I write this article in muted mood as another FA Cup campaign ends in the first round, albeit with, apparently, an impressive attacking performance. Due to it coinciding with our annual bonfire party, I couldn’t get to the game, but was told we more than matched Notts...
I started this piece away from home, with my programmes and research materialat the other end of the country. We were on a trip to the North West, arranged a couple of months ago to coincide with our Morecambe away match on Saturday 14th October, which, subsequently,...
Before I briefly touch on previous encounters with the media darlings that are Wrexham, I want to say how nice it was to bump into another former Red Devil,Andy Taylor, in REDZ bar after Saturday’s match. Andy had made the long journey from East Anglia with his...
What a difference a cracking away win makes to your weekend and the start of the new week! Unfortunately I chose to go to Grimsby last season when, in the final game of Kevin Betsy’s ill-starred reign, we lost 3-0 to go bottom of the league and concentrate our minds...
Let’s start with the 6-0, as it’s fairly topical, and we have all had a couple of weeks to get over it. All you can do is move on from such a shocker, and I am sure most would agree that we have moved on pretty well! In a similar vein, and looking back to 16th August...
My previous article ended with us in the 1970s and the start of our slow decline. Failing finances, poor results and equally poor support made for a fairly depressing decade of Southern League football at Town Meadow, with just the odd bright spot standing out in my...
I ended my first RRD looking at a programme from the first league game at our new ground at Town Meadow in 1949, and before I move on to other topics in future articles, I thought I should carry on where we left off and revisit the early years at Town Meadow through a...
It seems strange to be writing a retrospective article and launching it on this very much 21st-century medium of the internet! However, the football club’s rather sad decision to scrap matchday programmes (whether physical or digital) has led to a massive outpouring...