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cmackenzie4
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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??


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Thought that was about 1975 because I went and they played Fulham. 1-0 was the score.
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David Cross got 4, not sure on the other but Alan Devonshire had a field day that day.


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Really, that many goals? My memory's going, or perhaps I'm in the wrong year with 75.
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Thought that was about 1975 because I went and they played Fulham. 1-0 was the score.


They beat Arsenal in 1980.
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Good, my mind perhaps hasn't quite gone yet.
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Good, my mind perhaps hasn't quite gone yet.


Think it was 2-0 against Fulham though  
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It was a dull game and very warm I think. Please don't tell it chucking it down or I'll have to check in at the docs.😀
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Blackburn Rovers for me in our latter days at Championship level.  Mark Hughes may have been player-manager then, not too sure, but Eyal Berkovic ran us ragged from memory. Definitely think they went up that year.

I think the biggest defeat I've seen us suffer at home was 5-2 against Charlton, not the best opposition as such but Mendonca scored for them I seen to remember.  Not good times.
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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.
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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??


The Hammers were good that year but a couple of years later we were demolished 4.0 at home by a brilliant Fulham side


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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.


Wasn't Souness managing them for that season?

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Think it was 2-0 against Fulham though  


It was, and if I remember correctly Alan Taylor scored both goals

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The Hammers were good that year but a couple of years later we were demolished 4.0 at home by a brilliant Fulham side


That was a fantastic performance. Think it was when Malcolm McDonald was manager.
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The Hammers were good that year but a couple of years later we were demolished 4.0 at home by a brilliant Fulham side


This. Malcolm McDonald in charge and the brilliant Gordon Davies running the show, and against a very good Town team it has to be said. Never been so in awe of the pass and move game as that day, we were literally chasing shadows.


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That was a few days before we beat Everton away.....


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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.
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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 did. They beat us 4-0 both home and away that season.

I'm struggling to think of any better teams I've seen at BP than those West Ham and Fulham teams.


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This. Malcolm McDonald in charge and the brilliant Gordon Davies running the show, and against a very good Town team it has to be said. Never been so in awe of the pass and move game as that day, we were literally chasing shadows.


Gordon Davies! That's the chap. Tore us to bits that day.


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Wasn't Souness managing them for that season?



Yeah he was. Hughes played for them whilst managing Wales at the same time (Danny Coyne picked that night to make pretty much his only mistake of the season)


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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,

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



85/86 FA Cup. They won 4-3 here. I wouldn't say that they were particularly brilliant as a team that day it was just a fantastic individual performance by Charlie Nicholas , who scored a hat-trick, including 2 excellent free kicks that won ot for them.


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85/86 FA Cup. They won 4-3 here. I wouldn't say that they were particularly brilliant as a team that day it was just a fantastic individual performance by Charlie Nicholas , who scored a hat-trick, including 2 excellent free kicks that won ot for them.
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Thanks, forgot that one !



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Thanks, forgot that one !



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