Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
Thanks UTM. I keep trying to look at your site but it stalls/stops.

We sort of stormed out of Div 4 (along with Walsall) and then looked like going straight up until a blip over Easter. If felt to me as if that sapped a lot of energy and enthusiasm out of all involved. All my mates were going over the river, I felt pretty much a lone voice, well, with my Dad.

I was mostly away from '65 onwards so only got snippets of news and to occasional matches and now memories are a bit dim and confused.
The financial issues might even have been rooted in the record British transfer fee we paid for Lawton in 1947 (£1 million in today's money). Jackie Sewell was sold within a year after promotion despite the huge gates and protests from the fans, and Lawton followed him out of the door a year after that, which implies they were struggling to balance the books. It must have been hugely disappointing that we only once managed to crack the top 10 in tier 2 in the 1950s before sinking back down again, having beaten Fword into getting promoted out of tier 3.