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21 years ago today

Post by MACCA » Thu May 06, 2021 1:00 pm

21 years ago today was that fantastic day at Scunthorpe, where we clinched authentic promotion.

Wow how it flies by, it means anyone under 21 has never seen us play outside of the top 2 divisions, lucky them!

Brief ( very ) highlights below, couldn't find extended highlights only the full game which is also linked below .... enjoy

https://youtu.be/yS5qSFGe_Qs

https://youtu.be/bPStdoauVng
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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Thu May 06, 2021 1:05 pm

Was possibly the last game I let someone else sort out my plans for an away day.

Had nothing to do transport and tickets were all being sorted. Went on a mini bus, arrived just after 10am, got very drunk, mini bus never returned after game resulting in jibbing a train to Manchester and having a ticket for their main stand.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by bfcjg » Thu May 06, 2021 1:21 pm

That 21 years has flown by. Quite an achievement that no one under 21 has seen us play in the bottom two divisions.
Don't know their born. 😁

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by gandhisflipflop » Thu May 06, 2021 1:25 pm

I was on the Turf with my dad for the big screen. Remember the tannoy person giving the HT results out and Accy Stanley's result in the non - league being read out. The nerves and the scenes at the end were special. Gillingham lost at Wrexham who were being managed by Brian Flynn I think at the time and they were already down but hung on to a 1-0 win if i remember right. Our game had finished first so had no idea in the days when people brought radios to grounds.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Eyres_11 » Thu May 06, 2021 1:28 pm

What a day. Not long finished GCSE's. Still got Jackson's (16 for scunthorpe) shirt somewhere as a momento haha

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Burnley1989 » Thu May 06, 2021 1:42 pm

My favourite away game as a kid, I was 11 and went on a mini bus. Played football on a pub car park before the game, the whole day from start to finish was great! I’ve all the newspaper cut outs as well which show me on my dads shoulders on the pitch! Not bad to say I didn’t even have a ticket, my dad just pulled me through the turnstile with him.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Cirrus_Minor » Thu May 06, 2021 2:16 pm

Mrs CM was at Turf Moorand was relaying the match progress, from the screen, by mobile to me in Brazil.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by martin_p » Thu May 06, 2021 2:24 pm

It’s incredible to me that we’ve spent so long out of the bottom two divisions given that the first 25 years of me watching the clarets was mainly third and fourth tier.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by martin_p » Thu May 06, 2021 2:30 pm

Meanwhile it’s now 60 years since Preston North End (the team that finished above us that season) played a top flight match :lol:

But lest we forget, they are superior.
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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Quicknick » Thu May 06, 2021 2:44 pm

I enjoyed watching Burnley in the 3rd and 4th tier, but I'm glad it's so long ago.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by martin_p » Thu May 06, 2021 2:46 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Thu May 06, 2021 2:44 pm
I enjoyed watching Burnley in the 3rd and 4th tier, but I'm glad it's so long ago.
So did I, but I think it has more to do with being in my teens/20s at the time with no responsibility and the opportunity to go to whichever match I wanted, home or away.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Covclaret » Thu May 06, 2021 3:18 pm

Hard to believe it’s 21 years ago, remember it better than yesterday. Cov claret junior had just been born but Mrs CovClaret was happy for me to travel up from Coventry to watch the game on the big screen at TM.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Stan Tastic » Thu May 06, 2021 7:50 pm

Totally outplayed by Gillingham in a 3-0 defeat at the Turf with just four games remaining and it looked all over for us.

We won all four remaining games and Gillingham missed out after their defeat at Wrexham.

I thought we'd beat Scunthorpe but I didn't expect Gillingham to lose to Wrexham after the job they'd done on us.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by lakedistrictclaret » Thu May 06, 2021 7:56 pm

Served that condescending sod Peter Taylor right.

Wasn't it after that Gillingham 3-0 game that he said to Stan something like "don't worry, Stan, you'll get it right".

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by bfcmik » Thu May 06, 2021 8:39 pm

I was well into my 20s before Burnley dropped out of the top 2 divisions for the 1st time in their history. My son, born in 1983, saw his, unfortunately solitary, 1st season in the (then) League 1 (I think) aged 11 or 12 and then again when he was 17. My grandkids have never known us play outside the top 2 divisions and 3 of them have only ever known us playing in the PL.

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Re: 21 years ago today

Post by Fretters » Thu May 06, 2021 9:58 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:
Thu May 06, 2021 7:56 pm
Served that condescending sod Peter Taylor right.

Wasn't it after that Gillingham 3-0 game that he said to Stan something like "don't worry, Stan, you'll get it right".
He was right, to be fair :lol:
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