The club have just put this up [video=youtube;jadWD2kjafA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadWD2kjafA&feature=youtu.be[/video] For those of you that weren't around in the 90s the fact that these were our best goals all season gives an indication of how good we were. It reminds me of the "100 goals of the decade" video I had from the 90s where a Windass penalty made the top 100!
The 10 year old commentator doesn't help. They never practised passing in those days under Dolan. Often they hadn't been introduced to their team-mates before kick off. That's how it looked.
So strange the club putting up these historic shots of our past history when they propose to wipe it out next season if the name change goes ahead. Hypocritical or what!
Harvey ....... can't remember his surname. Some of the games on those vids (For Or Against - It's Goals That Count) are commentary less - presumably he couldn't attend every game. That was a really **** season. I remember on the final day at WBA rumours spreading that Exeter had won as had PNE - pre mobile phone or Internet to check/clarify -meant most were gutted. Cue the delirium to find out it was a big dirty lie and we had stayed up. In those dark times, there was some amusement though (and at a fair price): seeing some new CF make their debut and you didn't even know they'd signed the day before (David Jones, ha) even in the horror of conceding a goal at BP, especially if the away team had only brought about forty people, you'd see them from a distance (think Kempton might have been closed for a bit early 90s) going beserk, holding onto their hats as they ran down the North Stand steps - but no noise. No noise whatsoever. Like some sort of mime of reaction. Sort of. Can't be arsed to watch the clip now, but I assume Paul Hunter v Brighton is on there.
You'd watch that and believe Paul Hunter went on to play for Ajax Amsterdam. He actually went on to play for Stenhousemuir.
Quite handy that - I was struggling for the name of the striker who we had on loan around that time who was really quite good. It was Martin Carruthers. Didn't Paul Hunter miss quite a bit of the season after tripping over his dog?
Deano's freekick, Hunter's (no.4) were worthy of a higher place than they got IMO. That brings back some memories.
I thought he was amazing for us, surprised he went on to achieve **** all - Carruthers, not Hunter of course. Though he went on to a successful snooker career before being taken from us too young but that's probably for another thread
I was certainly impressed by Carruthers - he looked like a "proper" striker. He had a couple of years at Scunny and scored a fair few for them. I think you're mixing up your Paul Hunters though - ours was Scottish and the snooker player (who died at only 27 years of age) was from Leeds.
We were skint at that time. Truly ****ing arse flabless skint (Tiger In Your Team fund and all that). Anyway, a tabloid reported we’d offered Villa 200k for Carruthers. 200k at a time when we absolutely had **** versus. The local media picked up on this and asked Fish. Fish said it was true (to an extent) but described it as a ‘manager to manager’ bid and intimated we obviously had no chance of signing him. The ‘manager to manager’ bid described by Fish seemed to be some sort of ‘what if’ scenario played out by managers in their spare time.
They've just put this one up. I remember this game well, I almost missed it helping my old man move to the midlands. [video=youtube;qBSI3jv90A4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBSI3jv90A4[/video]
