Reply With QuoteThe 4-1 thrashing wasn’t in Tranmere, though of course it was against Tranmere at Meadow Lane. I remember someone moaning about young McManus letting in a goal, ending an impressive run of home clean sheets.
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Present and correct at Home Park.
Dave Needham was the unlikely recipient of the goalkeeping gloves - and I thought he donned them for most of the second half of a mid-day kick off.
It always seemed odd to me that we finished the season with three successive home games,without fixture re-arrangement. But that was some second half of the season : after the defeat at Scunny on Dec. 23 left us in 17 th with a record of 8-5-10,the remaining fixtures yielded a run of 15-6-2.
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The 4-1 thrashing wasn’t in Tranmere, though of course it was against Tranmere at Meadow Lane. I remember someone moaning about young McManus letting in a goal, ending an impressive run of home clean sheets.
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Yeah I think it was thir**** clean sheets on the trot.Originally Posted by applepie2
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Tranmere would have been 13.
There was also the near elimination of Sunderland,eventual winners,in the Cup third round - old boy Dave Watson netting their leveller on 79 minutes.
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12 home league consecutive clean sheets, a club record that still stands today.
That 1973 game against Tranmere would probably be in the top 5 greatest days in Meadow Lane history. Arguably only the win against Fword in 1950 to secure the 3rd tier title and promotion betters it. What we don't have from 1950 however is a lasting record of that achievement in terms of a series of photographs, 1973 is well documented in that respect which captures the euphoria - both on the pitch as well as behind the scenes - perfectly.
The 50th anniversary of that historic day is on Friday. The following Friday is the 100th anniversary of what has to be the club's most dramatic and greatest promotion/title win of all time, though as there's not been anybody around to remember it for some years, it's largely been forgotten and overlooked - which is a travesty. It was an incredible set of circumstances that will probably never be matched, at least not at that level.
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The omens are good, every 50 years there’s great drama. Lump on Notts for the title.
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I was at The game There were Three or four of us from Long Eaton we got in touch with county to ask is The train could stop at Long Eaton station as The train was going That way,they did stop for us but The downside was no Seats left so it was The guards van all The way.Happy memories of The football specials following Notts
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When was the last Notts 'football special' train other than for Wembley trips? I remember seeing one advertised for the Ass Members Semi-final at Wolves in 1988 and thought about it, but as it was a night match I backed out. Only game I ever went to on the train was at Wolves later that same year, but that was on a regular service (changing at Birmingham New Street). It has to be the best and most romantic way to get to games, but must be very expensive now and not practical in many cases with so many grounds now out of town.
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Great question. One of the last ones I can remember getting was to Watford when they opened a new station especially for Vicarage Road (seem to recall a weird route to the ground via allotments). We lost 3-1 in Sept. 1983.
The station was called Watford Stadium Halt and acquired the great nickname of “Hooligan Halt”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watfor...ailway_station
The last one for me was Huddersfield away in Jan 1984 - FA Cup fourth round. Raining cats and dogs while we were stood on an open terrace and we won 2-1.
Cup games always seemed to get a railway special - remember a particularly memorable one at Leicester in 1982 at Filbert Street. There was a ground with a decent away end - covered and always full for a local derby.
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