| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) 22:11 - Aug 1 with 1204 views | Miaow |
Barely 12,000 at Villa Park less than three years after they'd won the European Cup.
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 22:17 - Aug 1 with 1138 views | rgp1 |
I was at that 0-0 draw with Liverpool in the Pioneer. Should have won that day. Mark Brennan clean through on goal with only Grobbelaar to beat when he's rugby tackled to the ground by Alan Hansen. An utter disgrace which today of course would have been a straight red. |  | | |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 22:31 - Aug 1 with 1070 views | Mark |
Gosh, six Division Two (Championship) matches with attendances under 5,000! It really goes to show how the game has grown, even taking into account that the UK population is about 20% higher than it was then. |  | | |
| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 22:43 - Aug 1 with 1022 views | unstableblue |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 22:17 - Aug 1 by rgp1 |
I was at that 0-0 draw with Liverpool in the Pioneer. Should have won that day. Mark Brennan clean through on goal with only Grobbelaar to beat when he's rugby tackled to the ground by Alan Hansen. An utter disgrace which today of course would have been a straight red. |
Paul Cooper
George Burley
Irvin Gernon
Romeo Zondervan
Kevin Steggles
Terry Butcher
Alan Sunderland
Mark Brennan
Mich D'Avray
Tommy Parkin
Eric Gates
End of Robson era players… and the new guard coming through… Brennan, Zondervan, Sunderland
Putney and alike came next… then onto Kevin Wilson etc
The above wasn’t bad and probably the first team I really watched heavily…
Portman Road became a little lifeless as it seems did the wider league… mid 80s doldrums
Do hope McKenna can reinvigorate this team and home fan base… and make this another atmospheric and memorable season. |  |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 22:45 - Aug 1 with 997 views | Illinoisblue |
Only 17k at Elland Road. Leeds in fact wouldn’t have taken more |  |
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| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 22:47 - Aug 1 with 992 views | rgp1 |
| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 22:43 - Aug 1 by unstableblue |
Paul Cooper
George Burley
Irvin Gernon
Romeo Zondervan
Kevin Steggles
Terry Butcher
Alan Sunderland
Mark Brennan
Mich D'Avray
Tommy Parkin
Eric Gates
End of Robson era players… and the new guard coming through… Brennan, Zondervan, Sunderland
Putney and alike came next… then onto Kevin Wilson etc
The above wasn’t bad and probably the first team I really watched heavily…
Portman Road became a little lifeless as it seems did the wider league… mid 80s doldrums
Do hope McKenna can reinvigorate this team and home fan base… and make this another atmospheric and memorable season. |
Yes it certainly was in the doldrums. In fact at the start of the next season most of the first 2 months of the season had no tv coverage due to a dispute. I think you'll find the only coverage available is probably on VHS from individual clubs. If you remember most of our crowds were around the 11k mark. | | | |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 07:32 - Aug 2 with 661 views | ITFC_Forever |
Hooliganism was rife (although generally not at Portman Rd), stadiums were decades old and decaying and many inner cities were pretty poor.
The mid-80s were not a boom time for football. |  |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 08:27 - Aug 2 with 548 views | monkeymagic |
Many of the Div 2 attendances were shockingly low. I see Paul Jewell scored for Wigan but perhaps more interesting was Neville Chamberlain nearly coming back a hero from a trip abroad. | | | |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 08:57 - Aug 2 with 487 views | Bobbychase |
Some massive clubs in there who must have counted their attendances wrong, or maybe everyone was down the shops |  |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:06 - Aug 2 with 451 views | NthQldITFC |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 08:57 - Aug 2 by Bobbychase |
Some massive clubs in there who must have counted their attendances wrong, or maybe everyone was down the shops |
...or still at home trying to refresh Ceefax in the early days of the Hayden Hackney transfer saga? |  |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:10 - Aug 2 with 433 views | Bobbychase |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:06 - Aug 2 by NthQldITFC |
...or still at home trying to refresh Ceefax in the early days of the Hayden Hackney transfer saga? |
Quite possibly.
Everton and Man Utd decent crowds in there, West Ham and Newcastle a bit exposed. | |
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| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 09:42 - Aug 2 with 382 views | bluelagos |
| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 22:43 - Aug 1 by unstableblue |
Paul Cooper
George Burley
Irvin Gernon
Romeo Zondervan
Kevin Steggles
Terry Butcher
Alan Sunderland
Mark Brennan
Mich D'Avray
Tommy Parkin
Eric Gates
End of Robson era players… and the new guard coming through… Brennan, Zondervan, Sunderland
Putney and alike came next… then onto Kevin Wilson etc
The above wasn’t bad and probably the first team I really watched heavily…
Portman Road became a little lifeless as it seems did the wider league… mid 80s doldrums
Do hope McKenna can reinvigorate this team and home fan base… and make this another atmospheric and memorable season. |
That team really shows the decline from the Uefa cup side -
Irvin Gernon, Kevin Steggles, Tommy Parkin and Mich (Marradobbin) D'vray ffs
I shall be reminding my scouse mates that they couldn't beat us next time we meet up for a pint :-) |  |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:42 - Aug 2 with 388 views | bsw72 |
I remember that season well, football was probably at its lowest ebb in this country, we’d failed to qualify for Euro 84, hooliganism was rife, all English fans were tarnished with the same reputation.
Culminated with the Heysel Stadium deaths and saw English teams kicked out of Europe, Thatcher twisting the knife further, even talk of England being prevented from Mexico 86 qualifying. In hindsight the fact the WC was in Mexico probably helped by reducing the number of travelling thugs.
Was a pretty horrible time to be a fan if I’m honest.
Sadly nothing improved until after Hillsborough, and even then it was a battle against the negative press.
Bobby Robson gets a lot of credit from Town fans but I don’t think people realise he saved English football with the team he sent to Italia ‘90 and the feel good factor it produced. [Post edited 2 Aug 9:43]
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:52 - Aug 2 with 341 views | Radlett_blue |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:42 - Aug 2 by bsw72 |
I remember that season well, football was probably at its lowest ebb in this country, we’d failed to qualify for Euro 84, hooliganism was rife, all English fans were tarnished with the same reputation.
Culminated with the Heysel Stadium deaths and saw English teams kicked out of Europe, Thatcher twisting the knife further, even talk of England being prevented from Mexico 86 qualifying. In hindsight the fact the WC was in Mexico probably helped by reducing the number of travelling thugs.
Was a pretty horrible time to be a fan if I’m honest.
Sadly nothing improved until after Hillsborough, and even then it was a battle against the negative press.
Bobby Robson gets a lot of credit from Town fans but I don’t think people realise he saved English football with the team he sent to Italia ‘90 and the feel good factor it produced. [Post edited 2 Aug 9:43]
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Yes, but the plus was that getting into football was dirt cheap, especially if you went on the terraces, nearly all weekend kick offs were Saturday 3pm, most grounds were in town centres near a railway station & train travel was also dirt cheap (& the main reason for the ITFC Supporters London branch flourishing. |  |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 10:00 - Aug 2 with 306 views | bsw72 |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 09:52 - Aug 2 by Radlett_blue |
Yes, but the plus was that getting into football was dirt cheap, especially if you went on the terraces, nearly all weekend kick offs were Saturday 3pm, most grounds were in town centres near a railway station & train travel was also dirt cheap (& the main reason for the ITFC Supporters London branch flourishing. |
Football was cheap, but the grounds were also cr4p, you got what you paid for. People look back with rose tinted glasses on some of it but it could be a pretty awful experience.
I don’t miss those days particularly. It’s bizarre when you think how much football now costs if you consider the underlying product has not really changed functionally (90 mis, same rules etc), while facilities and quality of game have. | | | |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 10:26 - Aug 2 with 235 views | Radlett_blue |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 10:00 - Aug 2 by bsw72 |
Football was cheap, but the grounds were also cr4p, you got what you paid for. People look back with rose tinted glasses on some of it but it could be a pretty awful experience.
I don’t miss those days particularly. It’s bizarre when you think how much football now costs if you consider the underlying product has not really changed functionally (90 mis, same rules etc), while facilities and quality of game have. |
The difference now is that the PL now attracts many of the best players in the world, whereas in the 1980s many of the best British players played in Italy, Spain or Germany - Francis, Brady, Wilkins, Souness, Hoddle, Lineker etc so our clubs didn't even have the best players from the British isles. | |
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| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 10:54 - Aug 2 with 176 views | rgp1 |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 10:00 - Aug 2 by bsw72 |
Football was cheap, but the grounds were also cr4p, you got what you paid for. People look back with rose tinted glasses on some of it but it could be a pretty awful experience.
I don’t miss those days particularly. It’s bizarre when you think how much football now costs if you consider the underlying product has not really changed functionally (90 mis, same rules etc), while facilities and quality of game have. |
Some facilities were indeed grim. I remember the open air bogs in the Darwin End at Blackburn. I also believe one or two other northern grounds had the same. | | | |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 11:02 - Aug 2 with 139 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
That Neville Chamberlain didn't know the meaning of the word surrender, did he?
Two comeback goals for Newport in the space of a few days!
Poignant to see both our 1978 FA Cup Final strikers on the score sheet on the same day, but not for us. | | | |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 11:04 - Aug 2 with 127 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Results and attendances from the Football League (back end of the 84/85 season) on 08:27 - Aug 2 by monkeymagic |
Many of the Div 2 attendances were shockingly low. I see Paul Jewell scored for Wigan but perhaps more interesting was Neville Chamberlain nearly coming back a hero from a trip abroad. |
I should have read all the replies before posting my own Chamberlain quip. | | | |
| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 11:05 - Aug 2 with 126 views | NthQldITFC |
| Mark Brennan… that takes me back… the team that day was… on 09:42 - Aug 2 by bluelagos |
That team really shows the decline from the Uefa cup side -
Irvin Gernon, Kevin Steggles, Tommy Parkin and Mich (Marradobbin) D'vray ffs
I shall be reminding my scouse mates that they couldn't beat us next time we meet up for a pint :-) |
Some cracking taches in there too; Zondervan, Sunderland, Steggles? - and did d'Avray have one too or am I thinking of the copper in Allo! Allo!? "I was just pissing by the ghoul when I did a brilliant diving header past Grobelaar" | |
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