Rothmans Handbook 1987-88

[Green]

Oct9th
Queen of South secure future for next 125 years. They've leased car park for a supermarket to be built. Rent will exceed club's home takings

Doesn't sound very secure to me.

[wolsey]

And also wasn't it the season of Readings highest ever FL placing at that time (13th in division 2).

No, in 77/8 we won the Simod and were relegated.

He is refering to the 86/7 season.

I know - see above edit

[Tony Le Mesmer]

I love this book:

Winners of the Vauxhall Opal League Premier (Ishmian):
16th in Div 1 of the above:

any guesses. Must get some work done

Wealdstone at a guess. Wokingham 16th?

[SWLR]

Oct9th
Queen of South secure future for next 125 years. They've leased car park for a supermarket to be built. Rent will exceed club's home takings

Doesn't sound very secure to me.

No mention here of financial troubles.

http://www.qosfc.com/history

Then again looks pretty derilict building to me

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h& ... urce=embed

[SWLR]

I love this book:

Winners of the Vauxhall Opal League Premier (Ishmian):
16th in Div 1 of the above:

any guesses. Must get some work done

Wealdstone at a guess. Wokingham 16th?

Nope Wycombe Wanderers
R-up - Yeovil
17th - W'ham
18th in Div 1 - Stevenage

Scarborough won the Conference

[royal tee]

No mention here of financial troubles.

http://www.qosfc.com/history

Then again looks pretty derilict building to me

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h& ... urce=embed

Was in Dumfries a couple of weeks ago - don't think any of those buildings are derelict. Which were you referring to ?

[SWLR]

No mention here of financial troubles.

http://www.qosfc.com/history

Then again looks pretty derilict building to me

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h& ... urce=embed

Was in Dumfries a couple of weeks ago - don't think any of those buildings are derelict. Which were you referring to ?

What I took to be the 'supermarket'. Google must have filmed it when closed.

[Royal With Cheese]

Wasn't this also the season of the first automatic relegation to the Conference and weren't Lincoln the first team to be relegated following some canine shenanigans at Torquay on the final day (as I recall Torquay's 2-2 draw with Crewe on the last day sent Lincoln down but Torquay's equaliser came in the last minute of 5 minutes injury time added on by the ref after a player was bitten by a police dog)player bitten was Jim McNichol. Goal scored by Paul Dobson.

And also wasn't it the season of Readings highest ever FL placing at that time (13th in division 2)yep, probably why I bought it.

Ditto! I'll have to dig it up and have a good forage.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

It is strange looking through those old yearbooks. I only have one Rothmans left (80/81) and it can be bizarre.

April 7th Div 4, Aldershot 1 Portsmouth 2, att: 11,989

Barnsley FC Car Park fee: 10p

Extra Info on Carlisle page: in 1949 player-manager Ivor Broadis transferred himself to Sunderland for £18000.

[Jackson Corner]

Anything about average ticket prices?

Not quoted, but I saw two teams set 'record receipts' that sesason

Coventry v Liverpool in League Cup (4th) - £101K, Crowd 26,300 = Avg £3.83
West Ham Vs Spuds in League Cup (Qtr) - £146K, Crowd 28,648 - Avg £5.09

This never gets mentioned anymore. Rothmans always used to have a clubs record receipts. I don't know what the Mad Stads is. I wuld guess the cup replay against United 07?

[Four Of Clubs]

I love this book:

Winners of the Vauxhall Opal League Premier (Ishmian):
16th in Div 1 of the above:

any guesses. Must get some work done

Wealdstone at a guess. Wokingham 16th?

...nay bad TLM - spot on with Wokkers - Wealdstone were 19th in the Conference that season (its first being having been rebranded from Alliance Premier) Scarborough were champions Barnet runners-up - Lincoln relegated from FL - Imps then won Conference in 87/88 - Barnet again the 'Bridesmaids'.

Pos Name Pld W D L GF GA Pts
1 Wycombe Wanderers 42 32 5 5 103 32 101
2 Yeovil Town 42 28 8 6 71 27 92
3 Slough Town 42 23 8 11 70 44 77
4 Hendon 42 22 7 13 67 53 73
5 Bognor Regis Town 42 20 10 12 85 61 70
6 Harrow Borough 42 20 10 12 68 44 70
7 Croydon 42 18 10 14 51 48 64
8 Barking 42 16 14 12 76 56 62
9 Farnborough Town 42 17 11 14 66 72 62
10 Bishop's Stortford 42 15 15 12 62 57 60
11 Bromley 42 16 11 15 63 72 59
12 Kingstonian 42 16 9 17 58 50 57
13 Windsor & Eton 42 13 15 14 47 52 54
14 St Albans City 42 14 9 19 61 70 51
15 Carshalton Athletic 42 13 9 20 55 68 48
16 Wokingham Town 42 14 6 22 47 61 48
17 Hayes 42 12 12 18 45 68 48
18 Dulwich Hamlet 42 12 10 20 62 71 46
19 Tooting & Mitcham United 42 12 9 21 41 53 45
20 Hitchin Town 42 13 5 24 56 69 44
21 Worthing 42 8 9 25 58 107 33
22 Walthamstow Avenue 42 4 6 32 36 113 18

... folds anorak over arm and retreats quietly back to NL thread.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Can beat that - I've got the Rothmans that covered season 1973/74

In this month (October 1973)

1st - Birmingham paid a record fee for a goalkeeper; £100k for Gary Sprake from Leeds
2nd - League Cup Round 2: Arsenal 0-1 Tranmere Rovers
4th - Reported that Alan Ball sustained an injury v Tranmere and is doubtful for England v Poland WC Qualifier
5th - Rodney Marsh said that football in England would be non-existant in 10 years
8th - Ron Greenwood denied reports he was about to resign from West Ham
10th - After criticising West Ham in a newspaper article their keeper, Bobby Ferguson, is transfer listed.
11th - Alf Ramsey's request to postpone league games before the England match is rejected on the grounds clubs would suffer financial loss
12th - Ex Reading manager Harry Johnston died aged 54
13th - Alan Hardaker said after the leagues decision not to postpone matches that it's only a football match and that if England lost to Poland it';s not the end of the world and that everyone will have forgotton about it in 6 weeks
15th - Clough and Taylor resign from Derby County
16th - Ian Bowyer moved from Orient to Forest for £40k
17th - England claim 1-1 draw with Poland and fail to qualify for the WC Finals in West Germany in 1974
19th - Derek Hales moves to Charlton from Luton for £10k
20th - Fan demonstrations at Derby after Clough and Taylor's departure
21st - ROI beat Poland 1-0 in a friendly in Dublin
22nd - Brighton sack Pat Saward but the manager says he still considers himself in charge of the club
23rd - Dave Mackay appointed to the Derby manager's job. The Derby first team squad stage a sit in in protest and the police are called to clear the crowd
25th - Bobby Tambling leaves Crystal Palace to join Cork Hibernians and also work as a Jehovah's witness missionary
28th - Australia draw 0-0 with South Korea in Sydney and are booed off the pitch
Spurs propose a swap deal (Chivers for Marsh) to Man City but Marsh is not interested.
31st - League Cup Round 3 - WBA 1-3 Exeter City

Leeds, Middlesbrough, Oldham and Peterborough won the 4 leagues in England while Celtic and Aidrie won the 2 Scottish divisions

[Alexander Litvinenko]

Years ago I started collecting Rothmans, off ebay and old book shops. Before I lost interest in it I managed to get all of them from 1971/2 except 3 or 4.

[handbags_harris]

Thing that just struck me of the team photos, very few black faces - many squads had none. Reading 2: Cannoville & Richardson.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Won that game 3-2. Huddersfield were to be the only club below us that season. Believe we had to come from behind to win the game and that Colin Baillie scored.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

[quote="Jackson Corner]This never gets mentioned anymore. Rothmans always used to have a clubs record receipts. I don't know what the Mad Stads is. I wuld guess the cup replay against United 07?[/quote]

I know cup games force everyone to buy a "full price" ticket (rather than it being 1/19th of their ST price) however Cup games are generally a lot cheaper than league games so my guess would be the highest league attendance - that being the Spurs game last month.

[Jackson Corner]

[quote="Jackson Corner]This never gets mentioned anymore. Rothmans always used to have a clubs record receipts. I don't know what the Mad Stads is. I wuld guess the cup replay against United 07?[/quote]

I know cup games force everyone to buy a "full price" ticket (rather than it being 1/19th of their ST price) however Cup games are generally a lot cheaper than league games so my guess would be the highest league attendance - that being the Spurs game last month.[/quote]

I do know the Chelsea league cup tie around 03? Was at the time the biggest gate/receipts. Have never heard receipts mentioned since? Maybe they don't want the tax men to know?