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Top first game that!
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Didn’t Stuart Pilling score in the first minute?
Yes we timed it at about 12 seconds – I was doing the ‘shot list’ for Harold Caine the photographer who was filming for Yorkshire TV. We were positioned at the bottom right corner of the cantilever.
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For what it is worth, here is my contribution….
Best memory for me was watching Scunthorpe live on TV beat Millwall in the 2009 League One Play-off Final at Wembley. I was in Melbourne on a work trip when the match came on the hotel TV at 11pm. After becoming interested in Scunthorpe United and following their progress over about 30 years (from afar in Australia), it was the first time I had ever watched the Club play a match. The Playoff was an exciting match, with great goals and a fantastic result.
Second best memory (but unlikely to get votes from anyone else) was seeing Scunthorpe play WBA in a pre-season friendly in 2019. I was on holiday in the UK so it is the first, and only, time I have been to the ground and seen the Club play live.
Incidently, Matt Sparrow and Andy Keogh now live in Perth.
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We have Iron fans far and wide! :-)
What drew you to Scunthorpe, out of interest, smartm?
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Honestly, as a young boy living in Perth in the 70s I used to read the Football Tables in the sports pages of the local Sunday Newspaper and the name stood out. I wondered who would name their town Scunthorpe, where it was, and what it was like. It was as simple as that.
I followed the progress of the Club like that for a long time, and then with the advent of the internet information has become so much easier to access. So I’ve learnt a lot more about the Club, the town and following progress became a lot easier.
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maybe you can give us some stories on that episode NI living up there.
I was in my last year at college. I went with a couple of neutral mates and for reasons I can’t recall went in the rather partisan Gallowgate End, which in 1974 was still a standing only terrace.
Remember Chris Simpkin clattering SuperMac early on, then when Nolan Keeley scored I went down on my knees, waving both fists in the air. My two mates moved away, and then I realised I was surrounded by several thousand Geordies.
I was expecting a good kicking but they just looked down at me and shook their heads.
McDermott’s equaliser was a hell of a shot. Neil Warnock could have won it for us but with McFaul lying on his back and the goal wide open he narrowly missed the corner flag!
Never made it down to the replay, of which I wasn’t too disappointed.
The previous year I’d been at Roker Park when we beat Hartlepool 2-1 in a second replay after two 0-0 draws.
Replays eh? Tell today’s kids about it and they won’t believe you!
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The game at Huddersfield when we beat ‘em 4-1 was a great night ( Beagrie , Keogh,Sharp,Sparrow game)
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A certain KK kicked their arses at Wembley that’s why Awaywego, I absolutely luved it luved it when the Geordies got beat. Nice one, sorry two, Kev
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Deereyme66, I was born in London and emigrated as a child with my parents. This explains my interest in English Football (soccer) as well as Australian Rules Football.
I watched the Playoff game again a few weeks ago and it was such an entertaining match; it would have been great to have been there!2 users thanked author for this post.
Some of us were at Wembley a few weeks earlier to watch us lose the JPT to a Luton side that were on their way out of the Football League.
Oh, to swap places with them now!
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@ OSG against Leyton Orient. 3-2 what a turnaround.
Or Mike Lester jumping on the wall to celebrate his goal against Leeds.
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I watched the Playoff game again a few weeks ago and it was such an entertaining match; it would have been great to have been there!
Hi smartm, it certainly was. When Wooly scored the winning goal, our supporters went absolutely crazy and my mate Steve’s glasses got knocked off. God knows how they survived with everyone jumping up and down!
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When we won at Wembley in 1999 I lifted my son up. When we won in 2009 he lifted me up!
One of the joys of being a dad!
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