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Ex United assistant manager to Happy Harry Haslam has died.

From the Stockport OS...............

It is with great, great sadness that Stockport County have to report the death of Danny Bergara.

The County legend, who had suffered two strokes recently, died at 9.30am yesterday morning.
 

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Sad news

Harry Haslam Danny Bergara bibbady bobbady boo

Put em together and what have you got ...............

Remember the wendy singing this to us more than once

RIP Danny
 



Paisley Blade said:
Hate to be a pedant 19 years later ( I don't really) but the last bit was (somewhat hopefully) ' Top of Division 2'

Didn't happen and went down instead.
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Even as a daft 18 year old, there was always a flavour of 'rats and sinking ship'.

Martin Peters took the flak (and so he should, for being past it, but still picking himself), but weren't Happy Harry and DB still behind the scenes and supposed to be 'helping'?
 
I should coco said:
Even as a daft 18 year old, there was always a flavour of 'rats and sinking ship'.

Martin Peters took the flak (and so he should, for being past it, but still picking himself), but weren't Happy Harry and DB still behind the scenes and supposed to be 'helping'?
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I was 14 the night of the Leicester game when our relegation to Div 3 was confirmed. My possy then was glued to the tunnel, stood on the railings at the JSS, literally inches next to the teams emerging.

My memory of that night is our players lining up and clapping Harry Haslam on to the pitch and presenting him with a silver salver, think Mick Speight did the honours. When HH walked back to the tunnel he reeked of fags, standard for the time. Fuck knows what the award was for, making them laugh mebbes?

We drew 2-2. Pitch invasion at one point and one of our fans executed a decent flying Kung Fu kick on a Foxes player. Good job Sky Sports News wasn't around in those days, it would have led the bulletins for days.
 
'Promotion to Division Two'?

Yes. I was at the Leicester game on the South Stand. There were two or three pitch invasions. It was still the 'skinhead' era or the tail end of it. I recall a few 'skinhead' Blades on the pitch. News that the match had been delayed due to crowd trouble made the BBC 9 o'clock news as my parents asked me about it when I got home.
 
Camden Blade said:
'Promotion to Division Two'?

Yes. I was at the Leicester game on the South Stand. There were two or three pitch invasions. It was still the 'skinhead' era or the tail end of it. I recall a few 'skinhead' Blades on the pitch. News that the match had been delayed due to crowd trouble made the BBC 9 o'clock news as my parents asked me about it when I got home.
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There was some anger at that Leicester game we needed to win by 9 or 10 goals to stay up we were down at Cambridge and it kicked off there at full time.
Skins were history in 79 but there was a mod revival around then
 
Lane Ender said:
There was some anger at that Leicester game we needed to win by 9 or 10 goals to stay up we were down at Cambridge and it kicked off there at full time.
Skins were history in 79 but there was a mod revival around then
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Before the Leicester game, the bottom of the table was thus

18. Charlton P42 Pts 35 GD -9
19 Oldham P40 pts 35 GD -14
20 United P41 pts 33 GD -17
21 Blackburn P41 pts 28 GD -32 (R)
22. Millwall P37 pts 27 GD -16

2 points for a win remember.

Forgetting Millwall, who still had a very long shot at staying up (10 points left to play for, 8 from safety), United could stay up in 2 ways

1. Win by any score and hope Oldham lost their remaining 2 (even if all games finished 1-0, GDs would then be equal but United had scored more goals).
2. Beat Leicester by 9 so we overtook Charlton on GD (they'd scored more goals so an equal GD a 8 goal win would bring wouldn't be enough)

As it happened Oldham won both their remaining games, so a less than 9 goal win would have postponed the inevitable.
 
Remember him doing a lads football evening presentation, he got the lads gathered round him and said they had to learn this trick if they wanted to become a pro footballers.
He then took a 50p coin out of his pocket threw it in the air flicked it up with his foot then bounced it off of his thigh and caught it in his top jacket pocket.
The lads didn't believe their eyes.
RIP.
 
Paisley Blade said:
Hate to be a pedant 19 years later ( I don't really) but the last bit was (somewhat hopefully) ' Top of Division 2'

Didn't happen and went down instead.
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It ended up being changed to "shit all over your shoe"
 
programmechap said:
Before the Leicester game, the bottom of the table was thus

18. Charlton P42 Pts 35 GD -9
19 Oldham P40 pts 35 GD -14
20 United P41 pts 33 GD -17
21 Blackburn P41 pts 28 GD -32 (R)
22. Millwall P37 pts 27 GD -16

2 points for a win remember.

Forgetting Millwall, who still had a very long shot at staying up (10 points left to play for, 8 from safety), United could stay up in 2 ways

1. Win by any score and hope Oldham lost their remaining 2 (even if all games finished 1-0, GDs would then be equal but United had scored more goals).
2. Beat Leicester by 9 so we overtook Charlton on GD (they'd scored more goals so an equal GD a 8 goal win would bring wouldn't be enough)

As it happened Oldham won both their remaining games, so a less than 9 goal win would have postponed the inevitable.
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Welcome to 9 years of pain football wise 4th Division season was special though.
 
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Paisley Blade said:
Hate to be a pedant 19 years later ( I don't really) but the last bit was (somewhat hopefully) ' Top of Division 2'

Didn't happen and went down instead.
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Was the final game of that season when we got battered at Blundell Park🤔
Harry Haslam,with tears in his eyes,came to applaud us on the away end at the final whistle.
Or am I mis-remembering🤔.
He was such a nice fella.
Always well turned out in Suit n tie,whilst Danny wore an old fashioned baggy blue track suit.
 
Yoonitedite said:
Was the final game of that season when we got battered at Blundell Park🤔
Harry Haslam,with tears in his eyes,came to applaud us on the away end at the final whistle.
Or am I mis-remembering🤔.
He was such a nice fella.
Always well turned out in Suit n tie,whilst Danny wore an old fashioned baggy blue track suit.
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I remember everyone throwing their scarves over the fence at him, and I do remember him wiping away tears. We were all singing "there's only one Happy Harry".

Can't imagine fans showing such loyalty today to a manager in similar circumstances
 
Dkc said:
I remember everyone throwing their scarves over the fence at him, and I do remember him wiping away tears. We were all singing "there's only one Happy Harry".

Can't imagine fans showing such loyalty today to a manager in similar circumstances
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Times have certainly changed and so have I.

I bumped into Wilder outside Simmonites as was in town after our thrilling promotion to the prem.
He was with his Mrs.I shook his hand n thanked him for the joyous entertainment him n his team brought.
He was polite and willing to engage.

Sadly we're a shadow of our former selves so I doubt I would even attempt to engage if such a coincidence recurred.

I was a youth when Harry was there and more prone to getting giddy.
Loyal fans was how he referred to us.
Would have loved him to have brought us some success because he seemed very likeable and a gent.
Good memories despite the gloom😇
 
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