Melton Blade
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Do you know the parallels with our current fall from grace of nearly making Europe.... to the season 1974/5 to abject failure and early relegation in 1975/6 are absolutely scary.
With Furphy at the helm I remember us thrashing Spurs 3-1 at White Hart Lane on Match of the Day, followed by the unforgettable TC "quality goal from a quality player" in the 3-2 home win against West Ham. We were unbeaten in the last 6 games and I seem to remember a win in our last game at Birmingham rather than a nil all draw would have claimed a spot in Europe?
Lots of optimism then In the close season as we made a record signing of a new centre forward Chris Guthrie who scored on his debut in an entertaining 1-1 home draw against Derby the champions on Match Day 1.
Unbelievably we didn't register our first win till the 9th game at home to Burnley and the second win wasn't till GAME 29 by which time we were managed by Jimmy Sirrell. We finished with 4 wins all season. It was desperate (even with TC & Woody).
What a collapse.
Let's hope the world isn't really on repeat and we have an unintelligible Scotsman with bad teeth taking over from CW!! Haha.
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With Furphy at the helm I remember us thrashing Spurs 3-1 at White Hart Lane on Match of the Day, followed by the unforgettable TC "quality goal from a quality player" in the 3-2 home win against West Ham. We were unbeaten in the last 6 games and I seem to remember a win in our last game at Birmingham rather than a nil all draw would have claimed a spot in Europe?
Lots of optimism then In the close season as we made a record signing of a new centre forward Chris Guthrie who scored on his debut in an entertaining 1-1 home draw against Derby the champions on Match Day 1.
Unbelievably we didn't register our first win till the 9th game at home to Burnley and the second win wasn't till GAME 29 by which time we were managed by Jimmy Sirrell. We finished with 4 wins all season. It was desperate (even with TC & Woody).
What a collapse.
Let's hope the world isn't really on repeat and we have an unintelligible Scotsman with bad teeth taking over from CW!! Haha.
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