Remember going with my dad to the Chelsea 5 1 win on a night game the same season, Berchin and Dillon doing the damage, going off in the ground and outside with Chelsea skinheads was madness, accidentally got caught up in a stone throwing battle after the game that was proper hairy
Great man Larry Lloyd (RIP), also Jimmy Sirrel. Couldn't understand why Liverpool sold Larry to Coventry in November '74. He was one of the very few players who actually went onto better things when he left the Reds. Always had a great respect for Notts County as one of the oldest clubs in the world and their former star man John Chiedozie.
What a great video, Jimmy held me spellbound 'you understand'. His face, his voice, what a wonderful man. Me and my Dad watched him with County on TV so many years ago, brought back so many sad but good memories. Brian Moore did his homework for sure, great interviewer.
A truly special man, whose loyalty and love for Notts County is evident in this memorable interview. Jack was known as a true gentleman, which indeed he was, and I was fortunate enough to know him as my Uncle Jack. Everyone in our family is so proud of what both he and Jimmy Sirrel achieved at Notts. It is fitting that a statue to both men greets those supporters coming to Meadow Lane.
The last all Nottingham affair to be played in the top flight. And the last Old First Division of the 91/92 Season. Then the greed league sorry Premier league, with Skysports With all its ugly fucking tentacles!!!
Great to see again, for the first time since I was there on the day….And to clear confusion the goalscorers Tommy Johnstone and Tommy Johnson are indeed the same person 😂
I see where the old Wimbledon side of the 1980s might have got their influence from . The first Birmingham goal is a goal like Wimbledon used to score.
For context - Blues went into this game knowing a win would guarantee promotion to the top flight, and a draw would all but guarantee it. As Chelsea did not score the 11 goals required against Oldham, the draw indeed was enough. The clip ends before the ref asks O'Brien for the ball, goes haring off to the tunnel, and only blows for full-time when he's half-way there - he knew what was coming...
I was in the away end at this game, another dreadful display by West Brom. I will always remember this game however, not for the match but for the train journey into Notts. I was traveling with 4 other Albion fan's when we're joined by around 20 County fan's who had boarded the train with just one more stop remaining of the journey. Their leader was big lad who had with him a youngster of around 12 at the very most. The main lad pointed at my friend and said to his young follower "Punch him in the face" upon turning to us and saying that each one of us was to be punched by their junior and if any of us retaliate then we'll be getting done in by the rest of their firm. So by luck I was last in line to be hit and I was aware that our stop was so close too. What happened next maybe wrong but I had no choice. Just as I was next to be hit the train doors opened giving me my chance. So I hit the lad as hard as I could sparking him cold, prompting us all to dive for the open door. The platform being safe due to the Police being everywhere. After that day I was called the sandman, because I put children to sleep too. But he was trying to be a Man so I treated him as so.
I remember the game rather well. A dreadful day weather-wise, which resulted in a rather sparse crowd of around 14,000, while Sunderland's performance/result seemed to match the awful conditions. It seemed our rather nightmarish 1994-95 campaign had hit a new low, what losing at home v the First Division's bottom club, who thus completed "the double". But in spite of this, County still suffered the misfortune of relegation come the end of the season, while we managed to avoid the drop, though only by a rather narrow margin, & not before yet another managerial change at Roker ....
Thank you for bringing back some great memories! In Finland people have always loved the English League (even more their own League). Games from England were shown on TV since the late 1960s on Saturdays. Aki Lahtinen was only the second Finnish player to play in England (after Pertti Jantunen who made eight appearances for Bristol City in the 1979-1980 season). For the fans in Finland it was exiting to have a Finnish player in their favourite league. Edit.: Actually the first Finnish player in the Football League was Mauno Rintanen. He made four appearances for Hull City in the Third Division (North) during the 1956-1957 season.
I wonder how well Jimmy Sirrel and Jimmy Frizzell knew each other and how they got on. I'm an old Oldham Athletic supporter, and we had some great battles against Notts County in the 1970s.
