Each of these articles takes a good half day to produce – more when I get sidetracked reading the programmes or old press cuttings I am hoping to use as a basis for the piece. Either that, or I am sitting wondering what to write about as in most cases I have pretty...
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Retro Red Devils 41 – Not very Posh, Audrey Turnbull & other “Unsung Heroes”
I will start with a little bit of Posh, and probably a lesser-known couple of meetings between our two clubs in the 1996/97 season. These two games were in the Optimum Interiors Capital League, when our reserves came up against Peterborough United (reserves, I...
Retro Red Devils 40 – Two Bristols, Glory and the Slide Begins
We might have been bad last Saturday, but thanks to another cracking goal (we only score “worldies” unfortunately), this time from Ade Adeyemo, we did better than “The Gas” who lost 5-0 to Lincoln, so who knows what we will get this week, a 0-0 draw probably? I would...
Retro Red Devils 39 – Last Chance Saloon, Royals and Addicks
I am starting this joint Reading and Charlton piece on the day after our fairly abject display against Cambridge United, when we seemed to approach a “must win” game as if it was an end-of-season stroll, particularly in the first half. Mind you, slow starts seem to...
Retro Red Devils 38 – Another Old Adversary 1969-2025 & Another Wanderer Gone
I realise that many of our EFL opponents have “come up through the ranks”, as it were, from non-league football throughout the 20th century, but for the purposes of this and recent articles it is since our entry into semi-professional football as a Southern League...
Retro Red Devils 37 – Two Non League Giants, Two Club Legends and those dreadful fans!
With this burst of home games I decided to combine Wycombe and Wigan into one article, and throw in a bit of turmoil and dissent as well. Doing my research I have found more links between us and Wycombe than I thought existed, although even then I am not suggesting...
Retro Red Devils 31 (36) – Town Mead Wanderers, Absent Friends & The Battle of the New Towns
I went along to the recent fans’ forum, which was well attended. There were lots of valid questions asked and frustrations aired, with most if not all of those present being Red Devils fans who have the interests of the club at heart even if they disagree with...
Retro Red Devils 35 – Hollywood Comes to Town! (Weather Permitting)
And so the Hollywood media circus comes to town again, weather permitting, of course (it was lashing down earlier in the week when I was writing this). Another big attendance, I am sure – a far cry from the 737 dedicated souls (just over 100 from Wrexham) who came to...
Retro Red Devils 34 – Going for a Burton and Tony Kingston RIP
My suggestion in my previous piece, written for the Charlton match, that I may be wasting my time due to a possible postponement proved to be sadly right, despite getting as far as taking my seat in the East Stand along with many others, and watching the players...
Retro Red Devils 33 – Goals, Miles and Wind!
In my previous piece for the Birmingham game I wrote of crazy Christmas scores, fixture congestion and some punishing trips for our part-time and small squad, which was often no more than a core of fifteen at times in the 1960s. And in some ways this Christmas has...