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Les Brechin
July 22, 2016, 4:20pm

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That West Ham game was about the 2nd or 3rd last home game of the season and at the time we were actually threatening to become the first team to go from Division 4 to Division 1 in successive seasons and I think a win would have put us into the Top 3.

IIRC we'd only conceded 4 or 5  goals at home in total in the previous 17 or 18 games but they just ripped us apart that day with David Cross scoring as many goals as we'd conceded at home in total all season.

I think we only won 1 one more game after that and tailed away missing promotion by about 5 or 6 points.

West Ham won the league by about 15 points I think (and don't forget, this was when it was 2 points for a win)


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West Ham

Arsenal

Everton

Spurs

Man City

Chelsea

Newcastle

Sunderland

The list is endless, oh those were the days,

I hope we can get back up the leagues before I pop my clogs,

No more Ebbsfleet, Kettering and Tamworth ever again.


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Quoted from cmackenzie4
For me the best team I've seen Town play at Blundell Park is West Ham (1981) they totally dominated play and they where class, I was stood in the pontoon (right behind the goal) for the game.

I think West Ham won the FA cup the year before if I remember correctly??


West Ham also for me -       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381_in_English_football#Second_Division_3
  


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West Ham arsenal Fulham also very impressed with sheff Utd one year who beat us 4-1 at home with Michael brown running the game
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I would have said Blackburn Rovers in our late Div 1 days.

Seem to remember them beating us 4-1? They were magnificent, completely played us off the park.


I think that game was on Sky too?
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West Ham arsenal Fulham also very impressed with sheff Utd one year who beat us 4-1 at home with Michael brown running the game


Wasn't it 1948 the last time Arsenal played at BP ?


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Quoted from ginnywings
Yep, that Fulham performance is right up there with the best from an away team. They also had a young Ray Houghton in midfield if i remember rightly.

Think they repeated it in the return fixture.


They also had Dean Coney. It was a good side that Fulham team. Agree with their selection and that of West Ham. Both up with there with the best I've seen at BP.


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Wasn't it 1948 the last time Arsenal played at BP ?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7tECWBr_I0


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Early 80's against West Ham, was probably the best team we'd had since the war, and we were completely played off the park, i think David Cross scored a hat-trick for them?...i was a young teenager than, and it was the first time i'd seen us hammered at home, i think the next one i witnessed was against Bristol City, a certain Joe Jordan was playing for them, and i think we were 4-0 down at half-time!
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Quoted from Grimbiggs
Early 80's against West Ham, was probably the best team we'd had since the war, and we were completely played off the park, i think David Cross scored a hat-trick for them?...i was a young teenager than, and it was the first time i'd seen us hammered at home, i think the next one i witnessed was against Bristol City, a certain Joe Jordan was playing for them, and i think we were 4-0 down at half-time!


He got four. Think Goddard got the other, though not certain.
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