24-04-2015, 20:40
Shep, we played Pompey and they had the Cowshed that day, they still were in with a chance of promotion. They won 2-0 but still didn't win promotion, I'm sure Vince Hilaire scored for em too. Incidentally, this is the only time I've ever known the season run over, as we played Sheffield United midweek in our final game.
I don't buy into the conspiracy theory over the fire, that it was intentional. The saddest thing for me is that the club were continually warned over the accumulation of litter, coupled with the wooden stand and did bugger all about it, it was only a matter if time before it went up, it could have happened at any game that season. I have a book by Simon Inglis, on English football grounds, published the year before the fire, to which Inglis offers prophetic warning about the litter and the wooden stand.
I don't buy into the conspiracy theory over the fire, that it was intentional. The saddest thing for me is that the club were continually warned over the accumulation of litter, coupled with the wooden stand and did bugger all about it, it was only a matter if time before it went up, it could have happened at any game that season. I have a book by Simon Inglis, on English football grounds, published the year before the fire, to which Inglis offers prophetic warning about the litter and the wooden stand.
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