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" Pochettino calls on the FA to intervene over Rochdale's pitch ahead of FA Cup 5th round at Spotland. Says it is no in a condition to play football & could lead to injuries for both sets of players. "
Russ made some good points, honestly thought he was stretching when he started saying about the weather, i mean oldham and bury are very close neighbours and their pitches dont look that bad.. norden playing fields is in better nick even ffs
I thought we played Coventry on that Monday afternoon because there were ongong power cut? Or was that a year later,as I recall about ten of us from Sudden Club went to Elland Road on a Tuesday afternoon to watch Leeds beat Liverpool 2-0 in a 4th round replay.
In 1971, our floodlights were little more than car headlights on top of telegraph poles.
"The game had been postponed once and Coventry had refused to play under the Spotland floodlights, but the afternoon kick-off didn't stop a bumper 13,011 crowd cheering Dale on to a famous victory." (MEN)
What an afternoon that was, I remember that morning in Kingsway school assembly the headmaster surveyed the kids and said "I want to see every face here this afternoon" The hall was deserted by dinnertime....Still one of the best Dale days ever...
It will be very poor quality if there is any footage.....
.Rodders, just stumbled on your Lions TV man's 5 min review of the game as he travels back to London on Wednesday am.....really good piece, can't find it to do a linky here.......are you you able to post a link ?
A wonderful day. One curious aspect of the time was that when Noel Cantwell exercised his option not to play under floodlights, Dale 'prepared' for Monday afternoon's cup match by travelling to play Plymouth Argyle on the Saturday (and drawing 2-2).
There was brief coverage on the NW News that evening, featuring Stuart Hall (urgghhh!) so even if the archive is still available, it'll never see the light of day
Not that Dennis Butler slipping the ball past their fullback and cutting in from the left before hitting the Sandy Lane net will ever fade from my mind's eye
When did Pochettino start to read his Christmas copy of Sir Alec's 'Little Book of Mindgames'? However, if we were in a position to relay the pitch this could be a positive benefit for our remaining home league games.
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