I'm currently going through the 1969 editions of The Big Match, watching one a week, and Crickmore had popped up a couple of times playing for Derby County. I must say the atmosphere at The Baseball Ground sounded absolutely sensational and it was interesting to see in the last game I watched players surrounding the referee and getting into his face as well a full on fist fight in the crowd in an earlier match being described by a commentator, so things were already getting tasty before the notorious aggro in the 1970s began. I also mentioned on another thread a goalkeeper knocking out a player with a single punch to the head, for which he was merely booked.
Watching these old programmes, I do always begin to imagine how great it would have been to have footage of Notts in the top flight during this period with the likes of Best, the Charlton brothers, Law, Super Mac etc. playing on the Meadow Lane pitch. The viewing figures were enormous at the time, so for clubs who were successful in the 1960s and 1970s, their legendary status seems to be solidified nationally (Derby, Leeds, Fword) in a way that clubs like Huddersfield and Portsmouth aren't, despite the latter being the great sides of their generation.
We really missed out on something special by being at such a low ebb at that time and only recovering when it was too late.