Csboy
Manager
With the big game tomorrow lets look back at some of our previous matches with the scum.
There has been some great gamse against them recently and also some not so good games but still my greatest memories come from the games in the 80's when we played them 2 or 3 times a season and it was pure hatred.
Even though both teams were poor through the 80's for the most part we just couldn't beat them and their small group of fans would really rub it in. I had seen 8 Southend/colu games up until our game with them in 1987 and we hadn't won any of them. It was march 1987 we were 3rd in the old 4th Division and they were 5th or 6th. The game was at Layer Road and there were 1500 Blues fans making a lot of noise. We went 1-0 down just before half-time and it looked like being the same old story.
About 15 minutes into the 2nd half Peter Johnson our left back starts a run from his own penalty area and everyone wondered where he was going as he was not known for his attacking skills. he did a 50 yard run well into their half and then unleashed a 30 yard shot that went into the top corner to send all Southend fans wild. Its still the finest goal I have ever seen from a Southend player.
The game seemed to be heading for a draw then Richard Cadette scored from just outside the area with a couple of minutes to go to give us the victory. We were travelling by train which was about a 3 mile walk, their so called boys from colu tried to put on a show but were soon chased off by the Southend mob. For that long walk back you needed to stay together or things could get unpleasant.
Another great memory was the game at layer road Easter Monday 1990 we were going up and they were as good as out of the League. We won easily 2-0 to virtually send them to the Conference and 2000 Southend fans spent the whole game singing 'colu are going out the league'.
Favourite home memory would have to be the LDV semi-final game but the Shaun Goater inspired win on Bank Holiday monday in our title winning season runs it a close 2nd.
There has been some great gamse against them recently and also some not so good games but still my greatest memories come from the games in the 80's when we played them 2 or 3 times a season and it was pure hatred.
Even though both teams were poor through the 80's for the most part we just couldn't beat them and their small group of fans would really rub it in. I had seen 8 Southend/colu games up until our game with them in 1987 and we hadn't won any of them. It was march 1987 we were 3rd in the old 4th Division and they were 5th or 6th. The game was at Layer Road and there were 1500 Blues fans making a lot of noise. We went 1-0 down just before half-time and it looked like being the same old story.
About 15 minutes into the 2nd half Peter Johnson our left back starts a run from his own penalty area and everyone wondered where he was going as he was not known for his attacking skills. he did a 50 yard run well into their half and then unleashed a 30 yard shot that went into the top corner to send all Southend fans wild. Its still the finest goal I have ever seen from a Southend player.
The game seemed to be heading for a draw then Richard Cadette scored from just outside the area with a couple of minutes to go to give us the victory. We were travelling by train which was about a 3 mile walk, their so called boys from colu tried to put on a show but were soon chased off by the Southend mob. For that long walk back you needed to stay together or things could get unpleasant.
Another great memory was the game at layer road Easter Monday 1990 we were going up and they were as good as out of the League. We won easily 2-0 to virtually send them to the Conference and 2000 Southend fans spent the whole game singing 'colu are going out the league'.
Favourite home memory would have to be the LDV semi-final game but the Shaun Goater inspired win on Bank Holiday monday in our title winning season runs it a close 2nd.
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