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ABANDONED MATCHESGraham Mills is based in St. Neots, Cambs. He produces the Eynesbury Rovers programme andpens articles for Bristol Rovers. He has very kindly passed on some very readable articles for theFIELD REVIEW.Early last season Bristol Rovers lost three valuable points at Wycombe with the game abandoned with TheGas leading 3-1, but spare a thought for Newport County fans back on Friday 23 rd March 1951. Their teamwere leading 5-1 against second-placed Norwich City in a Third Division (South) fixture at Somerton Parkwhen, with fifteen minutes remaining, the referee, Arthur Blythe, abandoned the match after Norwichdefender Reg Foulkes injured himself after heading the rain-sodden leather ball. Naturally the Newportfans were not pleased and many stayed to voice their disapproval. The referee could only escape theground disguised as an ambulance man with a police escort! That match was voided and the replayedfixture ended in a 1-1 draw. Not only were Newport denied victory but the scorers from the first match weredeleted from the records thus denying Reg Parker a goal. When he retired in 1954 he had 99 Leaguegoals to his name being denied the century by that postponed match!Colchester United’s record attendance at Layer Road was for a game that ended up being abandoned.19,072 were at the ground for a First Round FA Cup tie on Saturday 27 th November 1948 against Readingwhich lasted just 35 minutes before the fog descended.Until they lost their place in the Football League in 1972 a midweek match in Barrow was always a longtrek. No more so than when Gillingham tried to get there for a Fourth Division match on Monday 9 thOctober 1961. With Barrow not having floodlights the match was due to kick off at 5.15pm. Gillinghamplanned on catching a train from London at 9.05am to arrive at the ground an hour before the kick off.Sadly the coach taking them to Euston Station was delayed and they missed the train. The next trainwould have got them to Barrow after the kick off time and road travel was too slow. As scheduled flightsto Manchester and Newcastle were both full they chartered their own plane. However, that was alsodelayed and it took them as far as Blackpool with another 70 miles to travel by car. The kick off wasput back by fifteen minutes and even with a police escort Gillingham only managed to get to HolkerStreet at the new start time still needing to get changed! By the 76 th minute Barrow were leading 7-0but with the light fading Gillingham’s agony was ended when the match was abandoned.Thankfully the Football League took pity on Gillingham and did not order the match to be replayedletting the 7-0 result stand. One player that would have been pleased that the match was not replayedwas Gillingham’s Billy Jervis. He was making his only ever league appearance and that would havebeen deleted from the record books!One of football’s most famous stories involved Manchester United stalwart Dennis Law. Playing forManchester City he scored the goal that condemned United to relegation to the Second Division in1974. Law did not celebrate the goal and was substituted promptly. The facts of the matter were thatUnited had to beat City at Old Trafford on Saturday 27 th April 1974 to stand any chance of avoidingthe drop. Law’s back heeled goal in the 81 st minute gave City a 1-0 win but even if the match hadended 0-0 United would go down. United fans knew that and with five minutes remaining they invadedthe pitch, perhaps hoping for a second chance if the match was abandoned and subsequently replayed.Referee David Smith did abandon the game but the result was allowed to stand.In season 1904/05 an abandonment changed the out come of the league title. Everton’s match atWoolwich Arsenal was abandoned due to fog in the 76 th minute with The Toffees leading 3-1. The matchwas rescheduled for the end of the season with Everton facing three matches in just four days. Evertonlost 2-1. If the original match had been completed and the score remained the same Everton would havebeaten Newcastle United to the League championship by a point.Back in 1898 a First Division fixture between Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa took four months tocomplete! The original game on Saturday 26 th November was abandoned after 79 minutes due to bad lightwith Wednesday 3-1 up. Remarkably the league decided that the two clubs should resume the match atSheffield and play only the final eleven minutes. This they did on Monday 13 th March when Wednesdayadded one more goal.The First Division match between Chelsea and Charlton Athletic on Christmas Day 1937 suffered anabandonment when heavy fog descended on Stamford Bridge. The fog was so bad that Charltongoalkeeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had ended and it was ten minutes before a policemantold him the game had been called off!I amnow glad that those potential three points lost at Wycombe by Bristol Rovers did not prove to besignificant at the end of the season!FIELD REVIEW -10
DAVE’S DIARYGOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE & WELCOME TO THE GLASS CONSULTANTS UK STADIUM fortoday’s Calor League August Bank Holiday encounter against our old friends from CLEVEDON TOWN.Thank you for your attendance today & for buying this programme. I do wonder how long it will takeus Editors to get used to referring to Cossham Street under its new name in the FIELDREVIEW, but I’m sure we’ll get used to the name in time! Anyway, Clevedon are here this afternoonfor their 2 nd away game of the season & they will be hoping to improve on their first one, which wasa 2-0 defeat at Swindon Supermarine. They were also beaten at home last Monday by BridgwaterTown. Rivalry between our 2 clubs goes back a long, long way, of course, right back to the 1950s &the Bristol & District League, so please give Our Boyz (in their new kit) all your support this afternoonas we strive to pick up the 3 points on offer – COME ON THE FIELD! COME ON YOU MANGOS!THESE NOTES WERE PENNED BEFORE SATURDAY’S TRIP TO FLEET TOWN, so let’s hope thatwe came back along the M4 with at least 1 point, but preferably all three!WE BEGAN THE SEASON, OF COURSE, nine days ago with that amazing 5-3 home win v newboys GUILDFORD CITY & what a first half it was! We were 2-0 up in 3 minutes, 3-1 up in 18minutes, 4-2 up at half time & then eventual 5-3 winners. Bearing in mind that Guildford weretotally unknown opponents for us, & appealed against being put into this division in the summer,I’d have taken any kind of win before the game, but I don’t think anyone here expected to see as many as 8goals in the game. Our forward play was a delight to watch, we created chances galore, could/shouldhave doubled our tally & there were many good performances throughout the team. Of course,if we were to learn anything at all from the game, it was to tighten up at the back more than wedid, as conceding 3 goals was the only blot on our copybook. Nevertheless, we can only hopethat more performances like that will lead to us having bigger crowds from now on, because ourgate of 118 was the 3 rd lowest in our division on the day & that is disappointing, though notsurprising. It was peak holiday time after all, and Guildford didn’t bring as many as their website originallysuggested, so let’s hope there’s a good few more here today for this afternoon’s local derby!INTERESTINGLY, ONE FAN’S COMMENT ON THE GUILDFORD FORUM is worth reproducing here,as the writer said:“Thank you very much FA. It wasn't just about the extra mileage, it was about extra cost and extracommitment. Our guys left Guildford at 1030 today and will get back at about 2100 and Mangotsfield isone of the nearer away trips, let alone travelling to and from home”.One of our own supporters then commented that the AA mileage from Guildford to Mangotsfield is86 miles. That’s a lot of miles admittedly, but we’ve had journeys longer than that in the WesternLeague years ago (to places like Barnstaple, Bideford & Torrington) & then in the Noughties, to clubslike Rocester, Sutton Coldfield & Shepshed Dynamo! Perhaps from Guildford’s point of view, it’s justas well, then, that Truro City aren’t in our division this season!MOVING ON, LAST TUESDAY’S TRIP TO MERTHYR TOWN (AT CINDERFORD) brought us alldown to earth as we lost 3-0 to The Martyrs. I could easily say that it’s always hard to get anything atMerthyr, even though they’re playing at Cinderford for the moment until their new 3G pitch is ready,but the score-line says it all; it’s history now though & we have to learn from it. I am sure that Merthyrwill be up at the sharp end of the league again this season, but defensively, we need to tighten upafter conceding 6 goals in our first 2 games & I hope that we were able to do just that at Fleet onSaturday & again today.DON’T FORGET THAT IT’S FA CUP DAY THIS COMING SATURDAY when we entertain old friends& local rivals in BITTON here at (what’s it called again??) the Glass Consultants UK Stadium.There’s always a few Mango connections at Bitton & seeing as we knocked them out of the FA Cuplast season, they’ll be after their revenge today as well. For us, we have NEVER reached thePromised Land of the First Round of the FA Cup before, but local rivals Clevedon, Paulton & Yatehave all done it in recent years. Will 2013-14 see MUFC achieve that same glory?? DAVE SFIELD REVIEW -11
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