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Post by Davef on Feb 20, 2016 11:53:35 GMT
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Post by werrington on Feb 20, 2016 11:57:37 GMT
I was bouncing around the school yard when this tie got pulled out after despatching Tilbury 4-0
Postponed a few times due to waterlogged pitch before it eventually played
Gutted I was that night
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 20, 2016 12:03:15 GMT
We only played one more game that month because of the weather and that was Alan Durban's first game against Bolton.Time goes so quickly
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Feb 20, 2016 12:34:47 GMT
I was bouncing around the school yard when this tie got pulled out after despatching Tilbury 4-0 Postponed a few times due to waterlogged pitch before it eventually played Gutted I was that night You young sprog. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 13:00:10 GMT
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Post by muglump on Feb 20, 2016 13:27:38 GMT
Thank you for that I thought I'd expunged that from my memory. Still makes me shudder
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Post by kernowstokie1 on Feb 20, 2016 13:37:53 GMT
I remember that game for another reason. During the war my Grandparents had a miner lodging with them from the t'other Newcastle as he had been sent to work in the Stoke coalmines. After the war he returned up north and kept in touch with our family. On a rare away trip to Newcastle in the 1960s we went to visit him after the match in Wallsend, the usual banter took place and his parting words to me were wait until my Blythe Spartans meet your Stoke City in the cup, then we'll see who comes out on top.
He died in the early seventies so never saw that game, I watched it from the old Stoke End and after the game even though we had lost. I couldn't help smiling and looking to the Heavens and saying "OK you old bugger, well done to you and your team "
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 13:39:21 GMT
Bog off Dave . I refuse to open that link.One of my worst memories of watching Stoke
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Post by Northy on Feb 20, 2016 13:42:12 GMT
Why, why, why, would you put this thread up, I now have visions of Roger dropping the ball
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Post by werrington on Feb 20, 2016 13:45:28 GMT
Why, why, why, would you put this thread up, I now have visions of Roger dropping the ball That was Oldham mate |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Feb 20, 2016 13:59:41 GMT
This was the time, in my Stoke supporting life, when I started to doubt we were by far the greatest team the world has ever seen. Shudder indeed! Season tickets and scarfs littering the Boothen End. Shocking!
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Post by RICH68 on Feb 20, 2016 14:44:46 GMT
Remember it well(impossible to forget tbh).
Was that the same season as a draw at home in the league cup against Watford ?
Seemed to me at the time that they had more fans there than we had.
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Post by AlliG on Feb 20, 2016 14:50:01 GMT
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Post by Davef on Feb 20, 2016 15:21:21 GMT
Why, why, why, would you put this thread up, I now have visions of Roger dropping the ball That was Oldham mate Jones dropped the ball against Blyth. It's in the article.  |
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Post by Northy on Feb 20, 2016 15:23:28 GMT
Why, why, why, would you put this thread up, I now have visions of Roger dropping the ball That was Oldham mate No it wasn't - A right wing corner was dropped by the Stoke ‘keeper Roger Jones at the feet of Blyth’s leading scorer Terry Johnson and he gleefully turned the ball home to leave the Boothen End stunned. |
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Post by werrington on Feb 20, 2016 15:23:49 GMT
Jones dropped the ball against Blyth. It's in the article. I haven't read the article mate Didn't he drop it v Oldham in that rearranged game when we lost 1-0 ? I'm sure he did |
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Post by Davef on Feb 20, 2016 15:28:13 GMT
Jones dropped the ball against Blyth. It's in the article. I haven't read the article mate Didn't he drop it v Oldham in that rearranged game when we lost 1-0 ? I'm sure he did No, pretty sure it was a shot from outside the area. |
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Post by werrington on Feb 20, 2016 15:33:00 GMT
I haven't read the article mate Didn't he drop it v Oldham in that rearranged game when we lost 1-0 ? I'm sure he did No, pretty sure it was a shot from outside the area. He definitely fucked up v Oldham also in that game for their goal which was what I was thinking of . Slipped through his fingers ? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 16:00:08 GMT
Fuck I was 16 when that happened. it seems like a couple of years ago  GD |
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 20, 2016 16:03:29 GMT
No, pretty sure it was a shot from outside the area. He definitely fucked up v Oldham also in that game for their goal which was what I was thinking of . Slipped through his fingers ? Slipped through his fingers yes. A hopeful punty long range thing. |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 20, 2016 16:04:45 GMT
I was bouncing around the school yard when this tie got pulled out after despatching Tilbury 4-0 Postponed a few times due to waterlogged pitch before it eventually played Gutted I was that night
Despite what the article says, I'm absolutely convinced that the first game was called off because of SNOW.
I can remember all the Blyth Spartans fans getting off their coaches and there was snow everywhere and thinking to myself, the poor bastards have come all this way and it isn't going to happen.
Or am I just going mental?
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Post by trincostokie on Feb 20, 2016 16:08:07 GMT
I was a young lad of 14, living in Inverness. When that score came through the radio in my mates attic, we were playing darts and listening to ELO's Mr. Blue.
The memory is as vivid today as it was at the time...total shame, and the knowledge that I was going to be verbally arse-raped by all my Scottish-team-supporting mates for years to come.
the reality was that they forgot about it soon enough but it took me about 3 years to start to enjoy the bloody FA cup again.
Confront your fears they say...so here's a bit of Mr. Blue...ELO's finest.
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Post by werrington on Feb 20, 2016 16:15:26 GMT
I was bouncing around the school yard when this tie got pulled out after despatching Tilbury 4-0 Postponed a few times due to waterlogged pitch before it eventually played Gutted I was that night
Despite what the article says, I'm absolutely convinced that the first game was called off because of SNOW.
I can remember all the Blyth Spartans fans getting off their coaches and there was snow everywhere and thinking to myself, the poor bastards have come all this way and it isn't going to happen.
Or am I just going mental?
It was deffo heavy rain mate |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 20, 2016 16:17:51 GMT
Despite what the article says, I'm absolutely convinced that the first game was called off because of SNOW.
I can remember all the Blyth Spartans fans getting off their coaches and there was snow everywhere and thinking to myself, the poor bastards have come all this way and it isn't going to happen.
Or am I just going mental?
It was deffo heavy rain mate
Wow I must have had this false memory in my mind all these years Mick ... weird one!
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Post by cooper67 on Feb 20, 2016 16:20:48 GMT
I was 10.
After seeing us stuff Tilbury at home I was convinced Blyth would as easily be put to the sword-how wrong I was.
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Post by ChesterStokie on Feb 20, 2016 16:21:19 GMT
It was deffo heavy rain mate
Wow I must have had this false memory in my mind all these years Mick ... weird one!
Are you getting confused with the Oldham game that called off at half time due to snow/ice on the pitch? |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 20, 2016 16:24:03 GMT
Wow I must have had this false memory in my mind all these years Mick ... weird one!
Are you getting confused with the Oldham game that called off at half time due to snow/ice on the pitch?
No mate.
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Post by muglump on Feb 20, 2016 16:25:40 GMT
I remember a load of Stoke fans throwing their scarves in the canal. It was such a disaster, there was even more of a difference then between league and non league. They really were a team of painters and decorators
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 16:38:19 GMT
Wow I must have had this false memory in my mind all these years Mick ... weird one!
Are you getting confused with the Oldham game that called off at half time due to snow/ice on the pitch? That game had an orange ball GD |
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Post by banksy on Feb 20, 2016 16:46:05 GMT
The only vivid memory I have of that game is looking along the row of seats I was in and seeing Jimmy Greenhoff sitting with his head in his hands.
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