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Sir Matt Tease
April 11, 2020, 11:44am
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Following on from my previous thread yesterday, (Season re-run), I have decided to share some memories form the 1971-1972 season from a scrapbook kept by myself as a thirteen year old. A new manager had been appointed in Lawrie McMenemy and Sir Matt Tees had returned the previous season as we approached the games more in hope than expectation. Bearing in mind this was a team that had finished 23rd/16th and 19th in the previous three seasons in the old fourth division. As I explained yesterday I am technologically inept and this thread could end up going very badly wrong !
I have decided to feature the season on a month by month basis beginning in August and if it is something you enjoy I will continue up until that fabulous evening at the end of the season when 22,484 fans crammed into Blundell Park to salute the champions !
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Hope this works, enjoy !
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April 11, 2020, 11:52am
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Thats great, thanks for that.
I too have many of those photographs in a scrapbook that I compiled as a 13 year old!
Great memories.
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April 11, 2020, 12:09pm
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Great memories, I too cut pages out of the Telegraph and have 3 scrap books full of stuff from Sir Matt's return to the first year or two after being promoted, I would have been 14 I suppose. Looking back on the photos of Matt Tees it seems impressive how high he seemed to jump and hang in the air and the various angles he would dive to to head the ball! I had a work mate who used to be a Charlton fan and he would be equally impressed and he said he was the best header of the ball he could remember.  Your post has got me reminiscing now, which isn't a bad thing. Thanks.
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KingstonMariner
April 11, 2020, 1:34pm
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Great post Sir Matt! Thank you for the memories. That first Donny game was my first ever match. I remembered the crowd being big (not just cos I was 8 at the time), but your notes confirmed it. 8882.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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April 11, 2020, 1:51pm
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Great stuff. Really enjoyed looking through those - thanks for taking the time to do it.
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Great stuff. Really enjoyed looking through those - thanks for taking the time to do it.
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April 11, 2020, 2:11pm
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Amazing! My first away match was the Donny game, then later in the season I went to the Lincoln away game which I think we lost? Interesting to see that second home game was our highest attendance for five years (although obviously we continued to smash that record as the season wore on and on).
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Remember the Scunny game well. Scunny came into the ground early nd had the nerve to go into the Pontoon, a position they stayed in until half time went he police led them out to avoid further mass assaults upon them.

Agree with others re Matt's uncanny ability to hang in the air before connecting with his head. It was a rare thing of beauty. Andy Carroll? Wouldn't be fit to tie up Matt's shoelaces where heading's concerned.

The Donny game saw a really large contingent of away fans in BP, and further skirmishes in the Pontoon. After the game I remember seeing two Town fans with a Donny fan, desperately protesting his allegiance to Town. Then one of them asked him where the dock tower was. A look of bewilderment on his face before being let go, with both Town fans laughing their heads off.

It would be years until the police got on top of trouble at football grounds, with "intelligence" and segregation. Up until then it was seemingly game on most games.

Town also won their first away game 4-3 at Exeter that season to make it twelve goals in their first three games. We knew there was magic in the air by then.


No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred of the Tory party. So far as I'm concerned they're lower than vermin. Aneurin Bevan.
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April 12, 2020, 10:14am
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Great season, unfortunately I didn't see it as I was deployed in Londonderry N Ireland with my Battalion.  I did write to Lawrie McMenemy congratulating him and the team, and was delighted to receive a hand written letter back from him, which unfortunately has gone missing since then.
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April 12, 2020, 11:31am
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That’s triply sad for you B&WB.


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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