Derby County 1981?
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We did Ando . I was at that game. The Cardiff game was a draw I think which was good enough for them ☹️
Think it was Roy McFarland’s last game for Derby as well?
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I thought the game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. Also, I'm pretty certain, West Ham missed a penalty against Cardiff, who required a point to avoid relegation at our expense. They drew 0-0.
I was there. Don’t remember much about the game but did one of our players think that Cardiff had lost and was devastated when told we were down ? Maybe I’m imagining it. It was a good trip there but a depressing drive back. It was of course the start of a major decline.
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Nothing to do with the FA Cup, The semi-finals were on April 11th. It may have been called off simply because of the pitch.
West Ham had nothing to play for as they were already promoted which did us no favours. However, I suppose that Cardiff were equally brassed off in 1972-73 after PNE's "hard-fought" draw against Champions Burnley.
West Ham had nothing to play for as they were already promoted which did us no favours. However, I suppose that Cardiff were equally brassed off in 1972-73 after PNE's "hard-fought" draw against Champions Burnley.
Relegated and doomed never to return for 19 years.
They may have made sure the fixtures were played at the same time.
Can't remember when the rule came in that all the final fixtures had to be played at the same time.
Certainly hadn't come in in 1978 when Peterborough's final fixture was 2 days after ours.
Didn't used to be too unusual for teams to finish their season on different days.
Funnily enough checking the records all four teams went out in the third round of the Cup.
Some things don't change.
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That could have been John Blackley?
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Highly unlikely as this was not a feature of football then, Even in the 1982 World Cup the last group games were not played at the same time. Austria and Germany played out a contrived 1-0 win for the latter in the group stage to ensure both their progression at the expense of Algeria.
Yeah, i remember that ....... bizarre
I went to the Baseball ground that night was gutted coming away.
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No , it got called off because of rain, lets face it a dog having a piddle on the Baseball ground pitch would have got a game called off.
I went on the train and changed at Crewe, think it was Arsenal fans shouting over to us from a train to us on the platform that our match was called off, we all shouted back your taking the , found out when we got there they were right😱
We all went straight to the nearest pub from the station 🙂but not for long, 🙁as the police came in and moved us on back to station and made sure we got on the next train back to Crewe.
Went to the rearrange game, never forget how small the pitch length was, looked like you could score from a goal kick 🤣
I think it was the only game I have ever left early to miss the traffic and missed the winning goal!
Yes I was at the old Baseball ground with my brother. It was devastating.
I was there too, squeezed into the Derby home end and struggled to stay quiet when PNE scored -- Alex Bruce twice, remember Gordon Coleman cut back to set up the second? Derby's first home loss of the season and Roy McFarland's last game before retirement?
Trevor Brooking apparently "scored" from 30 yards against Cardiff and it was disallowed -- no one knew why it was disallowed according to press reports the next day.
Trevor Brooking apparently "scored" from 30 yards against Cardiff and it was disallowed -- no one knew why it was disallowed according to press reports the next day.
I was in one of the vans.
I have a recollection that Bill Shankly was at the Cardiff West Ham game as an official observer for the league. I recall that he also commented on the fact that the game was several minutes too short, these days there would be all sorts of bother about that game along with calls for replays etc but no great fuss was made at the time.
The decision to sack Nobby after that was possibly the most shameful of a whole string of poor decisions by the club. However, thinking again, the decision to appoint Docherty and give him much of the proceeds from the sale of Mick Baxter to buy the likes of Barry Dunn must rank alongside that.