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denni266
November 20, 2017, 11:45pm

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I was bouncing up and down that hard on the bed i fell off it when i heared we scored , the mrs thought i had had a fit or something    
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November 21, 2017, 12:03am

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Quoted from jock dock tower
I couldn't get there that night was away at college as a mature  student in Oxford - college, not Uni.

Remember listening to it on the radio when they went around the grounds and always remember the commentator nearly choking on his microphone. We were the only team to stop Everton scoring at home that season....not too bad considering they were league champions at the end of it. Has to be Town's greatest post war result.

The game I do remember though is the 1979-80 League Cup tie against Everton at BP, something I and perhaps 16,000 other folk will never forget, when the mercurial Mike Brolly scored twice to give us our biggest upset in living memory. Was in the Barratt that night and it was absolutely bouncing ...nothing like it on such nights. Not the greatest Everton side by any stretch, but with the likes of Bob Latchford and Brian Kidd up front all bar Town diehards thought we would be pushovers.  UNBELIEVABLE.


I was also in the Barretts stand that night.... the crowd was around 22,000 though.


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November 21, 2017, 6:52am
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I was bouncing up and down that hard on the bed i fell off it when i heared we scored , the mrs thought i had had a fit or something    


Lol in bed that early then bet the Mrs laying next to ya thought how come I never get that reacton lol. Only kiddin mate nice one
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November 21, 2017, 6:57am
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I was also in the Barretts stand that night.... the crowd was around 22,000 though.



Yes it was. Only bettered by the game in the next round against Andy Gray's Wolves, were 23000 attended.
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Yes it was. Only bettered by the game in the next round against Andy Gray's Wolves, were 23000 attended.


That first Wolves game often gets bypassed when people talk about the great B.P. nights but Town came within inches of another famous win when Kev Moore(?) rattled the bar with a header. Had we won that night there would've been two 3rd tier teams in the semi-final of what was then a trophy taken pretty seriously by the "big boys" (pretty sure Swindon were the other one). An all Division 3 semi-final would've seen us as favourites to get to Wembley....great night.


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November 21, 2017, 11:11am
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I was also in the Barretts stand that night.... the crowd was around 22,000 though.



I was in the Pontoon, the actual attendance was 22,043
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November 21, 2017, 1:15pm
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I was also in the Barretts stand that night.... the crowd was around 22,000 though.



Not everybody in the ground was supporting Town though. Constitutional end was full of Scousers.


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I was in the Pontoon, the actual attendance was 22,043


God. 22,000, where did they all go? 😥


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Everton win away was easily my best game following Town (Wembley  matches apart) at that time Everton were the best team in England and on their own patch, they hammered us all the game and still lost.
Stood on my seat in the top tier behind the important goal and went berserk.
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God. 22,000, where did they all go? 😥


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