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homer said:
God I loved that game..
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We absolutely shithoused them. And then scored one of the best team goals in ages. The cross from Grayson was pornographic.

Ormo, Walshy and Roberts up front. No midfield worthy of the name. Coatsworth, Willis, Whitlow lumping it clear for 90 minutes.

It was beautiful, genuinely.
 
That was such a big moment for us as a club. 3rd final in a row, 7th Wembley appearance. Makeshift XI for the last few weeks of that season.

having never experienced us in any cup finals or even semi-finals, those matches were the first “big games” we’d played in my lifetime, where we being properly discussed in the build up to game on national TV.
 
That is a list of the people I grew up with.
 
Orifice said:
That is a list of the people I grew up with.
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Same here.

& when you look at it you can see what he meant about the frustration he felt toward the board.
He said he was 3 players short of a team that could challenge to win the league & they wouldn't OK the money. Always the Leicester problem back then. A parochial board who regarded the club as their personal asset & didn't have any ambition. The Bloors, Shipman's et al of this world who were just nice & cosy with a club in the top 2 divisions back in a time when the gap between them was pretty negligible. Nice meal & a drink or 2 on matchdays, entertain their business clients for the day & that'll do nicely thanks.

At the start of the 70s we were more or less on a par with Derby & streets ahead of Forest in terms of resources, by the end of that decade they'd won the ****ing league 3 times between them & we were clawing our way back into the top flight exactly as we had been 10 years earlier despite having had some of the most talented players in the country turning out for us in between.

****ing sinful to be honest. The success we've had in the last few years is overdue payback for that wasted era in my mind.

& apparently one of the 3 players he wanted was a young Palace winger named Peter Taylor.

His legacy at this club could have been very different !
 
give_us_a_wave said:
Same here.

& when you look at it you can see what he meant about the frustration he felt toward the board.
He said he was 3 players short of a team that could challenge to win the league & they wouldn't OK the money. Always the Leicester problem back then. A parochial board who regarded the club as their personal asset & didn't have any ambition. The Bloors, Shipman's et al of this world who were just nice & cosy with a club in the top 2 divisions back in a time when the gap between them was pretty negligible. Nice meal & a drink or 2 on matchdays, entertain their business clients for the day & that'll do nicely thanks.

At the start of the 70s we were more or less on a par with Derby & streets ahead of Forest in terms of resources, by the end of that decade they'd won the ****ing league 3 times between them & we were clawing our way back into the top flight exactly as we had been 10 years earlier despite having had some of the most talented players in the country turning out for us in between.

****ing sinful to be honest. The success we've had in the last few years is overdue payback for that wasted era in my mind.

& apparently one of the 3 players he wanted was a young Palace winger named Peter Taylor.

His legacy at this club could have been very different !
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Still looks much like the tried and tested Shipman cheapskate method, import Jocks, but Londoners this time around. My memory is that all JB's signings bar the "Danny Ward" of his day, Mark Wallington, were mature, seasoned 25+ proven pros, but checking, Frankie Wortho and most unlikely from his "Sid James' looks, Dennis Rofe were a couple of years younger at time of signing.
 
Ike O'Noclassed said:
Still looks much like the tried and tested Shipman cheapskate method, import Jocks, but Londoners this time around. My memory is that all JB's signings bar the "Danny Ward" of his day, Mark Wallington, were mature, seasoned 25+ proven pros, but checking, Frankie Wortho and most unlikely from his "Sid James' looks, Dennis Rofe were a couple of years younger at time of signing.
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Well, Wallington may have been Danny Ward when he got here but I doubt Ward will turn out to be anything like the value Wallington was. Definitely got our money's worth from Mark. 30 grand for 14 years service & over 450 games.

I can still remember how utterly weird it was standing behind the goal & him not being there after watching him standing between those posts for so many years.
 
give_us_a_wave said:
Well, Wallington may have been Danny Ward when he got here but I doubt Ward will turn out to be anything like the value Wallington was. Definitely got our money's worth from Mark. 30 grand for 14 years service & over 450 games.

I can still remember how utterly weird it was standing behind the goal & him not being there after watching him standing between those posts for so many years.
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Was the Shrewsbury cup game something like Mark Wallingtons 333rd concecutive game?
 
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