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The Red Darreners · 10-11-2013, 15:19

It was one of the games that got me back into football after despairingly giving up on it given the obscene amounts generated in the game and the utter lack of empathy or consideration by bigger clubs to smaller. (My history having been Stockport and Oldham,who reached the promised land of the top league just at the point that the tide turned.)
Watched on TV soon after moving to Darwen. Spilt my guinness over the sofa when Gouck scored. Stanley at this point became the team I kept an eye on in terms of results/ personnel but I / we didnt succumb to the bug properly until 2010.

I remember a wonderful old history of the football league the beeb put on in 1988. In one episode football sage Rogan Taylor made a simple but profound comment that to me at least still holds true:
"There are 92 clubs in the Football League and the thing they all have in common is that they are all named after places"

Nowhere and at no time have I felt that sense of community more strongly than I do at the Crown; Taylor's remark crept into my head a decade ago during and after that game: it did again yesterday during the silence. It's never too far away when I consider the Reds.

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The Red Darreners Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 67 Liked: 131 times Rep Power: 0	Re: It's my 10th anniversary! It was one of the games that got me back into football after despairingly giving up on it given the obscene amounts generated in the game and the utter lack of empathy or consideration by bigger clubs to smaller. (My history having been Stockport and Oldham,who reached the promised land of the top league just at the point that the tide turned.) Watched on TV soon after moving to Darwen. Spilt my guinness over the sofa when Gouck scored. Stanley at this point became the team I kept an eye on in terms of results/ personnel but I / we didnt succumb to the bug properly until 2010. I remember a wonderful old history of the football league the beeb put on in 1988. In one episode football sage Rogan Taylor made a simple but profound comment that to me at least still holds true: "There are 92 clubs in the Football League and the thing they all have in common is that they are all named after places" Nowhere and at no time have I felt that sense of community more strongly than I do at the Crown; Taylor's remark crept into my head a decade ago during and after that game: it did again yesterday during the silence. It's never too far away when I consider the Reds.