General Yesteryear

Here is an oddity!

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Judging from the editorial in the programme, this was played on a Thursday in the middle of the league (Division 4) season, between a postponed game at Gillingham and a home game to Lincoln just two days later! I don't know the result (anyone?).

(I've got various unusual programmes and can put scans up if people are interested)
 
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ZeroTheHero said:
Here is an oddity!

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Judging from the editorial in the programme, this was played on a Thursday in the middle of the league (Division 4) season, between a postponed game at Gillingham and a home game to Lincoln just two days later! I don't know the result (anyone?).

(I've got various unusual programmes and can put scans up if people are interested)
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think me Dad may well have taken me to that match, but have no recollection of it whatsoever? the match was a week or so after my 7th birthday! - What i do remember from the 63/64 season was the superb FA cup run ( giantkillers OUFC knocking out Brentford, then the then mighty Blackburn Rovers, finally being beaten 1-2 by PNE in 6th round , by at least one goal which the match officials appeared to not apply the then new-ish offside rule too)... from '62 onwards , in the early 60s my Dad took me to most OUFC matches at the Manor, including most of the reserve games ( football combination)- according rageonline season stats ( the Match corresponding with the programme), wouldve taken place between Easter Monday match on March 30th ( lost at home to Chesterfield 1-2) and a home win V Lincoln on 11th April (2-0).... the rearranged away game with Gillingham was played on wed 15th ( lost 0-2) after playing away to Southport (1-1) 2 days earlier, & 2days after the Lincoln match, on Mon 13th April..... over the easter weekend late March 1964 OUFC played On Good Friday ( 27 March) home VChesterfield (0-0), and on (easter )Sat (march 28) V Aldershot (1-1), as well as on the aforementioned Easter Monday too.... no Info I could find

Be interest in seeing scans of unusual programmes, if theyre OUFC related @ZeroTheHero
 
harringtonsghost said:
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Here's the goal, diving header. Not sure if that's Evo or Steve Aylott watching on but it's Wee Davey Sloan ducking out of the way. Probably Ken Skeen far right, might be Shuker.
Their front line was Best, Law, Charlton and Storey-Moore.
Ours was Sloan, Skeen, Cassidy and Bray. Happy Days.
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Could it be Derek Clarke(centre), Smithson far right?
 
harringtonsghost said:
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Here's the goal, diving header. Not sure if that's Evo or Steve Aylott watching on but it's Wee Davey Sloan ducking out of the way. Probably Ken Skeen far right, might be Shuker.
Their front line was Best, Law, Charlton and Storey-Moore.
Ours was Sloan, Skeen, Cassidy and Bray. Happy Days.
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Definitely Evanson watching on and Shuker far right.
 
1st March 1982 and United appoint Jim Smith as manager - the rest is history.

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Sarge said:
in the London Road end it was cage first then moat ( then the pitch surrounding track-/ then the pitch)... wasnt it?
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Fence & moat arrived at the same time (?) then the mesh stuff to stop coins etc?

Anyone remember the cricket match, University against Somerset with Botham, Garner et al? :) :)
 
Essexyellows said:
Fence & moat arrived at the same time (?) then the mesh stuff to stop coins etc?

Anyone remember the cricket match, University against Somerset with Botham, Garner et al? :) :)
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Installed shortly after the Millwall at Luton pitch invasion/ incident ( leading to a ban on away fans at Kenilworth Road for a number of seasons) , wasnt it? I cant remember the exact quote but Maxwell was blustering and bragging to the media that The Manor was going to be one of the most secure grounds in the country, or something like that?

I dont remember any cricket played at the Manor ( - despite the fact OUFC as HUFC were formed from out of a cricket team in 1893)-

I can remember top International Cricketers/- often touring test squads- playing friendlies against combined Universities at University Parks certainly in the 90s, maybe in the 80s too?
 
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Sarge said:
think me Dad may well have taken me to that match, but have no recollection of it whatsoever? the match was a week or so after my 7th birthday! - What i do remember from the 63/64 season was the superb FA cup run ( giantkillers OUFC knocking out Brentford, then the then mighty Blackburn Rovers, finally being beaten 1-2 by PNE in 6th round , by at least one goal which the match officials appeared to not apply the then new-ish offside rule too)... from '62 onwards , in the early 60s my Dad took me to most OUFC matches at the Manor, including most of the reserve games ( football combination)- according rageonline season stats ( the Match corresponding with the programme), wouldve taken place between Easter Monday match on March 30th ( lost at home to Chesterfield 1-2) and a home win V Lincoln on 11th April (2-0).... the rearranged away game with Gillingham was played on wed 15th ( lost 0-2) after playing away to Southport (1-1) 2 days earlier, & 2days after the Lincoln match, on Mon 13th April..... over the easter weekend late March 1964 OUFC played On Good Friday ( 27 March) home VChesterfield (0-0), and on (easter )Sat (march 28) V Aldershot (1-1), as well as on the aforementioned Easter Monday too.... no Info I could find

Be interest in seeing scans of unusual programmes, if theyre OUFC related @ZeroTheHero
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My memory may not be what it was but i always recall the Preston Goal was about Dawson? shoving our keeper into the goal in a manner that would never be allowed today..Was there not also some photo at the time of our keepers stud marks on the Goal line?
 
horseman said:
My memory may not be what it was but i always recall the Preston Goal was about Dawson? shoving our keeper into the goal in a manner that would never be allowed today..Was there not also some photo at the time of our keepers stud marks on the Goal line?
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Foul on Harry Fearnley ( U's keeper) and their other was an offside goal .... as the very old cliche goes, we were robbed !
 
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Sarge said:
Installed shortly after the Millwall at Luton pitch invasion/ incident ( leading to a ban on away fans at Kenilworth Road for a number of seasons) , wasnt it? I cant remember the exact quote but Maxwell was blustering and bragging to the media that The Manor was going to be one of the most secure grounds in the country, or something like that?

I dont remember any cricket played at the Manor ( - despite the fact OUFC as HUFC were formed from out of a cricket team in 1893)-

I can remember top International Cricketers/- often touring test squads- playing friendlies against combined Universities at University Parks certainly in the 90s, maybe in the 80s too?
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Swindon fans had already given that vote for a number of years that they never bothered trying to enter it :)
 
Essexyellows said:
Fence & moat arrived at the same time (?) then the mesh stuff to stop coins etc?

Anyone remember the cricket match, University against Somerset with Botham, Garner et al? :) :)
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I was doing the score board that summer at the parks. Even got told where to go by Boycott as when he was trundling of after getting out, I stupidly asked for his autograph
 
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