Boro v Port Vale 1986

I'm sure, not that it mattered to me I turned up at the away end waved my home end ticket and they let me in, + what definitely confirmed it was all ticket was Little Sammy and Noel( ?) and about 50 other Boro lads piled into the ground on the side where they had makeshift dressing rooms from portacabins and ran down into the away end to get into the ground just before KO.They can't have been priority point holders😉
 
exeterboro said:
I'm sure, not that it mattered to me I turned up at the away end waved my home end ticket and they let me in, + what definitely confirmed it was all ticket was Little Sammy and Noel( ?) and about 50 other Boro lads piled into the ground on the side where they had makeshift dressing rooms from portacabins and ran down into the away end to get into the ground just before KO.They can't have been priority point holders😉
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Fair enough. To be honest, I also had a suspicion it might have been as I recall it had absolutely persisted down all day and a group of us was sitting at home desperately hoping for a postponement because we didn’t fancy standing in a storm on that end with no roof. And daft though I was in my early 20s, I think I would’ve just not gone to the first leg of a league cup tie to stand on an open end in the tail end of an Atlantic hurricane if I didn’t already have a ticket.

Memory is a fallible thing at this age though, and of course, it is perfectly possible that they had sold the tickets a couple of weeks before. The whole thing during that summer was that we were assumed to be playing in the third division and in the league cup until we didn’t. So they could have sold tickets on the presumption we were going to.
 
FishofContemplation said:
Fair enough. To be honest, I also had a suspicion it might have been as I recall it had absolutely persisted down all day and a group of us was sitting at home desperately hoping for a postponement because we didn’t fancy standing in a storm on that end with no roof. And daft though I was in my early 20s, I think I would’ve just not gone to the first leg of a league cup tie to stand on an open end in the tail end of an Atlantic hurricane if I didn’t already have a ticket.

Memory is a fallible thing at this age though, and of course, it is perfectly possible that they had sold the tickets a couple of weeks before. The whole thing during that summer was that we were assumed to be playing in the third division and in the league cup until we didn’t. So they could have sold tickets on the presumption we were going to.
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I can't remember how they sold tickets, it could have been all very short notice, but even then we hadn't got the keys back to the ground maybe it happened after the weekend? Or maybe the keys to the ground didn't include the ticket office out the back of the north east corner?
 
FishofContemplation said:
The whole thing during that summer was that we were assumed to be playing in the third division and in the league cup until we didn’t
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As I remembered it, the assumption was we were fooked and wouldn't be playing anyone anywhere. Roger Thames even announced it on TV using those EXACT words laced with glee.
 
My memory of this game is rapidly fading. I was about to type that I remember walking over some wasteland next to the ground and having to avoid stepping on bricks and half bricks that were just lying around. Then I wondered if that was actually Carlisle a couple of years previously.

Whatever. I do recall, for now at least, that we had a decent chance to go three up. Maybe a shot from distance?
 
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