Filbo- Harlow Town 1980

Twenty one years later, the Harlow goal scorer John Mackenzie was a businessman. And when he came round to my house for a party I shut the door in his face and told him to fuck off.
 
Memories of the replay :travelled down by car, found a pub with only a couple of people in it.
A couple of pints later it all kicked off with Leicester fans inside and outside.
On arriving along the side of the ground, with no ticket climbed over a small fence, only to be escorted to the corner where there was a gap for an entrance.

The moment I was ejected, was offered a ticket for face value, and walked straight back in.
Stood/ slid along the side on the mudbank for a terrace and watched us proceed to an abysmal 1 - 0 defeat.
Seem to remember spending most of the 2nd half looking over to the right of us at a large mob of Spurs fans looking for trouble.
Left the ground after the game , trying to avoid any confrontation.
All in all a very unenjoyable experience , among others over the years.
 
It did indeed, there seemed to be many times around that era, that hotdog stalls took a bit of a hammering.
 
The hot dog joint was nearly tipped over but not quite, the gezeer ran for his life leaving his guard dog to eat all the hot dogs, all the windows were smashed, boiling water everywhere, I managed to nick a load of warm cans of pop and a bag of dry cobs before the coppers arrived
 
No idea how that hotdog van stayed upright- remember the guy screaming for people to stop, could have been nasty.
I can see him now, Malc. His was terrified and the look on his face as he climbed through the serving hatch. We hung back to what would transpire, the owners turned up and looked a right pair of villans, not to be messed with.
 
Sat in the Stand! Got there with no ticket and someone sold me x2 at face value he got off Andy Peake. Thought they were knock offs but in we went.
 
Remember on the journey down to Harlow we got stuck in a traffic jam, in the car next to us was Graham Taylor, on his own going to watch the game as Watford were playing the winners, had a really good chat with him. Good bloke. Highlight of the evening 🙄
 
I remember the home game where people rang in radio Leicester to predict the score.
Most were going anywhere between about 5-0 & 10-0.
I was dumbfounded when some idiot phoned in to say City would only win 3-1, I thought it's Harlow we will batter them .
I had never heard of them and hadn't a clue where they were in the country.
There was some pretty grim cup performances in that era.....Walsall, Exeter, Bristol Rovers and a tonking at QPR where I recall a very slow Robbie James scoring a hat-trick against us.
 
I remember the home game where people rang in radio Leicester to predict the score.
Most were going anywhere between about 5-0 & 10-0.
I was dumbfounded when some idiot phoned in to say City would only win 3-1, I thought it's Harlow we will batter them .
I had never heard of them and hadn't a clue where they were in the country.
There was some pretty grim cup performances in that era.....Walsall, Exeter, Bristol Rovers and a tonking at QPR where I recall a very slow Robbie James scoring a hat-trick against us.
It was bloody freezing that day at QPR, the days of the artificial pitch
 
Remember everyone in the Athletic Stand had brand new red and white scarves! Plus every free kick they took was with a moving ball. Not that I'm still bitter....
 
Remember on the journey down to Harlow we got stuck in a traffic jam, in the car next to us was Graham Taylor, on his own going to watch the game as Watford were playing the winners, had a really good chat with him. Good bloke. Highlight of the evening 🙄
I remember that queue of traffic. We left Hinckley at 1pm didn't get there till 7
 
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