[warfey is a spireite]

Yes I was there 39000 correct lost 1-0 in front of 39000 where we took the holte end lol

[tomjoad]

 Alice Cooper, on 22 August 2023 - 04:42 PM, said:

Hi Andy thanks for that. I wasn't sure if it was 2-0 or 2-1 but what I do remember was that overhead kick of Ernies. I don't think I've ever seen a better one. You're right it was the Tivoli end that the flag was thrown into cos I was stood in that end. I used to work with a chap named Keith about 25 years ago and he always claimed he was that flag thrower that day. Nobody ever believed it was him though as he was well known for being a Walter Mitty.

It wasnt him!
I do know who it was mind.

[Alice Cooper]

 tomjoad, on 22 August 2023 - 05:49 PM, said:

It wasnt him!
I do know who it was mind.

I always knew deep down it wasn't him. Thanks for confirming it mate. He was known at work as Billy Liar. It's bugged me for over 25 years lol.

[clarevoyant.]

 warfey is a spireite, on 22 August 2023 - 05:40 PM, said:

Yes I was there 39000 correct lost 1-0 in front of 39000 where we took the holte end lol

And King Ern had a perfectly good goal disallowed minutes before they scored. And still it goes on ����.


Oh and I think Phil Tingay made his debut 3 or 4 days earlier at Eastville.

The Villa game had been postponed earlier in the year thus the rearranged fixture. We found out of the postponement just as we were setting off, so had a bus trip round a few derbyshire hostelries. Unfortunately one of our mob was working in Manchester and went direct with a view of returning on the coach. He got a taxi from New Street as he paid the taxi driver at Villa Park the taxi driver said as he drove away "I don't know why you've come here, the games off" leaving him with only enough cash to get in the none game. RIP Trev

This post has been edited by clarevoyant.: 22 August 2023 - 06:15 PM

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

 HoneyTrippa, on 21 August 2023 - 06:30 AM, said:

Can you imagine if 1970's Geslers Skinheads and the later 1980's casuals were around in W7 on Saturday. Oh Dear !!

I sat in W7 a few times last season and there are a few characters from the past that sit in there that you still wouldn’t want to mess with them

[Alice Cooper]

 clarevoyant., on 22 August 2023 - 06:13 PM, said:

And King Ern had a perfectly good goal disallowed minutes before they scored. And still it goes on ����.


Oh and I think Phil Tingay made his debut 3 or 4 days earlier at Eastville.

The Villa game had been postponed earlier in the year thus the rearranged fixture. We found out of the postponement just as we were setting off, so had a bus trip round a few derbyshire hostelries. Unfortunately one of our mob was working in Manchester and went direct with a view of returning on the coach. He got a taxi from New Street as he paid the taxi driver at Villa Park the taxi driver said as he drove away "I don't know why you've come here, the games off" leaving him with only enough cash to get in the none game. RIP Trev

OMG mate. The poor lad. If it wasn't so tragic it would have been funny.

[clarevoyant.]

 Alice Cooper, on 22 August 2023 - 06:20 PM, said:

OMG mate. The poor lad. If it wasn't so tragic it would have been funny.

Oh, it was funny and he certainly dined (well drank) out on it a few times.

[Alice Cooper]

 clarevoyant., on 22 August 2023 - 06:26 PM, said:

Oh, it was funny and he certainly dined (well drank) out on it a few times.

I'm sure he did mate and who could blame him?

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

 HoneyTrippa, on 21 August 2023 - 06:30 AM, said:

Can you imagine if 1970's Geslers Skinheads and the later 1980's casuals were around in W7 on Saturday. Oh Dear !!

I sat in W7 a few times last season and there are a few characters from the past that sit in there that you still wouldn’t want to mess with them

[Bobby Darling]

 clarevoyant., on 22 August 2023 - 06:13 PM, said:

And King Ern had a perfectly good goal disallowed minutes before they scored. And still it goes on ����.


Oh and I think Phil Tingay made his debut 3 or 4 days earlier at Eastville.

The Villa game had been postponed earlier in the year thus the rearranged fixture. We found out of the postponement just as we were setting off, so had a bus trip round a few derbyshire hostelries. Unfortunately one of our mob was working in Manchester and went direct with a view of returning on the coach. He got a taxi from New Street as he paid the taxi driver at Villa Park the taxi driver said as he drove away "I don't know why you've come here, the games off" leaving him with only enough cash to get in the none game. RIP Trev

More than 39,000. Attendance was 45,567. Villa received the 3rd Division Champions trophy. Ian Ross chipped Tingay. You're right he made his debut the game before at Bristol Rovers. It was a Friday night and I think the Cup Final was the next day. From memory I went on the Tube Works bus who ran a coach to every away game.
Team (checked in Rothmans): Tingay, Holmes, Tiler, Bell, Stott, Phelan, Wilson, McHale, Archer, Moss, Randall (his penultimate game for Town). Bruce Rioch played for them.

[Alice Cooper]

 Bobby Darling, on 23 August 2023 - 06:52 PM, said:

More than 39,000. Attendance was 45,567. Villa received the 3rd Division Champions trophy. Ian Ross chipped Tingay. You're right he made his debut the game before at Bristol Rovers. It was a Friday night and I think the Cup Final was the next day. From memory I went on the Tube Works bus who ran a coach to every away game.
Team (checked in Rothmans): Tingay, Holmes, Tiler, Bell, Stott, Phelan, Wilson, McHale, Archer, Moss, Randall (his penultimate game for Town). Bruce Rioch played for them.

And what a Chesterfield team that was. They more than held their own for many seasons in that old third division after being promoted in 1970 didn't they? You didn't happen to work at the Tube Works around that time by any chance did you Bobby?

[calvin plummers socks]

 tomjoad, on 22 August 2023 - 04:02 PM, said:

Won 2.1 Ernies overhead kick.The corner flag was launched into the Tivoli end.Know the lad but not seen him for a while.
Town had both ends came across pitch afterwards.Probably led by Pete Ellis lol.Grassmoor mob were a handful

Don’t tell Clarevoyant- it’s probably where Solihull got the idea?

[Alice Cooper]

 calvin plummers socks, on 23 August 2023 - 08:48 PM, said:

Don’t tell Clarevoyant- it’s probably where Solihull got the idea?

Well if you were to compare those two occurrences to an Olympic javelin event the Spireite fan would have won gold while the Solihull or should I say Villa fan wouldn't have got anywhere near the podium.