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Can anyone remember a match. It was either late 60s or early 70s.
I think PNE won 3-2 the referee was carried off and the game was held up because of a monsoon like rainstorm. I also remember John Ritchie scoreing with a absolute thunderbolt.
 
survey said:
Can anyone remember a match. It was either late 60s or early 70s.
I think PNE won 3-2 the referee was carried off and the game was held up because of a monsoon like rainstorm. I also remember John Ritchie scoreing with a absolute thunderbolt.
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Is this the game where one of the crowd came on as a linesman ?
 
survey said:
Can anyone remember a match. It was either late 60s or early 70s.
I think PNE won 3-2 the referee was carried off and the game was held up because of a monsoon like rainstorm. I also remember John Ritchie scoreing with a absolute thunderbolt.
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I remember Willie Irvine's debut game in the late 60s - a 2-1 win over Aston Villa in which John Ritchie nearly burst the Kop End net from 30 yards to score our equaliser before Irvine himself made it 2-1 but I have no recollection of the other details you mention.
 
John Ritchie had one hell of a shot on him. I remember seeing him play a Central League game prior to making his first team debut. I think it was against Port Vale. He scored from just inside the opposition half with a thunderbolt that almost took the keeper into the back of the net with it.
 
llanroc said:
He scored from just inside the opposition half with a thunderbolt that almost took the keeper into the back of the net with it.
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Are you remembering a PNE game lanroc, or an edition of Roy of the rovers you once read? 🙂
 
llanroc said:
John Ritchie had one hell of a shot on him. I remember seeing him play a Central League game prior to making his first team debut. I think it was against Port Vale. He scored from just inside the opposition half with a thunderbolt that almost took the keeper into the back of the net with it.
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Something I recall is that when we got a freekick about 30 yards from goal and the opposition formed a wall with Ritchie shaping up to take the kick a sort of nervous laughter would goround the ground - part a sort of glee, part genuine sympathy for the players who might have to let a Ritchie thunderbolt impact them. Oddly apart from the goal I mentioned above I can only remember Ritchie scoring one other time - from the penalty spot in a 5-3 home defeat to a team whose home ground is by the River Darwen. Great characterful player though - difficult to believe he has passed from this life at no great age.
 
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pnematic said:
Is this the game where one of the crowd came on as a linesman ?
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Yes that was the game they had a announcement asking for a volunteer. I'm now not sure about all of the rest maybe mixing up games. I know we went back to school next day after holidays.
 
Aye ! I was on that match. What about the match when Alan Kelly played outfield with his arm in a sling?


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It was a match in our promotion season from division 3 when Alan ball was manager. I made a scrap book . The evening post headline was ' the night the rains came down and the ref went out and pne won 3 2' I don't remember John richie playing that season though.


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Beersoulman said:
It was a match in our promotion season from division 3 when Alan ball was manager. I made a scrap book . The evening post headline was ' the night the rains came down and the ref went out and pne won 3 2' I don't remember John richie playing that season though.


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It was against Wrexham I think .


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Beersoulman said:
It was a match in our promotion season from division 3 when Alan ball was manager. I made a scrap book . The evening post headline was ' the night the rains came down and the ref went out and pne won 3 2' I don't remember John richie playing that season though.

It was against Wrexham. There was torrential rain, sometime in early September I think. Ritchie didn't play at all that season, due to having a long-term injury, and not being Alan Ball's favourite full-back.
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It was against Wrexham. There was torrential rain and the ref took the players off. After the restart Alan Kelly took a goal kick which he hammered up the middle. The ref turned his head to look back at the kick when it hit him on the jaw and knocked him out cold. I was on the Kop
 
bordass said:
Deffo Wrexham . Strange evening Won 3-2:
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I reckon the game the referee took the players off for a torrential downpour was V Swansea on a Monday evening and ended 1-1 Oct 19th 1971
It wasn't a deayed game ,he actually stopped mid-match and took the players off .Does anyone remember this.
100 % V Swansea 1-1 Gerry Ingram goal
 
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bordass said:
Deffo Wrexham . Strange evening Won 3-2:
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I distinctly remember this game as me and my dad only got onto the ground at halftime. I remember my old fella asking someone how we were doing and suspect we were trailing at halftime, or at least playing poorly? In my mind I thought we won by a higher margin and were trailing at one stage of the game. Would be great if one of the stattos out there could give us more details.
 
survey said:
Can anyone remember a match. It was either late 60s or early 70s.
I think PNE won 3-2 the referee was carried off and the game was held up because of a monsoon like rainstorm. I also remember John Ritchie scoreing with a absolute thunderbolt.
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I think the game was v Wrexham (31 August 1970). As you mention it was delayed by heavy rain and the referee was injured and replaced by a linesman. A spectator who was also a Football League linesman took his place. John Ritchie didn't score but Alex Spark scored from a free kick so that might be what you're thinking of. The match is described in the "Season To Savour" book abut the 1970-1971 campaign.
 
Brian Gloomy said:
I think the game was v Wrexham (31 August 1970). As you mention it was delayed by heavy rain and the referee was injured and replaced by a linesman. A spectator who was also a Football League linesman took his place. John Ritchie didn't score but Alex Spark scored from a free kick so that might be what you're thinking of. The match is described in the "Season To Savour" book abut the 1970-1971 campaign.
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Thanks for that obviously mixing up games. I knew i was back at school next day.
 
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