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Retro Red Devils 30 – Eagles, Sparrow and Imps

A bit of a mixed bag for this issue as I am away all next week prior to the Lincoln FA Cup match and would not have time to prepare a separate article for that game. While flicking through some cuttings to answer a query from Ivan Noel about our history with Mansfield...
Morecambe, Anniversaries and the FA Cup

Morecambe, Anniversaries and the FA Cup

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,...

Andy Taylor, 8-5, New Owners (and Wrexham!)

Andy Taylor, 8-5, New Owners (and Wrexham!)

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...

Sutton, Trophies and Early Superstars

Sutton, Trophies and Early Superstars

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...

Retro Red Devils – Tranmere, 6-0 and all that!

Retro Red Devils – Tranmere, 6-0 and all that!

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...

Retro Red Devils – Charlton & Newport

Retro Red Devils – Charlton & Newport

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...

Retro Red Devils – Town Meadow

Retro Red Devils – Town Meadow

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...