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Belfast Town
April 25, 2020, 7:38pm
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Town drew 0-0 at Mansfield on 26 April 1980 to secure promotion to Division 2 (now the Championship).

My abiding memory, among the carnage in the away end, was a copper emerging from the massed ranks of Town fans with GTFC chalked on the back of his uniform!

Fantastic season, which of course ended with the 4-0 home win against Sheffield United to make Town champions.
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Was a great day. Seemed to take ages for us to clinch promotion that year, kept drawing instead of winning.


Wearing badges is not enough in days like these!
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Jackie Lewis
April 25, 2020, 8:28pm
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJaRxl29dp8&t=146s

Wasn’t a great game but good scenes of Town fans celebrating on the pitch
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Quoted from Jackie Lewis
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJaRxl29dp8&t=146s

Wasn’t a great game but good scenes of Town fans celebrating on the pitch


I didn’t remember it being on TV. Thanks for posting. It was one of those days when the result was more important than the game. The following week was one of the best to have experienced as a Town fan!
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It was and I must have made a couple of quid with all the 10ps that the Sheff Utd fans threw at us the main stand
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April 26, 2020, 4:48am

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Quoted from Belfast Town
Town drew 0-0 at Mansfield on 26 April 1980 to secure promotion to Division 2 (now the Championship).

My abiding memory, among the carnage in the away end, was a copper emerging from the massed ranks of Town fans with GTFC chalked on the back of his uniform!

Fantastic season, which of course ended with the 4-0 home win against Sheffield United to make Town champions.


Fantastic days indeed and awesome memories for me.
I had spent most of the season after Christmas in Kent during the steel strike while picketing at Sheerness.
We were billeted in Canterbury, Gillingham and later Herne Bay, travelling each day for our 12 hours of duty in the bitter cold.
The stories I could tell of those weeks.
Town were pushing for promotion and I came home as I was really missing football and friends.
The first game was Millwall and I was in Darleys on Gy Rd when a mob of Millwall came in, all with painted green heads which rang a bell with me as the Scunthorpe and Welsh steelworkers used to fight on a nearly nightly basis on Herne bay beach with the locals from Herne Bay and Faversham, a pebble beach, you can imagine the claret spilled.
This mad mob also had green heads, I had to ask and yes it was them, absolutely bizarre but they bought me and my mates beer until kick off.
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April 26, 2020, 5:35am
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I'm gutted.  I must have gone to that Sheff U game but can hardly remember it. Just faint recollections.  Scorers please?
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Great to see shirts without sponsorship plastered all over the front, no players names either just a discreet McGarry Turf Accountant on the staff's tops and I always liked it when we played in white shorts


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Quoted from GYinScuntland


Fantastic days indeed and awesome memories for me.
I had spent most of the season after Christmas in Kent during the steel strike while picketing at Sheerness.
We were billeted in Canterbury, Gillingham and later Herne Bay, travelling each day for our 12 hours of duty in the bitter cold.
The stories I could tell of those weeks.
Town were pushing for promotion and I came home as I was really missing football and friends.
The first game was Millwall and I was in Darleys on Gy Rd when a mob of Millwall came in, all with painted green heads which rang a bell with me as the Scunthorpe and Welsh steelworkers used to fight on a nearly nightly basis on Herne bay beach with the locals from Herne Bay and Faversham, a pebble beach, you can imagine the claret spilled.
This mad mob also had green heads, I had to ask and yes it was them, absolutely bizarre but they bought me and my mates beer until kick off.


I lived in Herne Bay for a year and a bit as as student. Fur king cold in the winter.

In the Summer I used to go to the laundrette which was near the beach bung my washing in the machine, strip off down to my trunks and threw my clothes in then nip over to the sea for a swim. I reckon an ad exec must have seen it and been inspired to create that jeans ad 😂😂😂


Through the door there came familiar laughter,
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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April 26, 2020, 12:04pm
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I'm gutted.  I must have gone to that Sheff U game but can hardly remember it. Just faint recollections.  Scorers please?


Drinkell hat-trick but cannot recall who got the fourth 😄
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