Remember when we couldn’t buy a win about 45 years ago and then we suddenly beat Spurs 8-2?
Well...that’s not going to happen...but, with Cocu and Morris both having to self isolate and given the misfortune they both seem to have been dogged by, I think tomorrow - just to rub salt into the wounds - we’ll see our biggest win at PP since Blackburn early last March.
Not sure who’ll be in charge and certainly hope Buchanan is back. I’ll go..against the odds...a 4-1 first home win.
No, not as dire as now you’re right, but I think it was our first home league win, maybe first league win of any sort, and it was at about the same stage of the season if memory serves. Tbh, I don’t think I’d even started work back then and was just an occasional spectator at the BBG so your recollection is probably more accurate.
Last edited by ramAnag; 06-11-2020 at 07:45 PM.
October 1976, so 44 years have just flown by. University for both of us I guess. featured that rarity of the once a year goal by colin todd if i remember well
only if by that statement, Andy, you are a Stoke, Sunderland or Spurs fan? Derby finished an uncomfortable 15th 3 points clear of the drop
I remember it well, 3-2 up at half time and if I remember it correctly, we scored 5 goals in a 15 minute spell early in the second half.
I remember fearing for my life on the journey home to Brum, sharing a train with a number of not very happy Spurs fans, I can still remember hearing them chop up the train with a fire axe, whilst I was hiding in a compartment full of old people.
You were right RA, it was our first win of that season, just a few months after just missing out on the double. Shortly after Mackay asked for a vote of confidence off the board, but didn't get it. I wonder how our history may have changed, had they backed him?
Game 10 of the season. 5 draws and 4 defeats in the opening 9 legale games. The previous game had been a 5-1 drubbing at St Andrews.
Spurs went 0-2 up and it looked bleak....... then 4 from Rioch, 2 from George, 1 from Rod Thomas and the 8th from Toddy. 8-2.
Not a vintage season though and things didn't get better for quite a while..... 7 years later we were playing in Division 3....
Before I heard that Cocu was away from the team I'd have gone for a 5-1 defeat. Now I'm thinking maybe a 1-1 draw.