I was one of the Muppets
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SUIYHP
The King's Gull
For some reason I thought you meant you were a muppet literally.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
I was going to bet it was Rowlf.
northstandnorth
THE GOLDSTONE
I was one of the Muppets who saw his first away game at Huddersfield,we got chased through Manchester city centre on the way up (away trip those days involved a walk from one Mainline station to another)by City fans who thought we were Arsenal and having to fight our way through a disembarked train load of Gooners at Euston to get to the Tube.
Happy days
Oh and being on the Terrace at Uddersfield that day was hardly a picknick that day either.
Happy days
Oh and being on the Terrace at Uddersfield that day was hardly a picknick that day either.
Spanish Seagulls
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But, if we hadn't have had Clough, we wouldn't have got Taylor who then stayed for two seasons and laid the foundations for what Mullery went on to achieve. Every cloud and all that.
BRIGHT ON Q
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How long did Clough actually stay at the Albion?
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I saw us getting beaten at home 2-8 by Bristol Rovers
seagullsoverlincoln
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Remember losing 4-0 at home in the cup to Walton and Hersham under Clough,surely one of the worst results in the history of the club!
As already mentioned,he did bring Taylor down to the Goldstone,which was a benefit
As already mentioned,he did bring Taylor down to the Goldstone,which was a benefit
Return of the Rev
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glory days
cloughs first game 0-0 york city 16,0017 turned up compared with 6400 for previous home game,went to walton and hersham away and home(mid-week afternoon kick off) had to bunk school for that one! saw the 8-2 rovers smash and grab game,had to do one across the pitch from rovers before the game started!!!!!
cloughs first game 0-0 york city 16,0017 turned up compared with 6400 for previous home game,went to walton and hersham away and home(mid-week afternoon kick off) had to bunk school for that one! saw the 8-2 rovers smash and grab game,had to do one across the pitch from rovers before the game started!!!!!
Agreed.
Clough always spoke positively about Mike Bamber.
Cheshire
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Agreed and you can also never underestimate the publicity value to the club for having got Clough who was the biggest name around in football at the time. And what was to come over the next few years fully made up for the horror of watching the Walton and Hersham and Bristol Rovers thrashings.
Correct...the publicity was huge.I was on honeymoon in Scotland when it was all announced about Clough and Taylor.Couldn't believe it.
Thought Clough took the piss out of the club and fans,but Taylor at least showed a bit more integrity and effort and did indeed lay the foundations for the Mullery'Glory Years'.Happy days.
Never liked Clough and having read Wardy's book about how he was treated by ' him whilst at Forest just confirms my view.
pork pie
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I saw us getting beaten at home 2-8 by Bristol Rovers
Me to! Great fun afterwards though wasn't it!
Absolutely. I said on the other thread, it wasn't so much what Clough himself did at Brighton (as looking at the bald results he was actually one of our worse managers) but what his appoihtment represented. In a word: ambition. For the first time we thought "Blimey, we've got a chairman who isn't happy for us just to be a run-of-the-mill third division team, this guy (Bamber) wants to see how far he can take us."
It was quite an intoxicating time. Gates almost tripled and never really went back down again until the end of the 'Glory Years'. And of course Taylor stayed and laid the foundations that Mullery built on.
In our history the term 'BC' means 'Before Clough'. Everything changed when he arrived.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
I saw us getting beaten at home 2-8 by Bristol Rovers
don't shout to loudly Sir Norman played in that game ....bless him
pork pie
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Well, actually. everything changed when Mike Bamber "arrived". He was the man with vision and money, Clough was just a part of it. As has been said, Clough was more of a "statement of intent" from Mike Bamber, than anything much that happened on the pitch.
I thought that it was impressive when Bamber said (in the film) "we will pay you 20% more than Derby were". I had imagined he had had to take a pay cut because he was out of work.
True, but as a young fan I wasn't really aware of Bamber until Clough arrived. In other words there was no big fanfare when Bamber became chairman, but that first Clough game against York ...
But it IS one thing to talk big, loads of chairmen can do that, but quite another to actually deliver which Bamber undoubtedly did. I sincerely hope there's going to be a Mike Bamber suite or something at the new ground.
pork pie
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Agreed, but many on here tend to blame him for the bad years because he over-spent. To the best of my (limited) knowledge, it was more of a case of his family not continuing things and wanting his money back when he bacame unwell. Good to see TB take over recently, because his Grandfather was Vice Chairman at that time, and it sort of gives the whole thing some continuity from those great days.