Blades vs Northampton January 1966

[JJ Sefton]

Bit of an odd request, but does anyone have a copy of this program I could borrow or a picture of the cover they could send me?

Cheers in advance.

 

[Silent Blade]

Bit of an odd request, but does anyone have a copy of this program I could borrow or a picture of the cover they could send me?

Cheers in advance.

Sharrowblade 's website should have the front cover

 

[Barney]

Sharrowblade 's website should have the front cover

Yep, just download here WalthamstowBlade. That's a great site by the way.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

That's amazing.
It was about that time I took my Blades program collection to school at the old Bluestones (near Park Hill). I was astounded to find a good market for them at three pence each and I'd built up a princely sum of 2/6d before the teacher came in and angrily brought my early entrepreneurship to a close. In fact she made me feel so bad about making money on school property she no doubt permanently damaged an early Donald Trump. Socialist bitch.

 

[Surrey Blade]

This was my first United match. Ended 2-2 after United had led 2-0. Sound familiar? Ron Flowers was playing for the Cobblers.

 

[Russ]

I preferred the 7-3 against them

 

[Silent Blade]

This was my first United match. Ended 2-2 after United had led 2-0. Sound familiar? Ron Flowers was playing for the Cobblers.

No it was 1-0 to us then Northampton equalised, We led again for half time before they equalised again. Keith Kettleborough's last match for us. Flowers was still a Wolves player then, he joined Cobblers in 1967

 

[Revolution]

Divisions Northampton were in between 1961 and 1970

1961 4th (promoted)
1962 3rd
1963 3rd (promoted)
1964 2nd
1965 2nd (promoted)
1966 1st (relegated)
1967 2nd (relegated)
1968 3rd
1969 3rd (relegated)
1970 4th

That's quite a ride. Swansea from 1978 to 1987 was similarly entertaining.

 

[Surrey Blade]

No it was 1-0 to us then Northampton equalised, We led again for half time before they equalised again. Keith Kettleborough's last match for us. Flowers was still a Wolves player then, he joined Cobblers in 1967

Thanks for the correction. Funny how your memory plays tricks. I think my next game was a 0-0 against WBA.

 

[JJ Sefton]

That's amazing.
It was about that time I took my Blades program collection to school at the old Bluestones (near Park Hill). I was astounded to find a good market for them at three pence each and I'd built up a princely sum of 2/6d before the teacher came in and angrily brought my early entrepreneurship to a close. In fact she made me feel so bad about making money on school property she no doubt permanently damaged an early Donald Trump. Socialist bitch.

This was my first United match. Ended 2-2 after United had led 2-0. Sound familiar? Ron Flowers was playing for the Cobblers.

http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-we-used-to-live-1966.45086/

 

[Silent Blade]

I think my next game was a 0-0 against WBA.

Lost 2-0 on 30th April 1966

 

[sitwell]

Bit of an odd request, but does anyone have a copy of this program I could borrow or a picture of the cover they could send me?

Cheers in advance.

Cobblers. Sorry its the law.

 

[BushBlade]

Thanks for the correction. Funny how your memory plays tricks. I think my next game was a 0-0 against WBA.

It certainly does. I could have sworn Steve Neville played for us in 82/3 but it turns out he played against us. I knew I'd seen him play that season, just forgot it was for Exeter.

 

[silver blade]

Bit of an odd request, but does anyone have a copy of this program I could borrow or a picture of the cover they could send me?

Cheers in advance.

I may have gone to that game, I remember going there once but all I remember was that they had a cricket pitch just like us, maybe they still have it.

 

[Silent Blade]

I may have gone to that game, I remember going there once but all I remember was that they had a cricket pitch just like us, maybe they still have it.

October 1965, we won with a goal by Ken Mallender

 

[wardonia_blade]

Divisions Northampton were in between 1961 and 1970

1961 4th (promoted)
1962 3rd
1963 3rd (promoted)
1964 2nd
1965 2nd (promoted)
1966 1st (relegated)
1967 2nd (relegated)
1968 3rd
1969 3rd (relegated)
1970 4th

That's quite a ride. Swansea from 1978 to 1987 was similarly entertaining.

I wonder if we will be the first team to go from the top league to the bottom twice.

My memory of the 1966 Northampton game was Mick Jones barging their keeper over the line for a goal which would not be allowed nowadays. Probably shouldn't have been allowed then come to think of it.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I wonder if we will be the first team to go from the top league to the bottom twice.

My memory of the 1966 Northampton game was Mick Jones barging their keeper over the line for a goal which would not be allowed nowadays. Probably shouldn't have been allowed then come to think of it.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Lost 2-0 on 30th April 1966

Wasn't Jimmy Hagan the WBA manager then? Remember coming out of The Lane gutted so my dad tried to cheer me up stating "never mind at least Hagan's got 2 points"

Needless to say dad was a big Hagan fan as were many in his generation - he's 88 now and its still "Hagan was the greatest" all the time

 

[Revolution]

I wonder if we will be the first team to go from the top league to the bottom twice.

My memory of the 1966 Northampton game was Mick Jones barging their keeper over the line for a goal which would not be allowed nowadays. Probably shouldn't have been allowed then come to think of it.

Thankfully we won't. Portsmouth have already done this.

 

[Darren]

It certainly does. I could have sworn Steve Neville played for us in 82/3 but it turns out he played against us. I knew I'd seen him play that season, just forgot it was for Exeter.

It was 83-4, he played for Exeter against us as I have already told you. Pay attention

 

[Silent Blade]

My memory of the 1966 Northampton game was Mick Jones barging their keeper over the line for a goal which would not be allowed nowadays. Probably shouldn't have been allowed then come to think of it.

It was banned not long after the 1958 FA Cup final (Nat Lofthouse barged into Harry Gregg). The goal should have been disallowed in 1966

 

[Silent Blade]

Wasn't Jimmy Hagan the WBA manager then? Remember coming out of The Lane gutted so my dad tried to cheer me up stating "never mind at least Hagan's got 2 points"

Needless to say dad was a big Hagan fan as were many in his generation - he's 88 now and its still "Hagan was the greatest" all the time

Yes he was WBA's manager until summer 1967

 

[Longtime Blade]

I saw this match too. As I went to the match I was wondering how a team like Northampton Town had reached the First Division
to play teams like Sheffield United and Blackpool. I felt they were really a Third Division outfit and should be facing clubs like Swansea City and Bournemouth and Boscombe.

This was my first United match. Ended 2-2 after United had led 2-0. Sound familiar? Ron Flowers was playing for the Cobblers.

 

[Longtime Blade]

I saw this match too. As I went to the match I was wondering how a team like Northampton Town had reached the First Division
to play teams like Sheffield United and Blackpool. I felt they were really a Third Division outfit and should be facing clubs like Swansea City and Bournemouth and Boscombe.

Correction: it was Swansea Town in those days.

 

[Jostein's Bandage]

I preferred the 7-3 against them

I'm pretty sure that was the only home game i missed that season. Incredibly, the only game i missed the season when Deane and Agana arrived, was the 6-0 or whatever it was against Chester City. All the shit i've endured over the years and i miss two of the best wins ever. I was there to witness Tottenham getting a damn good thrashing though. I remember before the game some 'cockney villain' taking the piss about us northerners all breeding whippets. Bet he didn't feel so smug after the game!

 

[wardonia_blade]

Thankfully we won't. Portsmouth have already done this.

Thanks for this. I feel much better now.

 

[BladeFisher]

I may have gone to that game, I remember going there once but all I remember was that they had a cricket pitch just like us, maybe they still have it.

No they now play at Sixfields. They used to play at the County Ground which they shared with Northants CC. They and us obviously both had grounds that hosted cricket and football. They moved in 1994. We booted cricket out 21 years earlier.

 

[Bladesince59]

I recall Mick Jones shoulder charging the goalie into the net in an "epic" against Northampton at Bramall Lane, Was the the game?
Today's keepers need to see it before they start whingeing,

SORRY I SEE SOMEONE EARLIER REFERRED TO THE SAME POINT.

 

[Davie Blade]

Great thread. So many memories.
The tokens on the programmes, for priority cup tickets was it SB?
Northampton's rise and fall , did they actually top league 1? (prem)
I too felt the same as Longtime blade how the hell can this lot be in league one, (old money) loved them for it.
Charting their progress with the old Tiger comic (or was it Valiant) football league tab ladders
I remember getting one of their programmes in a lucky dip, you sent off your postal order and got 10 or 20 assorted programmes back .

Praise that there's gentlemen with better brain retention than me!