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KingstonMariner
August 20, 2021, 7:34pm
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Quoted from forza ivano
bloody hell - that means it's my 50th anniversary season of having the pain and misfortune of following Town!
Darlington at home was my first ever experience of a football match, and from that day onwards i was a Town fan (Thanks Dad!!). All i remember is it being rammed and aload of fighting in the Ossie
Far too many disappointments and far too many brief moments of elation, but certainly supporting Town has given me some valuable life lessons and experiences!


Me too. This week in fact. Town 4 Donny 3 in the League Cup. I went along reluctantly that night. Hooked after that.


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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There was mention of Doncaster above in the early 1970s.   Donney had a great player in the 1950s and 1960s called Alick Jeffrey.  A very talented forward.

He made his first team debut at age 15.  He played for England under 23s as a teenager.   He was strongly rumoured to be moving to Man United in the late 1950s but suffered the first of 2 bad broken legs.  This scuppered his big move and most of his career.    Ironically, he thus avoided any potential involvement in the Munich Air Disaster.

He was described as the English Pele by Jimmy Murphy the Assistant Manager at Man United.

His fame transcended Doncaster.  Any very old Town fan will remember him.
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There was mention of Doncaster above in the early 1970s.   Donney had a great player in the 1950s and 1960s called Alick Jeffrey.  A very talented forward.

He made his first team debut at age 15.  He played for England under 23s as a teenager.   He was strongly rumoured to be moving to Man United in the late 1950s but suffered the first of 2 bad broken legs.  This scuppered his big move and most of his career.    Ironically, he thus avoided any potential involvement in the Munich Air Disaster.

He was described as the English Pele by Jimmy Murphy the Assistant Manager at Man United.

His fame transcended Doncaster.  Any very old Town fan will remember him.


The only Donny player I recall from anything like that era, but I’m too young to have seen him play, was Charlie Williams.


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My first season too as a fresh faced 12 year old, quickly hooked on the excitement.

50 years has whizzed past.
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August 21, 2021, 10:40am
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Also my first season 50 years ago, home to Darlington was my first game. Stood on a stool in the Osmond stand up against the picket fence. Great days. Didn't think we ever lost at home in those days. Reality eventually dawned!
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That’s when it all began for me too. My dad had taken me to a game when I was younger, but too young to really get hooked. Then my cousin took me to a pre season friendly in about 1968. But it was my next door neighbour, a former player, who took me along to a game early in the season, and then I stared going regularly with my dad. Saw every home game for the rest of the season, and many other seasons until I left home to go to uni.

50 years. Phil Ball wrote a book about being a Town fan called ‘Through Thin and Thin’. I get where he was coming from but for me the highs, though few and far between, do make up for the far more frequent lows, even given the last fifteen years. Overall supporting Town has been a positive rather than negative life experience.

It’s a close run thing  though given the Fenty years, but I do believe we have some good times ahead.
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Half a century since we last won a championship in any of the five top tiers of English football.

We truly have been starved of glory haven't we.
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August 21, 2021, 11:34am

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Half a century since we last won a championship in any of the five top tiers of English football.

We truly have been starved of glory haven't we.


Don't forget 1980!
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Don't forget 1980!


Good point! 41 years since we won a championship. Hopefully it won't be half a century since we won one in 9 years time.
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Also my first season 50 years ago, home to Darlington was my first game. Stood on a stool in the Osmond stand up against the picket fence. Great days. Didn't think we ever lost at home in those days. Reality eventually dawned!


since there's 2 of us for whom darlo at home in 71-72 was our first Town experience has anybody got any details/repost/line ups of that match please?
I know i've got the programme somewhere
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