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Chapter 9
Manchester 1 Sunderland 2: 11th May 1968
Saturday 11th May 1968 was a great day for Hartlepool United and I was there to witness it. The tiny Victoria Ground was packed to the gills for the match against Swansea Town with 11,000 fans celebrating the team’s first ever promotion to the old Division Three after years of being close to slipping out of the Football League altogether. They went on to win 2-0 and finished in third place though the groundwork for this achievement had been laid by Brian Clough, who’d managed them till leaving for Derby the year before. The
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