[Johnnyspireite7]

martatcross, on 26 April 2016 - 03:50 PM, said:

Bet Fleetwood don't go for it either 😀

Or Morecambe or Preston!

[CFC91]

hardgums, on 26 April 2016 - 03:23 PM, said:

I remember going to Orient when this was all kicking off. They had some saddos sitting in the stand with hand mate CHEAT signs. Nice

Remember those + brown envelopes at Macclesfield and Brighton away not too many years ago still.

[azul]

MDCCCLXVI, on 26 April 2016 - 03:42 PM, said:

York were a major ringleader as their Chairman, Douglas Craig, was a friend of Norton Lea who realised we'd be fu**ed if relegated and could regain control unopposed. The same Douglas Craig, by the way, who placed his club up for sale shortly afterwards demanding an unrealistic price and insisting he'd resign from the FL if no one met it. Birds of a feather?

Then Orient supremo Barry Hearn was his usual understated self, as was fat boy Fry, but ended up backing the fledgling CFSS.

Of course our little neighbours did their best to drag us down to their lowly levels, too.

Top of the tw*ts, however, were Brighton. Their fans plumbed new depths of arrogance and hypocrisy mounting a media crusade to have the book thrown at us - the same Brighton fans who'd repeatedly blubbed and begged for help when faced with Brown-esque owners themselves. Meanwhile our fans, players and even Board were subject to a torrent of abuse and intimidation when visiting their's, to the point where one CFC suit was threatened by one of his Brighton counterparts. Something similar happened to manager Nicky Law...but let's just say the perpetrator was met with a far less civilised response.

Never forget, never forgive.

I remember the Brighton game, the evening of the FL appeal against our penalty when the committee upheld the original decision. Relief tempered the disgust of all things Brighton. As someone earlier said every team we played had a pop, some just more than others.

Not sure they were one of the ring leaders in attempt to expel us though as of course they had just been promoted and it was mainly Div 4 teams that started the campaign.

Pity Tooley doesn't post anyone, he'd have them all in his little black book

[Westbars Spireite]

At least Blackpool fans got a season in the top division out of it.

[calvin plummers socks]

azul, on 26 April 2016 - 03:12 PM, said:

Can anyone actually remember the clubs that were the prime movers in trying to get us expelled from the league at the FL AGM

Seem to remember Hartlepool, Torquay and York for starters although I'm to sure all their fans were in agreement

Burnley, Orient (well Barry Hearn) and the horrible woman who was sports minister at the time- the detestable Kate Hoey

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

Mr Mercury, on 26 April 2016 - 11:43 AM, said:

Send it back with the word "off" somewhere in the message. Likewise if u ever get one from orient, York Torquay Brighton etc etc

If you put the "off" between Oyston and Out, it would probably sum up how much notice he appears to be taking of the protests.

[Westbars Spireite]

Oyston seems to be one of the few people to give less of a shit about Blackpool than I do.

[NOFX]

Hate to say it but the Oyston family simply cashed in by putting their premier league parachute payments in their pocket. Hope our great leader hasn't done anything similar. Most clubs these days are run on a model where the footballing side of things is run as a loss leader for their owners real money making business, from Man United down wards . Having said that hope Blackpool go down😀

Hate to say it but the Oyston family simply cashed in by putting their premier league parachute payments in their pocket. Hope our great leader hasn't done anything similar. Most clubs these days are run on a model where the footballing side of things is run as a loss leader for their owners real money making business, from Man United down wards . Having said that hope Blackpool go down😀

[firedodger]

azul, on 26 April 2016 - 03:57 PM, said:

I remember the Brighton game, the evening of the FL appeal against our penalty when the committee upheld the original decision. Relief tempered the disgust of all things Brighton. As someone earlier said every team we played had a pop, some just more than others.

Not sure they were one of the ring leaders in attempt to expel us though as of course they had just been promoted and it was mainly Div 4 teams that started the campaign.

Pity Tooley doesn't post anyone, he'd have them all in his little black book

Hate Brighton with a passion since those days, remember sitting in the pub waiting to hear our fate before that game and seeing their fans whooping and handing out brown envelopes to wave at us, bunch of ring pieces. Didn't they also unfold a great big brown envelope banner that night?
Was it that game or the following season where they were warming a sub up with specific instructions to go out and kick mark innes out of the game? Nicky Law told him if he did, he would be waiting for him in the tunnel, brilliant, loved Herman.
Oh and Blackpool can go **** themselves as well.

[hilly81]

firedodger, on 27 April 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

Hate Brighton with a passion since those days, remember sitting in the pub waiting to hear our fate before that game and seeing their fans whooping and handing out brown envelopes to wave at us, bunch of ring pieces. Didn't they also unfold a great big brown envelope banner that night?
Was it that game or the following season where they were warming a sub up with specific instructions to go out and kick mark innes out of the game? Nicky Law told him if he did, he would be waiting for him in the tunnel, brilliant, loved Herman.
Oh and Blackpool can go **** themselves as well.

My best memory of Brighton is Jamie Ingledow's last minute winner at Saltergate. Their fans were less than impressed.

[firedodger]

hilly81, on 27 April 2016 - 01:34 PM, said:

My best memory of Brighton is Jamie Ingledow's last minute winner at Saltergate. Their fans were less than impressed.

Indeed they weren't, they delayed me getting to the Neptune trying to scratch people's eyes out on Newbold Road and carrying on.

[Exharboroughspireite]

firedodger, on 27 April 2016 - 01:26 PM, said:

Hate Brighton with a passion since those days, remember sitting in the pub waiting to hear our fate before that game and seeing their fans whooping and handing out brown envelopes to wave at us, bunch of ring pieces. Didn't they also unfold a great big brown envelope banner that night?
Was it that game or the following season where they were warming a sub up with specific instructions to go out and kick mark innes out of the game? Nicky Law told him if he did, he would be waiting for him in the tunnel, brilliant, loved Herman.
Oh and Blackpool can go **** themselves as well.

Was also there that evening; remember it vividly. There were a lot of brown envelopes and yes several large ones that were visible from the away end. I also remember the tannoy playing 'money money money' and 'I fought the law' . Blackpool were in that division that year (they went up through the play offs). Screw them. What goes around comes around.

Absolute inbreds

Telegraph article from the time which confirms most of the division wanted us expelled:-

THE Third Division promotion issues were thrown into confusion yesterday when the Football League's board of directors failed to ratify a recommendation from an independent League panel to punish Chesterfield with a nine-point deduction and £20,000 for breach of regulations.
The decision was prompted by pressure from the majority of the division's chairmen, who believe Chesterfield should be expelled.

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

Exharboroughspireite, on 27 April 2016 - 07:36 PM, said:

Was also there that evening; remember it vividly. There were a lot of brown envelopes and yes several large ones that were visible from the away end. I also remember the tannoy playing 'money money money' and 'I fought the law' . Blackpool were in that division that year (they went up through the play offs). Screw them. What goes around comes around.

Absolute inbreds

Telegraph article from the time which confirms most of the division wanted us expelled:-

THE Third Division promotion issues were thrown into confusion yesterday when the Football League's board of directors failed to ratify a recommendation from an independent League panel to punish Chesterfield with a nine-point deduction and £20,000 for breach of regulations.
The decision was prompted by pressure from the majority of the division's chairmen, who believe Chesterfield should be expelled.

Didn't we then give it them back when they next played at Saltergate by playing It's Raining Men and YMCA etc only to get an FA telling off?

[Walton Spireite]

hilly81, on 27 April 2016 - 01:34 PM, said:

My best memory of Brighton is Jamie Ingledow's last minute winner at Saltergate. Their fans were less than impressed.

I remember celebrating that goal on Compton street. Running down the terrace giving it large.

[Exharboroughspireite]

Ernie Ernie Ernie, on 27 April 2016 - 07:39 PM, said:

Didn't we then give it them back when they next played at Saltergate by playing It's Raining Men and YMCA etc only to get an FA telling off?

Yes I remember that as well; there was also Chester the field mouse waving his backside at the away end before the game