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Amen to all that…..Allan Brown was the first manager I (vaguely) remember, but Ian McNeill was the first I properly related to and of course he came back to lead us into league football.
A key factor influencing this club’s development.Nuneaton, was that a home game ? …..Tony Kelly left us (for the first time) towards the end of the 85/86 season and we certainly blew a great promotion chance the season after we’d won
The Freight Rover at Wembley the previous June
5th April 1986 we lost at home to Doncaster 0-1……Whether that was the game he missed the Penalty or not I can’t be certain …..I’m sure he was shipped out immediately afterwards as there was obviously something going on behind the scenes with other players and/or the Manager. The old transfer deadline was in March but I think someone covered earlier that this transfer was somehow fiddled after the deadline.
Any road over 30 years and about ‘five stones’ ago for me so can’t be exact about everything…..he was still a blinder though !Nuneaton is on the money in that we did indeed blow promotion “….and in so doing around March time in a home game which I believe we lost1-0 …..Tony Kelly snatched the ball from Warren Aspinall I think when we were awarded a penalty…. and he then fluffed it …..there seemed to be something amiss on the field between the players before and after that incident and after that game TK was shipped out to Stoke in a hurry.
After being sold on by Stoke to WBA he got involved in a scrap during a pre season trip to Spain or somewhere like that with Don Goodman ….( who pops up commentating presenting on Sky now and again these days ) and that was the end of him there …. off to Shrewsbury for a good while until Bolton took him on and he had his biggest successes there (sadly)Tyldesley, that was 10 years beyond his first spell…..I was gutted when he left for Stoke, then WBA I think, then ended up at Shrewsbury before Bolton signed him and I was
Equally gutted that he featured in Boltons great FA Cup wins at both Highbury and Anfield ….he ran the game at Arsenal and I think he scored one of his
Trademark free kicks.
In fairness he always carried weight but couldn’t get away with it when he was the wrong side of 30….. had he bin a couple of stones lighter he may well have lit up Goodson
as he was a die hard Evertonian…. tragedy is he’s a cult figure at Bolton now !One of my all time favourites…. highly gifted, if he’d liked training as much as he liked lager he’d have played at the highest level….brilliant player
“He’s fat, he’s round, he’s worth a million pound …Tony K Tony K
(That fantasy fee dates him a bit !)
Probably on to something there Otter
I pre date the Gordon Milne era (though not by much) …..but if he was a season ticket holder since those days it’s difficult to understand him being ‘sniffy’ about third tier football ? As we played below that level ….and no higher than that level for 35 years after his supposed circa 1970 debut ?Home supporters had/have the option of paying around £200 for 23 home games. Anyone intending to go to more than 10 games would be daft not to have taken up the offer.
Absolutely correct
Anyone booing their team for any reason (assuming they’re over 12 years old) needs to be embarrassed.
Personally I’d have been happy for Power to have got his move because although he’s genuinely a 100% player, I don’t think he’s especially good, that said I’d never boo a Wigan player.Remember him scoring in the first 10 minutes at Deepdale, where just about nothing happened for the remaining 80 minutes on what I think
Was their crap plastic pitch ?Compare and contrast
when Bobby Charlton, survivor of the Munich air crash, England record cap holder, record England goal scorer, record club goal scorer, European Cup Winner (actually playing in the game and scoring twice rather than getting off his arse and slipping his kit on for the medal presentation like some desperate ‘Muttley’) …..well in his last game and BEFORE the kick off…. a presentation on the pitch (actually I think that was at Stamford Bridge) a silver cig box, a polite round of applause and then they got on with the match… job done.And ‘Captain, Leader, Legend’ has to effectively stop the game for some artificial dog and pony show complete with misty eyes and a guard of honour.
Christ on a bike, a good centre half and a good club servant no doubt but ‘owd on a bit…….Thank heaven these multi millionaires don’t take themselves too seriously, not precious at all
Well, following yesterday’s failure, that guarantees them an 11h consecutive season in the bottom two divisions, so maybe they would.
It’s time for us to admit it. We are terrible, no prospect of ever getting back to former glories and the town isn’t interested.
there’s the distinct whiff of ‘gravy on cheap polyester’ knocking about
Only got 20,000 ave in our first Prem season where we had a few 25,000 sell outs …. partly due to novelty, partly due to born and bred Wiganers going into the home ends with their Utd/Liverpool/Everton affiliation under wraps …..and of course a very healthy away following which maybe averaged 3,000 that season.
Thereafter the Prem averages were more like 17/18K……I reckon we only really had 14-16,000 regulars during that time…..We’ve lost just over a third since then……not 10,000
