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Think that is when we took around 8,000 to Fulham and took over the place
It ended in Ian Wilson scoring and sending us up
Won’t be so many next Monday but it is the sort of ground where if the 2,500 really get behind the lads
it could make a difference
Need to win this and they have a depleted side , unlike last night we need all eleven players on the pitch
turning up , the fans turned up last night but the players let them down
No more posing on the pitch get the job done 😁
 
Whuru said:
Think that is when we took around 8,000 to Fulham and took over the place
It ended in Ian Wilson scoring and sending us up
Won’t be so many next Monday but it is the sort of ground where if the 2,500 really get behind the lads
it could make a difference
Need to win this and they have a depleted side , unlike last night we need all eleven players on the pitch
turning up , the fans turned up last night but the players let them down
No more posing on the pitch get the job done 😁
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it was 1983
 
Since1972 said:
it was 1983
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The win at Fulham also didn't send us up. We were dependent on Fulham losing their last game of the season at Derby, and even then we had to wait as there was all that controversy over the fact that their game had been abandoned with two minutes to go...
 
What a great day that was apart the massive queues to get in,eventually 20mins after kick off how we caught Fulham up was mad.
 
I lost my car keys when Ian Wilson scored.
 
Whuru said:
Think that is when we took around 8,000 to Fulham and took over the place
It ended in Ian Wilson scoring and sending us up
Won’t be so many next Monday but it is the sort of ground where if the 2,500 really get behind the lads
it could make a difference
Need to win this and they have a depleted side , unlike last night we need all eleven players on the pitch
turning up , the fans turned up last night but the players let them down
No more posing on the pitch get the job done 😁
Click to expand...
nope, the win at fulham didn't.
we needed a result against burnley in the last game to be sure as fulham could still overtake us.
i was in the kop and i remember line-acre hitting the post as the closest we came to scoring, and it finished 0-0, but fulham lost at Derby after the game was abandoned and eventually awarded to Derby.
Nobody knew on the day if we'd gone up or not, it was an anticlimax.
 
That day down in Fulham was one of the best I’ve ever known. Then that pitch invasion after the goalless draw with the Clarets was maybe the weirdest. I even took my Dad onto the pitch, a first for him, and he sauntered round like he was visiting the Botanical Gardens. He didn’t even get to hear Bryan Adams sing The Spirit Of ‘82.
 
It was 83 but as a lad in his early 20's it was fantastic that season under Gordon Milne, but the 1980 season finishing at Orient 3 years earlier takes some beating!
 
Tuz_Not_Tuzz said:
nope, the win at fulham didn't.
we needed a result against burnley in the last game to be sure as fulham could still overtake us.
i was in the kop and i remember line-acre hitting the post as the closest we came to scoring, and it finished 0-0, but fulham lost at Derby after the game was abandoned and eventually awarded to Derby.
Nobody knew on the day if we'd gone up or not, it was an anticlimax.
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I was with the team in the dressing room after the Burnley game. They were certainly celebrating promotion, drinking champagne brought in by club secretary Alan Bennett. It was only when news came through from the Baseball Ground to the ITV crew filming in there did the mood change. I overheard ITV's Bob Hall telling Milne the story from Derby. I sat next to Larry May, and others, to impart the bad news. Gloom decended over the happy throng. No one had a clue as to what would happen next. FB_IMG_1674052129393.jpg
 
That iconic image of a naked Wallington being interviewed by an admiring local Magician also captures Phil Spector, who came up for the match to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of ‘Be My Blaby’.
 
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