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On March 4th 1978 I celebrated my 21st birthday..... it was a saturday and we were at home to Bradford City.
We won (3 - 1 I think) and went top of the league..... It was the ONLY time that season we were top.
On the monday night Wrexham won and went back above us and we never caught them again.
STILL I can always say that PNE went top of the league on my 21st !

Today 12/4/22 is my eldest sons' 21st and though the 1st's can't got top obviously, the youth Team can WIN the League today.

Liam will always be able to remember 'we won the league on his 21st' - unless they don't win of course.

now I know it makes us seem 'sad' to remember what PNE did on our 21st BUT thats PNE Blood for you....

So, what did PNE do on your 21st ? ( sorry this doesnt apply to those on schoolhols!).

C O T Y T....win the league today !
 
Well we didn't play on my 21st Birthday. But I just checked the result closest to that date and, like most results that season (84/85), it wasn't good.

They DID play on my wedding day and on the day my first child was born. Both victories. Pre-internet, I had to ask a waiter to find out the score on my wedding day. On the day my little one was born, I have to admit to being a shit fan... I didn't find the score until several hours after the match had finished. So, sorry for that, and sorry for going off-topic!

Happy birthday to your lad.
 
My birthday is middle of July, so never any PNE games, though there have been a couple of World Cup finals on my birthday, I think .
 
I spent my 21st being sick on a boat all the way from heysham to the isle of man and all the way back again. The big all day drink fest I imagined never happened lol.
It took 45 years before I did the same journey again. Traumatised 🙂
 
Regardless said:
Well we didn't play on my 21st Birthday. But I just checked the result closest to that date and, like most results that season (84/85), it wasn't good.

They DID play on my wedding day and on the day my first child was born. Both victories. Pre-internet, I had to ask a waiter to find out the score on my wedding day. On the day my little one was born, I have to admit to being a shit fan... I didn't find the score until several hours after the match had finished. So, sorry for that, and sorry for going off-topic!

Happy birthday to your lad.
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My wedding day we played Swansea away and the waiter couldnt find the result...... only later did I discover it was rained off !!

The same day as the Grand National False Start fiasco.....
 
Not particularly fond memories of my 21st weekend. A 3-0 defeat at Hillsborough. We were awful. I think it was Peter Sayer’s debut.
What made it worse, travelling back from Sheffield, the windscreen wipers on the car failed. It was lashing down so we had to wait until it had stopped raining before we could continue the journey. It made me late for my 21st birthday party.
The whole season was a disaster, relegated at Derby on the last day. I was there for that one too ☹️
 
sports rehab said:
On March 4th 1978 I celebrated my 21st birthday..... it was a saturday and we were at home to Bradford City.
We won (3 - 1 I think) and went top of the league..... It was the ONLY time that season we were top.
On the monday night Wrexham won and went back above us and we never caught them again.
STILL I can always say that PNE went top of the league on my 21st !

Today 12/4/22 is my eldest sons' 21st and though the 1st's can't got top obviously, the youth Team can WIN the League today.

Liam will always be able to remember 'we won the league on his 21st' - unless they don't win of course.

now I know it makes us seem 'sad' to remember what PNE did on our 21st BUT thats PNE Blood for you....

So, what did PNE do on your 21st ? ( sorry this doesnt apply to those on schoolhols!).

C O T Y T....win the league today !
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I was on that Bradford game , I was 17 at the time…. A gang of about 5 or 6 of us use to go on, we would drink in the Adelphi ( that’s who we played Sunday league football for ) and then walk up to the ground via Walker St, Meadow St etc…

My underlying memory of that day is that it was a beautiful spring day and one of the lads in our group broke his ankle celebrating one of our goals !!

I hope that your lad has a great day !!
 
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