ITFC related really random things you remember 23:06 - Jan 12 with 2605 views | gainsboroughblue | 1. The referee who postponed our match at Hull in December 1989 due to a waterlogged pitch was A. Flood. 2. The Town mascot for our home game v Southampton, captained by Kevin Keegan, was a lad by the name of Kevin Keagan. Any more for any more? | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:09 - Jan 12 with 2020 views | FrimleyBlue | In Jan 2023 we needed a striker to help us to promotion to the championship. We brought in hirst. In Jan 2024 hirst is fked and we need a striker to get us promoted to the prem. Footballs a fked sport ain't it. | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:13 - Jan 12 with 2002 views | rgp1 | Sat in the away end at Burnley when some bloke jumped out of an aeroplane and crashed through the roof! | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:30 - Jan 12 with 1944 views | Zx1988 | Tranmere having to wear ITFC training kit at Portman Road in the late 90s, having not brought with them a non-clashing TRFC kit. Simpler times, eh?! | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:32 - Jan 12 with 1938 views | Illinoisblue | Alan Flood is impossible to forget as I was at Grantham services when it was called off. Went back, I think for the rearranged end of season game and we lost 3-4. | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:38 - Jan 12 with 1920 views | Fixed_It |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:13 - Jan 12 by rgp1 | Sat in the away end at Burnley when some bloke jumped out of an aeroplane and crashed through the roof! |
Wasn't he meant to be delivering the match ball to the centre-circle? | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:45 - Jan 12 with 1907 views | gainsboroughblue |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:32 - Jan 12 by Illinoisblue | Alan Flood is impossible to forget as I was at Grantham services when it was called off. Went back, I think for the rearranged end of season game and we lost 3-4. |
From memory, we literally used Grantham to turn around as we knew the game had gone about half an hour or so beforehand. Good old Radio 5 (may even have been the old radio 2 back then) told us. No Twitter or Facebook rolling news! | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:48 - Jan 12 with 1895 views | DarkBrandon |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:30 - Jan 12 by Zx1988 | Tranmere having to wear ITFC training kit at Portman Road in the late 90s, having not brought with them a non-clashing TRFC kit. Simpler times, eh?! |
Sure was. I remember that. I also remember an away game (Millwall??) where for some reason John Walk was wearing blue socks and the rest of the team wore white. I remember the chant “Walky, where are your white socks” | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 00:13 - Jan 13 with 1833 views | rgp1 |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:38 - Jan 12 by Fixed_It | Wasn't he meant to be delivering the match ball to the centre-circle? |
Yes he was and the kick off was delayed nearly an hour so the fire service could rescue him. 3-0 win on the opening day though. Trotter scored a couple. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
ITFC related really random things you remember on 00:29 - Jan 13 with 1784 views | EatonBlue | Referee from the 1960s/70s Maurice Fussey. He could run backwards really fast. Crowd loved him. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 00:52 - Jan 13 with 1732 views | stonojnr |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 23:30 - Jan 12 by Zx1988 | Tranmere having to wear ITFC training kit at Portman Road in the late 90s, having not brought with them a non-clashing TRFC kit. Simpler times, eh?! |
inspiring the "Youre not fit to wear our kit" chant iirc | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 01:01 - Jan 13 with 1722 views | Garv | When Danny Haynes fell into the photographer's pit just off the pitch at PR. | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 04:28 - Jan 13 with 1602 views | FrankMarshall | Signing Toure and Coke right at the deadline day | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 06:15 - Jan 13 with 1545 views | EastTownBlue |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 00:52 - Jan 13 by stonojnr | inspiring the "Youre not fit to wear our kit" chant iirc |
Yes. It was the usual 0-0 draw against Tranmere. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 08:12 - Jan 13 with 1466 views | _clive_baker_ | I remember us playing Reading (I think) in the 90’s and they had about 8 debutants in the side. It wasn’t the opening day either, I’m pretty sure it was mid season and they had literally signed all these in the past few days and cobbled a team together. Unsurprisingly we best them pretty comfortably. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 08:17 - Jan 13 with 1447 views | Menton | I remember a cat getting into the pitch versus I think Crewe c 1999? | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 09:51 - Jan 13 with 1353 views | Keno | Didn’t Colin Viljeon have a thing about not kicking a ball in the warm in case he got injured but then pull a hamstring or something doing his stretching exercises | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 09:57 - Jan 13 with 1344 views | HungryLikeTheWoolf | Doncaster away in the league cup, game was 1-1 after 90 minutes. Larsen Toure gave his shirt to a fan in the crowd, before having to ask for it back to play extra time. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:03 - Jan 13 with 1320 views | bluesym | In the 80s,the old boy who used to walk round the perimeter ofc the pitch selling Golden Goal tickets | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:05 - Jan 13 with 1312 views | Sharkey | More serious, sorry, but for some reason I remember the Anfield stewards applauding the Town fans for respecting the minute’s silence for Jamie Bulger, as if the respect wasn’t a given. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:05 - Jan 13 with 1303 views | hoppy |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 08:17 - Jan 13 by Menton | I remember a cat getting into the pitch versus I think Crewe c 1999? |
The original Tabby? | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:14 - Jan 13 with 1272 views | Churchman | Those little blue electric cars by the side of the pitch (they were called Invacars) The St John Ambulance guys. One was very small, one a lot bigger. Peril for the poor bloke on the stretcher Letters for the half time scores at other games. Rarely right, often not bothered with. The Opera singer belting out a few good tunes before the FA Cup Semi Final at Highbury Snow covered pitch and an orange ball. Those were the days. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:19 - Jan 13 with 1262 views | _clive_baker_ |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:05 - Jan 13 by Sharkey | More serious, sorry, but for some reason I remember the Anfield stewards applauding the Town fans for respecting the minute’s silence for Jamie Bulger, as if the respect wasn’t a given. |
Sadly, it probably wasn’t among some fans. Never ceases to amaze me the level of tw@t you see at football matches. On a similar theme the standing ovation for Billy Sharp in 2011 when he put Doncaster 2-0 up at PR a few days after losing his baby. Choked me up a bit then and I didn’t have kids, think it would finish me off nowadays. | | | |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:32 - Jan 13 with 1228 views | patrickswell |
ITFC related really random things you remember on 10:19 - Jan 13 by _clive_baker_ | Sadly, it probably wasn’t among some fans. Never ceases to amaze me the level of tw@t you see at football matches. On a similar theme the standing ovation for Billy Sharp in 2011 when he put Doncaster 2-0 up at PR a few days after losing his baby. Choked me up a bit then and I didn’t have kids, think it would finish me off nowadays. |
The applause inspired a belief among some fans that Sharp would sign for us one day, given that he was moved to thank the crowd for it in a post match interview. 37 years old and just moved to Hull City. If Evans still owned us, we’d probably be making enquiries about him this month. [Post edited 13 Jan 11:00]
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 11:03 - Jan 13 with 1166 views | FBI | The insane game against Manchester United with our six goals, retaken penalties and, if I remember right, a hilarious Martin Buchan handball. Allan Hunter having to change his ripped shorts on the pitch, mid match. "Ipswich, Ipswich, you'll get a kick out of Ipswich, Ipswich..." on the tannoy. The old boy who used to shout, "Play the whistle, Towen!" to collective bemusement behind the goal in Churchman's. | |
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ITFC related really random things you remember on 11:08 - Jan 13 with 1134 views | Superblue95 | Adam McDonnell not being able to play for us for absolutely ages due to a ‘fifa red tape issue’ with Mick saying on occasions he’d have been in the squad for matches if he could pick him. Then once he was finally eligible, never getting anywhere near a match day squad and being binned off to Aldershot. | |
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