| Our Most Bizarre Away Game 17:05 - Sep 11 with 3992 views | Oakfarm_Boy |
It took place during the 1970's,a midweek night game in the Midlands. Around 200 plus R,s fans made the trip.I was in a small convoy from the Hayes/ Hillingdon area .Does anyone- else have memories of that match? No prizes for guessing which match . Bizarre because RANGERS were not playing !! |  | | |  |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 17:35 - Sep 11 with 3909 views | enfieldargh |
I was in a Chinese restaurant in Bushy that night
Frigging David fairclough |  |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 17:38 - Sep 11 with 3906 views | qpr_1968 |
didn't go that night, apparently the ground was 3/4 scousers...is that right? | |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 18:26 - Sep 11 with 3832 views | DannyPaddox |
Jesus Christ isn’t it a 9/11 anniversary bad enough without bringing this up. [Post edited 12 Sep 2019 13:38]
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 18:42 - Sep 11 with 3805 views | Boston |
I was there. Scousers totally filled North Bank, had a lot on the side terrace and some in the South Bank, though I was at the back so wasn’t sure who was down the front. [Post edited 11 Sep 2019 18:45]
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 13:32 - Sep 12 with 3372 views | BostonR |
Crazy game - would never happen now. We lost the title with our 0-0 draw at Sheffield Utd. How we did not win that match 5-0 is beyond me. |  | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:31 - Sep 12 with 3257 views | kensalriser |
a dot org classic:
Wolvercu.ntinghampton B astardarsecockwanderers |  |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:32 - Sep 12 with 3255 views | Mick_S |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:31 - Sep 12 by kensalriser |
a dot org classic:
Wolvercu.ntinghampton B astardarsecockwanderers |
That was Don - I liked him. |  |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:45 - Sep 12 with 3226 views | qpr_1968 |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 13:32 - Sep 12 by BostonR |
Crazy game - would never happen now. We lost the title with our 0-0 draw at Sheffield Utd. How we did not win that match 5-0 is beyond me. |
spot on, ive always said it was the Sheffield united away game that cost us, not the Norwich game.
mayhem after the game at Sheffield as well, come at us from all directions, bricks the lot.
went by train, came back in an open top furniture lorry.....good old days. | |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:51 - Sep 12 with 3213 views | CamberleyR |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 13:32 - Sep 12 by BostonR |
Crazy game - would never happen now. We lost the title with our 0-0 draw at Sheffield Utd. How we did not win that match 5-0 is beyond me. |
With goal average (i.e. goals scored divided by goals conceded for younger readers) still a decider that season (goal difference came in the following season) with what subsequently happened at Norwich, we'd have had to have won at least 4-0 there anyway to have finished with a better GA than Liverpool.
A goalless draw at Norwich would have also seen us champions. |  |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:56 - Sep 12 with 3199 views | qprxtc |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:45 - Sep 12 by qpr_1968 |
spot on, ive always said it was the Sheffield united away game that cost us, not the Norwich game.
mayhem after the game at Sheffield as well, come at us from all directions, bricks the lot.
went by train, came back in an open top furniture lorry.....good old days. |
Nah.
What did it for us was bringing forward our last game of the season (West Ham away) to the blank FACup 4tg round day.
Our reasoning being that while all the others were in the cup we could steal a march on them by beating the Irons.
We lost.
Had we kept the game where it was (the Monday after Leeds) as originally planned we could have won the league there. Norwich, Sheff U and Wolves wouldn’t have been an issue.
Of course we should have just beaten any other git we lost too and that would have done the trick too. [Post edited 12 Sep 2019 16:07]
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 16:08 - Sep 12 with 3172 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:51 - Sep 12 by CamberleyR |
With goal average (i.e. goals scored divided by goals conceded for younger readers) still a decider that season (goal difference came in the following season) with what subsequently happened at Norwich, we'd have had to have won at least 4-0 there anyway to have finished with a better GA than Liverpool.
A goalless draw at Norwich would have also seen us champions. |
As a younger reader, goal average seems a mental concept, favouring teams that grind out 1-0s over 4-3s. Who sat there at the FA in 1892 or whenever and chose division over subtraction? | | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 16:10 - Sep 12 with 3166 views | CamberleyR |
2 away points from 6 against the relegated three and just 3 points from 12 and no wins from the bottom 6 teams away from home was what cost us.
But the inescapable fact is that losing at Norwich that day put the title back in Liverpool's hands and out of ours. | |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 16:16 - Sep 12 with 3157 views | Boston |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:32 - Sep 12 by Mick_S |
That was Don - I liked him. |
‘His Worship’ Don. Disappeared, or just on another board? | |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 17:21 - Sep 12 with 3082 views | BostonR |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:45 - Sep 12 by qpr_1968 |
spot on, ive always said it was the Sheffield united away game that cost us, not the Norwich game.
mayhem after the game at Sheffield as well, come at us from all directions, bricks the lot.
went by train, came back in an open top furniture lorry.....good old days. |
Agree - not very friendly after the game or during it, but Rs away support during that season was incredible. I was at the Norwich game and have always said at least 15,000 Rs fans were at that game. | | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 18:07 - Sep 12 with 3024 views | kingo |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 17:21 - Sep 12 by BostonR |
Agree - not very friendly after the game or during it, but Rs away support during that season was incredible. I was at the Norwich game and have always said at least 15,000 Rs fans were at that game. |
Two specials out of Wembley. I will never forget the scenes at the end with 1000s of Rangers sitting on the grass bank down from the away terrace, heads in hands. |  |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 21:45 - Sep 12 with 2811 views | Pommyhoop |
Me and the Old Man were around our 'His master's voice' record player that had a wireless built-in.
Bastard supersub made me see actual tears on my Dad for the first and only time. |  |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 23:46 - Sep 12 with 2707 views | wortonranger |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 16:16 - Sep 12 by Boston |
‘His Worship’ Don. Disappeared, or just on another board? |
Don’s still around - he lives near me and posts on Facebook - not so much on football though. Still very much an R, but doesn’t need to be worshipped having finished his mayoring. |  | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 09:41 - Sep 13 with 2528 views | CamberleyR |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 16:08 - Sep 12 by Watford_Ranger |
As a younger reader, goal average seems a mental concept, favouring teams that grind out 1-0s over 4-3s. Who sat there at the FA in 1892 or whenever and chose division over subtraction? |
Completely agree. It favoured teams that didn't concede rather than rewarding teams that entertained and scored goals and was way, way overdue in being replaced by GD when it happened.
Probably one of the most stark examples of GA being a complete nonsense was in the 1964/65 season in Scottish Division One (then the top division) when Kilmarnock won the league pipping Hearts on GA by having a final record of F 62 A 33 against Hearts' F 90 A 49
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Scottish_Division_One | |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 10:05 - Sep 13 with 2494 views | Mick_S |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 23:46 - Sep 12 by wortonranger |
Don’s still around - he lives near me and posts on Facebook - not so much on football though. Still very much an R, but doesn’t need to be worshipped having finished his mayoring. |
Don once chided me for mistakenly referring to a Greggs steak bake as a steak slice. I had to accept that one - harsh but fair. | |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 10:31 - Sep 13 with 2470 views | loftus77 |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 09:41 - Sep 13 by CamberleyR |
Completely agree. It favoured teams that didn't concede rather than rewarding teams that entertained and scored goals and was way, way overdue in being replaced by GD when it happened.
Probably one of the most stark examples of GA being a complete nonsense was in the 1964/65 season in Scottish Division One (then the top division) when Kilmarnock won the league pipping Hearts on GA by having a final record of F 62 A 33 against Hearts' F 90 A 49
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Scottish_Division_One |
Yes - and the irony, of course, was that Hearts lobbied hardest to have GA rightly changed to goal difference.
Then came 1985-86....when they lost out to Celtic so cruelly on goal difference. Had GA been the rule in 86, Hearts would have been champions. | | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 10:48 - Sep 13 with 2442 views | stevec |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 15:56 - Sep 12 by qprxtc |
Nah.
What did it for us was bringing forward our last game of the season (West Ham away) to the blank FACup 4tg round day.
Our reasoning being that while all the others were in the cup we could steal a march on them by beating the Irons.
We lost.
Had we kept the game where it was (the Monday after Leeds) as originally planned we could have won the league there. Norwich, Sheff U and Wolves wouldn’t have been an issue.
Of course we should have just beaten any other git we lost too and that would have done the trick too. [Post edited 12 Sep 2019 16:07]
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Never understood the logic of bringing games forward, January everyone has got something to play for, last game of the season only a handful of clubs.
West Ham with nothing to play for and the choice of us or Liverpool winning the League you can't help thinking we'd have had a virtual walkover like the 6-0 Palace game. |  | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 03:38 - Sep 14 with 2213 views | SonofNorfolt |
The worst birthday present I've ever had, for about 77 minutes the best one. |  | | |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 06:51 - Sep 14 with 2178 views | kingshill |
| Our Most Bizarre Away Game on 10:48 - Sep 13 by stevec |
Never understood the logic of bringing games forward, January everyone has got something to play for, last game of the season only a handful of clubs.
West Ham with nothing to play for and the choice of us or Liverpool winning the League you can't help thinking we'd have had a virtual walkover like the 6-0 Palace game. |
And West Ham would have had a Cup Winners Cup final to worry about so we could have had a real go at them | | | |
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