paulhanley

No worries at all! They need to be shared.

Half time lasted 10 minutes, games over with before 4:45pm on a Saturday and back to the car in time for James Alexander Gordon reading out the results. A lot less palaver and ego involved.

Just seemed easier to do in those days. You're right though - let's hope!

It's striking just how solid our away followings were at a low point in our history and even for night matches at distance. Cheaper petrol, £1 a pint. Happier times!

No worries, I'm enjoying posting them for the very people who'll appreciate them. I'll do another tomorrow if I can and then get back on the case next week.

We soon got him in to aimlessly hoofing it down field. Scored a few long rangers early in his days with us, to be fair.

Aye - Dave might sound subdued because the sound is so poor. It was odd with Phil Neal .... the more he played the more we seemed to drag him down to our level! 🙂 He was, of course, very much getting on in footballing terms. But he still managed to carry on playing until about 1989!

Back to 1985/6 with this post. March 1986: Lincoln 1 Bolton 1 at Sincil Bank. Phil Neal was in his fourth month in charge and scored a screamer ... but was then jointly to blame with Dave Felgate for the equaliser. Seems to be a decent Wanderers following for a night match and we're playing in the sky blue third kit!

Back to 1985/6 with this post. March 1986: Lincoln 1 Bolton 1 at Sincil Bank. Phil Neal was in his fourth month in charge and scored a screamer ... but was then jointly to blame with Dave Felgate for the equaliser. Seems to be a decent Wanderers following for a night match and we're playing in the sky blue third kit!

It certainly was and I have that Chester away game. I'd not thought of posting it because it finished as a goalless draw. Unbelievable conditions!

Think that 84/5. Was about 16th or 17th I think. It was the year we never picked up a single point away from home until about Feb!

Not in his and Anna Soubry's world it isn't. In their world votes and referendums can be annulled/reversed/ignored if they don't like the outcome. Banana republic stuff.

We can't remain in the EU. The referendum result was to leave. You're either a democrat or you aren't. You aren't.

No worries. Only born in 87. Just in time for the upturn in fortunes!

The goals definitely dried up, especially after Christmas. Phil Neal's answer to ongoing problems seemed to be to keep it tight. We conceded far fewer goals than the rest of the bottom 8 or 9 that year and were involved in lots of 0-0 draws. In previous years we'd been quite free scoring and conceded a good few. The latter formula got us to points totals in the 50s and safety between 84 and 86, the former dragged us down those few places in to the danger zone in 87!

Aye. Elliott had a decent career before arriving at Bolton. My memory is that Phil Neal signed him in Summer 86 with some of the proceeds of getting to Wembley v Bristol City. Was very average for us before going off to Bury - and inevitably scoring against us.

This evening's posting is a match I remember more than anything for being utterly drenched before, after and throughout! An October game at home to Chester in 86/7 with a gale force wind blowing in over the Embankment and in to the Lever End. One of those occasions when long clearances and goal kicks swirl up and slow in the wind and sometimes even go partially back from whence they came. This was a 1-1 draw - strangely both goals (ours by Steve Elliott) scored in to the teeth of the wind. Horrible conditions to be outdoors - never mind watching and playing football!

This evening's posting is a match I remember more than anything for being utterly drenched before, after and throughout! An October game at home to Chester in 86/7 with a gale force wind blowing in over the Embankment and in to the Lever End. One of those occasions when long clearances and goal kicks swirl up and slow in the wind and sometimes even go partially back from whence they came. This was a 1-1 draw - strangely both goals (ours by Steve Elliott) scored in to the teeth of the wind. Horrible conditions to be outdoors - never mind watching and playing football!

Funny isn't it. They seek to shut down free speech by labelling people they disagree with as extreme. They seek to bulldoze over referendum results. And yet they think of themselves as the mainstream and the moderates. It is their screechy virtue signalling world view or you're beyond the pale. We didn't have their number before 2016. But my goodness we do now.

Plenty more of to come. Pointless it going unseen and gathering dust here.

There's loads of that Burnley game on you tube - not one of my postings and far more professional a job as a result. Not a good day to be a lazy copper....

😂 Even the Burnden ball boys were lawless!

I've got that Doncaster home game. Grim - as you remember! Horrible night. All the results went for us that day and we still couldn't raise our game. Redfearn it was. That Mansfield game is a year too early to have been filmed but I sulked badly after that too. Ian Greaves got one over on us there!

Last one this week - more next. Wolves went up as Champions in the season we were promoted from Div 4. In early October a late John Thomas penalty at Burnden was the only goal of the game and the three points were ours. They hammered us at Wolves in the New Year (a game that wasn't filmed). Here's the JT Pen and the lead up to it. The Wolves fans were banned from travelling away at this time due to their antics on the road. My memory is that a few did turn up and make a fuss in the Burnden Stand - others will no doubt know if there was more serious bother

Last one this week - more next. Wolves went up as Champions in the season we were promoted from Div 4. In early October a late John Thomas penalty at Burnden was the only goal of the game and the three points were ours. They hammered us at Wolves in the New Year (a game that wasn't filmed). Here's the JT Pen and the lead up to it. The Wolves fans were banned from travelling away at this time due to their antics on the road. My memory is that a few did turn up and make a fuss in the Burnden Stand - others will no doubt know if there was more serious bother.