Think that game was also memorable for Sir Bob giving a masterclass to strikers on how to finish. If memory serves he fell over and managed to trap the ball between his chest and pitch before scrambling to his feet to put it away in front of a worshipping kop.
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Think that game was also memorable for Sir Bob giving a masterclass to strikers on how to finish. If memory serves he fell over and managed to trap the ball between his chest and pitch before scrambling to his feet to put it away in front of a worshipping kop.
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I'm pretty sure it was against Cambridge Utd we were 2-0 up, Stainrod should have hammered in the 3rd but went for a tap in which stuck in the the mud. game ended 2-2! Conditions were that bad that we played with an orange ball and all the lines were marked out in red!
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I'm pretty sure it was against Cambridge Utd we were 2-0 up, Stainrod should have hammered in the 3rd but went for a tap in which stuck in the the mud. game ended 2-2! Conditions were that bad that we played with an orange ball and all the lines were marked out in red!
No, the Stainrod stuck in the mud incident was definitely in the 4-1 win over Luton: it was the first game I ever attended.
The Cambridge game was a 3-3 draw the following season: the weather was terrible for both games, though.
No, the Stainrod stuck in the mud incident was definitely in the 4-1 win over Luton: it was the first game I ever attended.
The Cambridge game was a 3-3 draw the following season: the weather was terrible for both games, though.
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As I recall the pitch was covered in snow for the Cambridge game. I think we went 2-0 up with two goals from Varadi and got a pen. There were calls for Varadi to take it, but regular taker Gary Hamson took it and missed.
Cambridge promptly went 3-2 up before John Matthews rescued a point with a last minute 25 yarder.
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Indeed. Booker put us 2-0 up early on and Hodges and Deane made it 4-0 before half time. Southampton got one back in the 2nd half, but we were coasting to an easy win when we got a pen with about 15 mins left. Like in the Cambridge game, there were calls for Booker to take it to get his hat trick. This was the first pen we had got for nearly a year and Gannon and taken and scored the last one (v Wolves in March 1990), so he got the job again. He ballooned it in Simonsesque fashion about two miles over the bar.
We still won 4-1 though.
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There isn't a striker alive (or dead) who hasn't had a horrendous miss at some time in his career.
Now how about a thread on the "Worst Missus"?
Now how about a thread on the "Worst Missus"?
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Bobby Campbell, Craven Cottage, Good Friday 1978.
11am kick off (fuck knows why) so a 4am start from my house.
1-0 down, about 15 left, and driven cross comes in from the left wing. Only Bobby there, 1 yard out (if that) and it only has to hit him and it goes in. Against all the laws of physics he heads it over the bar right in front of the 200 or so unbelieving Blades.
Fulham end up with a 2-0 win.
Why's it so memorable (aside from it's enormous comedic value of course)? Well we had to repeat the journey on Easter Monday to Orient for another 11am and took another beating for the biggest waste of an Easter I can ever remember (although I think we won the Saturday game at home)!
Go Bobby, go Bobby, go Bobby, go Bobby, go go go.
11am kick off (fuck knows why) so a 4am start from my house.
1-0 down, about 15 left, and driven cross comes in from the left wing. Only Bobby there, 1 yard out (if that) and it only has to hit him and it goes in. Against all the laws of physics he heads it over the bar right in front of the 200 or so unbelieving Blades.
Fulham end up with a 2-0 win.
Why's it so memorable (aside from it's enormous comedic value of course)? Well we had to repeat the journey on Easter Monday to Orient for another 11am and took another beating for the biggest waste of an Easter I can ever remember (although I think we won the Saturday game at home)!
Go Bobby, go Bobby, go Bobby, go Bobby, go go go.
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The Saturday game was the 4-1 win v Luton mentioned above. The Monday game we lost 3-1, but Campbell did score that tie....
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Thanks Dazzler, I couldn't have actually named the Saturday opponents in a month of Sundays. I also thought Orient had scored 4 (usually Merv Kitchen scored at least 3) and Kenworthy had scored ours from a pen. Perhaps that was another top day at the Orient though and I've no doubt your memory is better than mine on these things.
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(usually Merv Kitchen scored at least 3)
The umpire?
The umpire?
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That's him Rev, lethal in front of goal.
Peter Kitchen was the Striker of whom I refer, but we always called him Merv (after the umpire who was still a Somerset batsman in those days).
Peter Kitchen was the Striker of whom I refer, but we always called him Merv (after the umpire who was still a Somerset batsman in those days).
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Games at Orient in the late 70's/early 80's:
16/4/77 W2-0 (Franks 2)
27/3/78 L1-3 (Campbell)
11/11/78 D1-1 (Anderson)
14/5/83 L1-4 (Houston)
18/10/83 L0-2
So no Kenworthy pen there I am afraid. I think Kitchen got all 3 in that 3-1 win.
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Bugger, did he miss a penalty? I know there's one lurking there somewhere.
I'm afraid your credibility is now in tatters though Dazzler. Colin Franks, 2 goals in a game? Pah, more chance of "Chris Guthrie, 100 caps for England".
Time to get stuck into the "Worst players" thread I think.
I'm afraid your credibility is now in tatters though Dazzler. Colin Franks, 2 goals in a game? Pah, more chance of "Chris Guthrie, 100 caps for England".
Time to get stuck into the "Worst players" thread I think.
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I don't think he ever missed a pen against them either. From memory Kenworthy's only two penalty misses were at Plymouth on 19/4/80 and at Mansfield on 8/3/82. He didn't actually become the pen taker until Feb 1980 and relinqusihed the job to Morris in Oct 82 - so he wasn't actually the taker in any of the Orient games.
Franks was actually played at Centre Foward in that game at Orient. Perhaps Jimmy Sirrel had been on the whisky before the game, but it evidently worked
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Remember this game for the snow, plus Cambridge's time wasting goalie, sick of his time wasting went to side of kop were snow was. I made a huge snow-ball and at his next goal kick fired it at him as it hurtled towards his head kop began to go OOOOOOO and just missed his head. Coppers looking down kop could'nt see me as I was in trench as we stood were fence separated left and right side of kop.
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That reminds me of the game v Halifax on 2/1/82. Also a snow covered pitch. We went 1-0 up early on, but Paul Richardson was sent off just before HT. Shortly after HT, with Halifax having a corner at the Kop end, a well aimed snow ball from the kop whacked the ref full in the face and knocked him unconscious!
It obviously did him some good as he shortly after awarded us a dubious pen which Kenworthy scored. All plain sailing from then on? Nah. Halifax(!!) ran us ragged thereafter , got two late goals and we were lucky to get a point.
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Franks was actually played at Centre Foward in that game at Orient. Perhaps Jimmy Sirrel had been on the whisky before the game, but it evidently worked
I well remember when we signed the "fastest man in football", he was touted as being either a centre half or centre forward. In actuality this meant he was equally useless at both positions.
I've noted the blatant use of a Tony Kenworthy penalty anecdote as well.
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Also remember going down to Fulham, on Boxing[St Stephens] day for an early kick-off midday ? and being beaten with almost last kick to lose 2-1 also Southend away again early kickoff midday again? and losing 2-1 with alate winner couple of west am fans on away end shown the exit doors.
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Not a sitter but can anybody remember when Dellas unleashed the fury and walloped the crossbar. It kind of just went vertically after that. Didn't think it was coming back down.
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The Southend game was on 4/4/80. We did indeed lose 2-1 to a last minute goal after Matthews had put us 1-0 up.
The Fulham game was on 26/12/80, but your memory is a bit wonky there I think. I am pretty sure we went 2-0 now before Bob Hatton pulled one back late on to see us lose 2-1.
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I remember the game on 11/4/98 v Norwich when from about 35 yards and with us 2-0 up he knocked over the goaliewith the force of the shot, the ball rebounded back into play and Norwich broke away and scored. They then got another and the game ended 2-2.
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Beattie vs. Stevenage just after Lowton equalised at 2-2 in 85th.
IF ONLY!!
IF ONLY!!
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That wasn't really a bad miss though, more a good save.
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Just a question is this the season Cambridge relegated us [now there's a surprise ] by beating us 1-0 down there,with the irish bloke Guy heading onto the top of the bar,remember Blades trashing away area and Haslam coming over to calm us down. Sorry not beating Leicester 9-0 at home in final game sent us down 2-2 it ended.Also coach broke down on way home from Cambridge an all.
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Yes, that's the only season we ever played Cambridge in the league.
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I bow to yourgreater knowledge, still oiled because of festive cheer ho,ho,ho. those huge glass vat's of cider great for drinkin great as emergecy jack's when finished.
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O'Halloran's miss in the same game, then all this doom and gloom talk would'nt exsist, and we'd still have Quinn,Lowt's,defo not Ched and maybe Willo? and be in a higher div,also.
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