Match Day Thread West Ham v Hull City

Gareth Roberts?

 

Yep. Nicky Barmby played at the age of 16.

 

Was there lots of testimonials in the early 70s?

 

I sat on those benches. I was only 10 and it was definitely the Chelsea game.

 

there was benches for the Chelsea game. I was in the South Stand
I was on the running track at the Millwall game in the North Stand
the club was prepared for a big attendance against Chelsea but not so much against Millwall

 

The first one I remember was Jock Davidsons

 

My Dad went to Raich Carter's. It was at Chants.
His favourite player.

 

1988 Jeff Radcliffes testimonial v Spurs. Just over 2,000 there.

 

I'm sure there was one before that
early 70s or am I confusing it with Leeds?

 

Mally Lord's v Sunderland didn't even attract 2,000.

 

I was in the south stand for the Chelsea game also.

 

Chris Chilton's testimonial against Leeds was held on Monday May 3rd 1971, Leeds full first team squad lined up.
There's a page by page copy of the match program somewhere on the History thread (don't remember the thread page I'm afraid ! If I do a scan & find it I'll update this post.

Edit:

See post # 18 on thread CHRIS CHILTON from June 25 2013. , which in turn links to Photoshop copy of program pages:

https://s1330.photobucket.com/user/rickgwalker/library/CChiltontestimonial?sort=2&page=1

 

If I remember correctly it was ‘81 v Sunderland

 

Thanks. I definitely wasn't there!

 

Thanks TC. This is making me want to go into the loft to dig the programme out.

 

Corrected for you. It's a strange thing of mine is that. I spell pretty well for an Orchard Park boy, but I do have habit of missing whole words from a sentence.

I did the same thing in this post, but as its you I checked it before posting

 

Yes.

 

You missed the its when it should have been it's though.

 

If this hasn't been posted already?

https://talksport.com/football/efl-cup/match/2020-09-22/west-ham-united-v-hull-city/