 of us.

I was at Stoke, Liverpool, Crystal Palacex2, Leicester, Blackpool, West Ham, Tottenham, Arsenal, Middlesbrough, Wolves, Millwal, Rotherham and Bath! Apart from CP, Liverpool, Leicester and Blackpool, some of those old League grounds have gone🥲. Of course am going back years and as far as I can remember there was no crowd segregation. Bit dicey at Millwall and Stoke! Worst grounds been too are Stanley, BrRovers , Barnet & Walsall old ground. Nastiest supporters, Millwall and Oxford! Who are your ‘favs’ fans Coolie and Tabasco?
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« Reply #48 on: June 04, 2021, 09:02:18 am »

I remember going to the Victoria ground to watch the Cobbs play Stoke in the Sherpa Van Trophy game I think there was about 10 of us.

I was at that game with my cousin, who occasionally posts on here. I’m pretty sure it was better attended than that. Not a lot though.. 😀.

Doc feelgood was with me at the game I’m referring to. It was against CD Marathon, and played at the SAS stadium.
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« Reply #49 on: June 04, 2021, 09:15:01 am »

I was at Stoke, Liverpool, Crystal Palacex2, Leicester, Blackpool, West Ham, Tottenham, Arsenal, Middlesbrough, Wolves, Millwal, Rotherham and Bath! Apart from CP, Liverpool, Leicester and Blackpool, some of those old League grounds have gone🥲. Of course am going back years and as far as I can remember there was no crowd segregation. Bit dicey at Millwall and Stoke! Worst grounds been too are Stanley, BrRovers , Barnet & Walsall old ground. Nastiest supporters, Millwall and Oxford! Who are your ‘favs’ fans Coolie and Tabasco?
Well, that pub outside Swindons ground was dodgy, but me and Geema stood our ground, a few others came running out. I have been chased around Turfmore, I had my jaw broken at Watford, fukc knows what he hit me with, Maine Road. The only time that I ever looked at a pub and said "no way"
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« Reply #50 on: June 04, 2021, 09:59:19 am »

Well, that pub outside Swindons ground was dodgy, but me and Geema stood our ground, a few others came running out. I have been chased around Turfmore, I had my jaw broken at Watford, fukc knows what he hit me with, Maine Road. The only time that I ever looked at a pub and said "no way"
Manny battled a lot of Jack Army outside the prison, unfortunately I did take quite a bit of damage, still I was only young and was a good healer.
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« Reply #51 on: June 04, 2021, 10:21:01 am »

Manny battled a lot of Jack Army outside the prison, unfortunately I did take quite a bit of damage, still I was only young and was a good healer.


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There weren't many grounds you didn't get the run around. From Cardiff to Stoke and even Torquay town centre! The most exposed to getting a kicking I can recall was the Newcastle FA cup tie, absolute nutters (considering they'd won), hence why I never buy into the 'friendly Geordie' tag.
At home I think the Pompey take over was the most terrified I'd been. I was pretty young and didn't fully understand why the Hotel End was full. I also had a petrol bomb thrown at me out the back of a furniture van (walking down Abington Avenue) following a home cup tie against Blackpool. Never got involved in the P*sh running battles but quite a few unavoidable scrapes in THE.

The most surprised I've been was the friendly West Ham welcome and drank with their fans in the pub before the game (in colours), although gave it a miss after we'd beaten them.  Grin  I guess there was no rivalry with a minnow.

Even through claret tinted specs I don't miss that element of attending games and thankfully knife crime wasn't as prevalent back then.
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« Reply #52 on: June 04, 2021, 10:36:16 am »

I was one of the 942 and while that may have been the only sub 1000 gate, there were several that weren't much higher. I think crowds(?) were hovering around 1200 at the time.
Yes, that week of the Chester game, we had immediately before (or after - can't remember now!) a fixture pile up...to add to the utter dross on the pitch.
We had Hartlepool Utd on something like the Tuesday and Port Vale on the Thursday. Both at the County Ground, with a thin programme to cover both games.
Think 1,109 for Hartlepool and something like 1300 for Vale. If remember, couldn't make the Hartlepool game and car broke down in West Haddon on the way to Vale game...so didn't make that either!
Was one of the 942 at the Chester game though...along with a black cat running around the paddock and around 50 other CATS (Chester Away Travel Service) on the Kop!
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« Reply #53 on: June 04, 2021, 10:54:08 am »

As a true supporters of the Mighty Cobbs I was at that game. As an even morererererer truererererer supporter, I reckon I can say that I also attended our lowest ever supported away game as well.... Albeit a friendly.






The 500 odd for the Leicester City friendly at the County Ground around 91 time?
Took a couple of Leicester fans from Hinckley. Stopped off at the North Star in Kingsthorpe on the way home, I remember!
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« Reply #54 on: June 04, 2021, 11:26:38 am »

The good old days of 80's violence  Roll Eyes
There weren't many grounds you didn't get the run around. From Cardiff to Stoke and even Torquay town centre! The most exposed to getting a kicking I can recall was the Newcastle FA cup tie, absolute nutters (considering they'd won), hence why I never buy into the 'friendly Geordie' tag.
At home I think the Pompey take over was the most terrified I'd been. I was pretty young and didn't fully understand why the Hotel End was full. I also had a petrol bomb thrown at me out the back of a furniture van (walking down Abington Avenue) following a home cup tie against Blackpool. Never got involved in the P*sh running battles but quite a few unavoidable scrapes in THE.

The most surprised I've been was the friendly West Ham welcome and drank with their fans in the pub before the game (in colours), although gave it a miss after we'd beaten them.  Grin  I guess there was no rivalry with a minnow.

Even through claret tinted specs I don't miss that element of attending games and thankfully knife crime wasn't as prevalent back then.
Cardiff was exciting, I couldn’t work out why their Kop to the left of us had emptied out 10 mins before the end, then when we got out I found out they were all waiting for us in the car park, thank god for the old bill.
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« Reply #55 on: June 04, 2021, 11:58:03 am »

Cardiff was exciting, I couldn’t work out why their Kop to the left of us had emptied out 10 mins before the end, then when we got out I found out they were all waiting for us in the car park, thank god for the old bill.


Remember getting legged after the game at The Shay in '77, probably no more than 100 Cobblers fans and 3 of us just about managed to get back to the coach with about 10 Halifax lads in hot pursuit. Also, same year, running battles around the terraces at Tooting and Mitcham in the cup and after the game some nutter threw a heavy steel bin through our coach window, needless to say, he wished he hadn't. Same season on the way back from York stopped at a service station and a load of Leeds fans from the other side of the motorway came over, luckily there were more than a coachload on our coach and many of them were certainly up for it and piled off the coach and piled in. The Leeds fans ran for their lives some of them literally over the motorway, dodging cars. As our coach pulled out of the service station a load more coaches of Leeds fans were pulling into the other side, we were lucky!
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« Reply #56 on: June 04, 2021, 12:03:13 pm »

Yes, that week of the Chester game, we had immediately before (or after - can't remember now!) a fixture pile up...to add to the utter dross on the pitch.
We had Hartlepool Utd on something like the Tuesday and Port Vale on the Thursday. Both at the County Ground, with a thin programme to cover both games.
Think 1,109 for Hartlepool and something like 1300 for Vale. If remember, couldn't make the Hartlepool game and car broke down in West Haddon on the way to Vale game...so didn't make that either!
Was one of the 942 at the Chester game though...along with a black cat running around the paddock and around 50 other CATS (Chester Away Travel Service) on the Kop!

I remember that, I was wokring away at the time and drove back just for the game. I should have known what to expect, but for some reason I still did it.
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« Reply #57 on: June 04, 2021, 12:07:05 pm »

I was one of the 942 and while that may have been the only sub 1000 gate, there were several that weren't much higher. I think crowds(?) were hovering around 1200 at the time.

Me and my mates used to have a quid in the hat for who got closest to the gate, I can remember back then thinking 1,350 and above was a big crowd.
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« Reply #58 on: June 04, 2021, 12:55:49 pm »

I remember that, I was wokring away at the time and drove back just for the game. I should have known what to expect, but for some reason I still did it.

My memory is of reading of the gate in the Daily Telegraph on my way to work on the bus from Clapton Pond to Liverpool Street Station the following morning and thinking this just couldn't go on. The gate money must have been tiny. The stress associated with running the club must have been awful. The County Ground has been the home of some abject misery over the years - the cricket club was the worst in the land for many years prior to WW2.

I seem to remember even lower gates for some football league trophy matches at the CG (possibly Sixfields as well).
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« Reply #59 on: June 04, 2021, 13:22:42 pm »

I was one of the 942 and while that may have been the only sub 1000 gate, there were several that weren't much higher. I think crowds(?) were hovering around 1200 at the time.

Referring to Rothmans there were loads of very poor home gates that season;

2554, 1437, 1653, 1595, 1873, 1864, 2240, 2274, 2523, 4350 (Posh), 1496, 1475, 1860, 1223, 1702, 942, 1264, 1426, 1181, 1311, 1581, 1838, 2350.
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