August 18, 201610 yr I have a distinct recollection of watching the Wanderers playing a 5th Round FA Cup match against non-League Barrow, around 1979/1981, the Barrow fans filling the Manny Rd side of the Embankment, really packed. Crisp early Jan. day, sunny but cold, and we won 1-0. Except it never happened, at least I can't see it in any fixture list. I might be remembering the Everton game (boxing day?) and jumbling it about - except the Paddock were I usually stood was full and I had to stand on the Embankment for the one and only time. 1-1, we played in Red at home, orange ball, abandoned at half time, the George Wood incident..... Another one I might have made up is a game where it was so foggy you couldn't see the Embankment end goal (I was a Lever Ender then - left side) and when we scored it was like a Mexican wave roar....
August 18, 201610 yr We beat barrow 1-0 in about 1990 - I think Philliskirk scored, F.A Cup 3rd round. The foggy night match might well have been Burnley in the freight rover trophy - Paul Allan scored, game abandoned at half time. I need to get out more
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August 18, 201610 yr Author We beat barrow 1-0 in about 1990 - I think Philliskirk scored, F.A Cup 3rd round. The foggy night match might well have been Burnley in the freight rover trophy - Paul Allan scored, game abandoned at half time. I need to get out more I stopped going in about 1986 after a 4-1 home defeat by Bristol City, only got tempted back by the Rioch resurgence so I never saw that 1990 game.
August 18, 201610 yr Everton game was a farce. Snowed all morning. Shouldn't have started. Then Peter Reid broke his leg. Match abandoned. Following season Bolton were in severe finacial difficultys.( see nowt new ). Wolves put £800000 on the table And Reid wouldn't go. Screwed us big style. Knock on effect was Normid.!!! Edited August 18, 201610 yr by embankment
August 18, 201610 yr I have a distinct memory of Burn den Terrace singing Bohemian Rhapsody in its entirety including the guitar solo while I was sat in the Great Lever end in the year I had my first season ticket which I'm guessing was about 1991/92. It was a night match and I think we were losing at the time. To this day nobody can corroborate my tale!
August 18, 201610 yr Author Everton game was a farce. Snowed all morning. Shouldn't have started. Then Peter Reid broke his leg. Match abandoned. Following season Bolton were in severe finacial difficultys.( see nowt new ). Wolves put £800000 on the table And Reid wouldn't go. Screwed us big style. Knock on effect was Normid.!!! Then Everton offered us £600,000 for Reidy, we wanted more, went to tribunal and they set the fee at £60,000! We refused, Reidy refused to play, until he agreed to go on a week-to-week, to boos and chants of 'Judas'. Not sure what happened next but I was there at Barnsley when he broke his leg again, in a 3-0 defeat. Heard it snap. Did he resign for us later?
August 18, 201610 yr Then Everton offered us £600,000 for Reidy, we wanted more, went to tribunal and they set the fee at £60,000! We refused, Reidy refused to play, until he agreed to go on a week-to-week, to boos and chants of 'Judas'. Not sure what happened next but I was there at Barnsley when he broke his leg again, in a 3-0 defeat. Heard it snap. Did he resign for us later? Don't think there was a tribunal. Pretty sure we let home go for 60k of our own free will.
August 18, 201610 yr This is how I remember it. Arsenal offered £600k Wolves £350k. Ready wanted to go to Wolves (bigger signing on fee) . Tribunal set it at £500k Wolves backed out, Reidy got injured and ended up selling to Everton for £60k. Bolton £500k in debt and sold their souls to Normid.
August 18, 201610 yr Author This is how I remember it. Arsenal offered £600k Wolves £350k. Ready wanted to go to Wolves (bigger signing on fee) . Tribunal set it at £500k Wolves backed out, Reidy got injured and ended up selling to Everton for £60k. Bolton £500k in debt and sold their souls to Normid. I certainly remember Reidy coming out of all this as a bit a greedy twat - wasn't there a headline in the BEN or a chant of 'Greedy Reidy'? Shame cos he was dead popular before that, met him on a 'SuperWhite Night' c 1976 at what is now The Roundhouse up Halliwell. Think it was North Ward Reform Club back then. Anyone remember SuperWhite Nights?
August 18, 201610 yr I certainly remember Reidy coming out of all this as a bit a greedy twat - wasn't there a headline in the BEN or a chant of 'Greedy Reidy'? Shame cos he was dead popular before that, met him on a 'SuperWhite Night' c 1976 at what is now The Roundhouse up Halliwell. Think it was North Ward Reform Club back then. Anyone remember SuperWhite Nights? Difficult to say who was right but if he had gone to Arsenal, we could have written off the debt, Normid wouldn't have been built ( a roof over the Embankment was proposed) and our history would have taken a different course. At the time, he was definitely the 'bad guy' in the whole sorry episode.
August 18, 201610 yr Author Difficult to say who was right but if he had gone to Arsenal, we could have written off the debt, Normid wouldn't have been built ( a roof over the Embankment was proposed) and our history would have taken a different course. At the time, he was definitely the 'bad guy' in the whole sorry episode. I remember seeing the plans in the BEN for the roofed-over Embankment, proper architects drawing so it much have been seriously mooted. Miss Burnden but now with hindsight wouldn't like to have seen it modernised and changed beyond recognition.... Another false memory probably, was there a plan to turn the pitch 90 degrees and extend over St Peters Way? Or was that my teenage overactive imagination? Designing football grounds rather than wanking and shagging? And drinking.
August 18, 201610 yr This is how I remember it. Arsenal offered £600k Wolves £350k. Ready wanted to go to Wolves (bigger signing on fee) . Tribunal set it at £500k Wolves backed out, Reidy got injured and ended up selling to Everton for £60k. Bolton £500k in debt and sold their souls to Normid. That's how I also remember it
August 18, 201610 yr I have a distinct recollection of watching the Wanderers playing a 5th Round FA Cup match against non-League Barrow, around 1979/1981, the Barrow fans filling the Manny Rd side of the Embankment, really packed. Crisp early Jan. day, sunny but cold, and we won 1-0. Except it never happened, at least I can't see it in any fixture list. I might be remembering the Everton game (boxing day?) and jumbling it about - except the Paddock were I usually stood was full and I had to stand on the Embankment for the one and only time. 1-1, we played in Red at home, orange ball, abandoned at half time, the George Wood incident..... Another one I might have made up is a game where it was so foggy you couldn't see the Embankment end goal (I was a Lever Ender then - left side) and when we scored it was like a Mexican wave roar.... The cup match, are you not thinking of the Halifax game or possibly the Arsenal tie ? Halifax had the regular away end though,whereas the Arsebandits had the home section of the embankment. Pretty sure a load of them were late due to a delayed football special.
August 19, 201610 yr I'm sure when we played Sunderland on boxing day in something like 94 we played out a dour 0-0 that was so bad when the ref blew for full time when the scoreboard said 89 mins Always thought the ref had just had enough rather than the scoreboard being broke
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