Delighted for him he's captaining his country despite him leaving a big club to sign for his current team.
We sold 55,000 tickets for the Rotherham game (there were 72,000 applications). Some sources quote it as the highest ever attendance for a third tier game on tickets sold though “only” 49,655 turned up due to a bus strike. Others quote Cardiff City’s 52,000 as the highest for a third tier game.Not many had cars then. Wonder how many would walk to a game on Christmas Day now? Talking of crowds, our highest is only 2,000 less than TWS, who we are 2 places behind in the list of highest crowds. Amazingly the next on the list below us is little Burnley, or the Villagers as some disparagingly call them, whose record crowd is only 250 less than ours. Impressive in a town of 70,000. On the list of highest average crowds we are one place below Leeds. But our record was set in Div 3, the only one in the top 20 not set in the top flight. Some will be up in arms about your last sentence but there is a lot of truth in it. Though it isn’t the club, back in Waudby’s days relations were very good, it is the fans. Some of the worst were those who deserted City in the late 70s and early 80s and jumped on the rugby bandwagon with more chance of reflected glory. Including one very well known City fan in the 1960s and up to mid 1970s who you bumped into and who denied knowing you and said he had never been to City. A statement undermined by his having .Hull City tattooed on his fingers,
I was also there. Aged 7 and a bit..First away game, I was proverbial, 'gutted.'...Seem to recall we went back via the ferry from Cleethorpes. Your spot on.. Matt Tees did score...Was he a Hull lad, or am I confusing him for some other Codhead icon?
No, he was Scottish and played for the Cod Heads. Ironically, my abiding memory from the game was a guy I knew, who was actually a fish merchant in Hull, had his trilby hat pinched and being tossed about like a frisbee by the City faithful.
Matt Tees did score the only goal. The returning Ferry left from New Holland, a train took us there and back. Matt Tees wasn't a Hull lad. Good centre forward, very Chris Chiltonish which is praise indeed.
Must have been it...I once did go to Clee for a day out on the Tattershall castle in about 1964, or sometime in that neck of the woods. Ironically I was in Buffalo New York about five years ago and took a paddle streamer across Lake Erie to a beach side place called Crystal Beach, which was actually in Canada. Most of the Yanks were laid on the beach listening to the Bills getting whooped.
When I started work on the fish dock in an office, we had each year a group of auditors who came in the check the books. They were all total pissheads. On a Saturday, we worked Saturday morning in those days, at lunchtime they would go into Oberon on the Pier, drink there until 3 pm when they got chucked out, they would then get on the Ferry to New Holland, you could get a drink onboard, drink bottles of Hull Brewery mild and bitter, around trio usually got them back just in time for opening in the evening.
My main memory of the day was getting off the train at Cleethorpes station with thousands of City supporters trying to squeeze past a single ticket collector. Not surprisingly they overran him and flooded off into the street. He responded by shouting "I know who you are and I'll get you when you come back."
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