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[Football] Last pro game in England to be played behind closed doors...
- Thread starter Marmaduke
- Start date
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
That wasn't behind closed doors! It was on a weekday morning. I was there.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Argument settled 
I believe it was Villa v Someone in a European cup game due to previous crowd trouble might be wrong though.
I believe it was Villa v Someone in a European cup game due to previous crowd trouble might be wrong though.
The Sock of Poskett
The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)
- Jun 12, 2009
- 2,803
Argument settled
Correct - Villa v Besiktas in 1982. And West Ham had a European game with no crowd in 1980.
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51857803
mikeyjh
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Burton v Leicester, 1985, could be a contender?
Oscar
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- Nov 10, 2003
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Argument settled
And me. What a strange game that was.
Me too. Like 11am on a Thursday or something. Odd atmosphere.
I can't remember the ins and outs of it now, but the result was meaningful to another club too – like they needed York to win to stay up themselves, or something like that. There were some of their fans in the North alongside the Albion few.
- Aug 8, 2005
- 26,556
Er sorry, I was there. And it is a great example of why games should not be behind closed doors.
Remember what those home games of the last half of that season were like. Crowd right on the home side's back, cheering every free kick won, or throw in even. It must have been very intimidating for any visiting team.
York were fighting relegation with Carlisle I think and had they played the game that was abandoned rather the revised one when frankly our team wasn't up for it, there could well have been a very different result. Felt sorry for Carlisle at the time.
It just isn't football without a crowd (accepting that there was a few hundred of us there).
ps) as a side point, thank you to my work colleague who allowed me to skip work for a couple of hours to go and covered me with a frankly ridiculous story involving sickness and the shits.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
You’ve probably made your point in your previous 100 posts over football behind closed doors
- Aug 8, 2005
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You’ve probably made your point in your previous 100 posts over football behind closed doors
Ooh have I reached 100 now
Thank you for counting. I'll aim higher.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Ooh have I reached 100 now
Thank you for counting. I'll aim higher.
. I’ll let you know when its a double hundredNeville's Breakfast
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- Apr 5, 2014
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Very enjoyable article. Thanks for linking.
Not Andy Naylor
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Yes, Carlisle chairman Michael Knighton was in the West Stand to see his club relegated by York's win. And he was pretty peeved about the circumstances. There were inevitable threats of legal action, although who against rather escaped me at the time.
Klaas
I've changed this
- Nov 1, 2017
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I thought we were quite supportive really.
Pinkie Brown
I'll look after the skirt
Given Knighton's eccentricity and history of talking nonsense, any threat of legal action from him would probably be met with a shrug of the shoulders and 'meh.'
atfc village
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Bloody Stewart Mell Burton's Striker knocked us out the round before ,Colin
was Burton manager . TBF Burton brought over 2000 to Aldershot that day ,bolstered by a few Derby . It was a proper 80's cup tie. A couple of years later Mell would score Scarboroughs 1st league goal v Wolves .
atfc village
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Birmingham v Stoke 92 ? After crowd trouble ,ground emptied then the ref brough tplayers for the last 90 seconds.
Superphil
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As indeed was I.