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26 All At Sea Issue 68
4 – Millwall H 13/14 CUP – Brilliant performance. So what they were a man down for half the game? We had them before that, even if wet tissue paper would have provided more resistance. This might only be this high because it might be the club’s last ever FA Cup win.
3 – Stevenage H Playoff 14/15
– Genius work from Corr. If he hadn’t missed that penalty we never would have got Timlin’s goal and that interview where he disgusted the eight people watching on TV. Well played Barry. The moment where it didn’t feel like we’d completely knackered ourselves two weeks previous and there was some optimism after the de ation that was the away/home defeat to Morecambe.
2–LutonH14/15– Butthisisthe moment where hope from Bury and Exeter turned into con dence that it was meant to be, after a urry of missed Luton chances, dropped points elsewhere and a goalkeeping howler. A typical gutsy 1-0 at home that became the basis of Brown’s success in the early years. Of course we then went and stu ed the whole run up at Morecambe the week after and made the whole run of success
feel like a massive waste of time. Much like the Brown era itself really. As the period writ small, just from a poetic standpoint this has to be up there.
1 – Bury A 14/15 – If Simon Hooper had done his job and given a penalty for that Jacobson push in normal time and we’d won the play-o nal 1-0 this obviously wouldn’t be top. Or if FIFA counted a win on penalties as a win. And when you’re celebrating the last-ditch tackles in injury time like goals in April you know you’re set up for a massive disappointment, even if it does show a killer #cleansheetmentality.
We should have known Bury were going up automatically and we weren’t there and then. But it’s times like this why we love football really. There was a bit of the promotion that felt destined with Worrall’s baby and his blinding free kick though. It was a great night, even if it was just blowing up a massive bubble to burst it. It would be remiss in the emotion of that night to pick anything else.
Andy Kilgour
Oan off day
N the morning of January 20th, postponement, but then four came along in
when news came through that
Southend’s game at Rochdale had been called o , who didn’t feel a pang of sympathy for those who had made the
long journey north?
Rochdale away in January is hardly one
we were all marking in our diaries when the xtures came out, but there still were plenty of Southend fans well on their way to Spotland when the call was made.
I’m happy to say I wasn’t one of them – I was o to Barnet to get drenched there instead – but it did remind me of a dismal run I had back in the early 2000s. Until then, I’d never been subjected to an on-the-day
the space of a year:
February 2001 – Plymouth (A)
A fantastic weekend was planned – two Plymouth fans and two Southend fans heading down to Devon for the weekend to watch our two very ordinary teams kick lumps out of each other before a night out in some unfortunate West Country town.
Well prepared for the train journey from Paddington, we had newspapers, cans and stodgy food. Everything was great until getting a text from a friend in Plymouth to say the game was o . By this time, we were nearly at Tiverton – too far to bother turning back. A quick scour of the newspapers revealed that Exeter were at home to Maccles eld, so we