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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Southend United
at 14:29 29 Dec 2025
I don’t remember the fog at the Fulham game but I do remember the pitch being really icy and tricky underfoot. I was standing on the Sandy Lane End and I can still see Haynes picking the ball up in the old inside left position 20 to 25 yards out and firing the ball into the top corner of the net at the other end. So the fog couldn’t have been that bad. A class goal from a class player.
The thing I really remember was the four strange Fulham fans stood right in front of me. They’d come all the way to watch the game and they weren’t paying the game any attention all. Two of them had their backs to play most of the game and they were just chatting amongst themselves. When Haynes scored they were asking me what had had happened !
I remember a game against Tranmere at Spotland in the early to mid 1960’s when both teams were going well at the top of the league and a big crowd was anticipated. That was called off because of fog but in truth it should have never even started. You couldn’t see to the half way line from behind the goals at the Church Inn end at KO time. They played for about 20 minutes and then called it off. Much needed funds I suppose. [Post edited 29 Dec 14:33]
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Reply | Joe Thompson Mural
at 16:31 18 Sep 2025
I hope they are permanent and not just for now. The Joe Thompson one especially. The quality is amazing. How do-they get the detail that good when they’re working so close to the walls ? |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 14:36 20 Aug 2025
Definitely chewing gum. I don’t think players with false teeth played with them in back in the day. It’d be a bit dangerous. |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 10:36 19 Aug 2025
Far from a great goal but the first I can remember. Playing Southport at home in the early 1960’s. It was 0-0 with about 10 minute to go. There’s a massive goal mouth scramble in the Sandy Lane end goal. Louis Bimpson throws himself full length to head home the loose ball. As he belly flops into a very sandy goalmouth his chewing gum flies out of his mouth and lands in the sand, I was right behind the goals and I was amazed to see him calmly pick the chewing gum out of the sand and put it back in his mouth. [Post edited 19 Aug 10:37]
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 20:39 17 Aug 2025
Very well remembered .i was watching from that Kop or hill at the Church Inn end so I wasn’t sure exactly what had happened down the Sandy Lane. From my view point the ball appear to go into the goal and then all hell broke loose, [Post edited 17 Aug 21:15]
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 19:02 17 Aug 2025
Possibly the only time I’ve seen a player sent off and then brought back on by the referee. At least he admitted his mistake. |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 12:41 17 Aug 2025
Very much like the chaos that erupted at the game v Blackburn Rovers in the early 1970’s. |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 20:38 14 Aug 2025
What struck me about Rees was he was keeping Big Reg relatively quiet before Gall got sent off. After that Brighton went all out for goals they left Rees at the back marking Big Reg and Don McKenzie, the Dale left winger, at the same time ! He actually managed them quite well. He looked to be a player with a big future to me. It was a tragedy he died at such young age. [Post edited 14 Aug 20:45]
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 13:06 14 Aug 2025
Correct. Do you remember the furore over the penalty in the first half. The Dale were attacking the Church Inn end, I was in the Sandy. There was an almighty scuffle in the goalmouth and the ball ended up in the back of the Brighton net. The ref gives a goal but the Brighton players say it went in through a hole in the roof of the net. They point out the hole and insist the ref go and consult his linesman. So he goes over, they have a chat, then the ref comes back and ————— gives the Dale a penalty for handball ! Cue loads more arguing from Brighton. Jimmy Thompson calmly waits for it to all die down, and then slots the penalty away.
Their star player that night, a young lad called Barry Rees, who had just joined them from Everton for big money died in a car crash a few weeks later. |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 10:08 13 Aug 2025
Brighton’s Norman Gall and Bert Lister having a wrestling match match that ended up with them falling over the barrier wall into the crowd in the same game. [Post edited 13 Aug 10:09]
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 10:47 12 Aug 2025
George would have been great in today’s football. A goal scoring midfield player. They had big expectations of him at Everton but he never quite made their first team |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 11:22 11 Aug 2025
That’d be a collectors item. Didn’t he score that penalty against Aston Villa ? |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 08:40 11 Aug 2025
Not a scorer of great goals but if we’re talking about entertainers- Norman Whitehead. When he was in the mood he looked absolutely top class. There was talk of Man City paying big bucks for him yet somehow his career petered out.
A bit like what happened with George Morton, the Dale turned down a big offer for him midway through the season only to release him at the end of the season |
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Reply | Favourite Dale goal
at 19:13 10 Aug 2025
The Big Reg free kick in that League Cup game at Bolton. It went in the far top corner like an arrow from out on the left wing. Roberto Carlos eat your heart out. |
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Reply | Pete Hannam RIP
at 09:34 26 Feb 2025
I was a classmate of Peters at Rochdale Technical School back in the early 1960’s. We had some great times together and I still have many happy memories of our years at the Tech. Most people won’t know this but Peter was a terrific schoolboy boxer who fought all the way to the English Schools Final where he unfortunately lost. We lost touch after leaving school but I alway think of him when I see his name on that wall of fame on the stairs in the main stand.
RIP Pete, thanks for the memories. |
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Reply | Hornets on Sunday
at 15:28 28 Apr 2022
339 appearances - that’s legend status. |
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