fatgrandad
Coach⭐⭐
It is hard to look beyond Wycombe and Wembley for those few seconds which make everything else that an SUFC supporter has to put up with worthwhile. I still play the "last minute, last minute" youtube video, and the one from the Blues end, every now and again when I need a spiritual kick up the arse.
I'd like to join Irenbird in having a special mention for the 1969 FA Cup win at Swindon as a personal milestone.
I would have been eleven at the time, my first away match I think, and I guess my father must have been enthused by the 19 goals Southend had scored in rounds 1 and 2, along with Swindon having made the League Cup final. I remember he was also utterly confident that Blues would win, even though it seemed highly unlikely to me at the time.
Must say I can't remember a huge amount about the game, beyond being in seats along the side, that Best and Hamilton scored, and that the crowd was 18,000, which has always stuck in my mind. I've found a just about legible newspaper report of the game on the Swindon site. The link below might work if I have done it properly:
- http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?Tab=NewspaperReport&MatchID=19690603
The game was also memorable for me because my father refused to stop to let me have a wee on the long, foggy drive home, despite my increasingly desperate pleas from somewhere along the North Circular Road (pre-M25 days), leaving me almost speechless with the containing effort and in severe peril at every bump in the road. As we turned into our road in Southend, he tooted the horn in victory as promised, which came mighty close to causing me a shaming incident (which would have made a better story in hindsight).
As an aside, looking at the Div 3 & 4 tables printed in the Swindon programme on the day, of the 48 teams:
I'm still trying to work out any lessons from that!
I'd like to join Irenbird in having a special mention for the 1969 FA Cup win at Swindon as a personal milestone.
I would have been eleven at the time, my first away match I think, and I guess my father must have been enthused by the 19 goals Southend had scored in rounds 1 and 2, along with Swindon having made the League Cup final. I remember he was also utterly confident that Blues would win, even though it seemed highly unlikely to me at the time.
Must say I can't remember a huge amount about the game, beyond being in seats along the side, that Best and Hamilton scored, and that the crowd was 18,000, which has always stuck in my mind. I've found a just about legible newspaper report of the game on the Swindon site. The link below might work if I have done it properly:
- http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?Tab=NewspaperReport&MatchID=19690603
The game was also memorable for me because my father refused to stop to let me have a wee on the long, foggy drive home, despite my increasingly desperate pleas from somewhere along the North Circular Road (pre-M25 days), leaving me almost speechless with the containing effort and in severe peril at every bump in the road. As we turned into our road in Southend, he tooted the horn in victory as promised, which came mighty close to causing me a shaming incident (which would have made a better story in hindsight).
As an aside, looking at the Div 3 & 4 tables printed in the Swindon programme on the day, of the 48 teams:
- 13 are currently in a higher division, incl. SUFC
- 17 are currently in the same division
- 18 are currently worse off, incl. 14 who are now out of the league or out of business
I'm still trying to work out any lessons from that!
