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With the kind permission of the MODS, SUEPA is running a poll to find out what are the favourite (or most iconic) ever matches staged at Roots Hall.
The top choices will then be considered for a special series of 'Iconic Match Prints' for display within the East Stand at Roots Hall (and to be re-used when that stand is re-developed). The prints will contain a match programme, match pictures, and a brief description. They will be put together by SUEPA in conjunction with the ever-wonderful Football Stadium Photography, with the cost being met from the newly created SUEPA Fund which has as one of it’s key objectives helping to celebrate our history.
Roots Hall is 70 years old next year and over those decades, when for 33 years it was the newest league ground in the country, it has seen many fantastic Southend United matches. We’ve selected 26 of them, and in this poll are asking you to select your TEN favourite ones. We suggest you look at it from the perspective of which ones would you choose to celebrate 70 years of Roots Hall, though if you simply prefer to select which ones were your favourites (we accept not everyone will recall the first ever match back in 1955!) then that is fine too.
Yes, we might have missed out a game or two that were special for you, and if that is the case please leave a comment on this thread stating which match you think we have missed out and we will also take that in to account. But hopefully we’ve selected the main one’s for you to choose from ... and yes we know we've slightly cheated by including that Easter '73 consecutive day double-header but it did use one main match programme!
It is interesting to note perhaps how many of the matches selected are cup games, and where there is a gap of a few years before the next match in the list that to some extent might reflect a lack of cup action. A couple of the games too we've simply put in because they were key points in our history rather than maybe being great games in themselves, eg. Gillingham in 1972 (last home match in our first ever promotion season) or Rochdale in 1981 (last home match in our record-breaking first ever championship winning season when we went undefeated at home for the whole campaign).
We are unable to run a suitable poll on SUEPA social media and are grateful to Shrimperzone for helping us in this.
The prints should be available early in the New Year, but in the meantime make yourself a cuppa and mull over/select your ten favourites by no later than Friday 13 December 2024.
I will keep you informed about how it all goes.
The top choices will then be considered for a special series of 'Iconic Match Prints' for display within the East Stand at Roots Hall (and to be re-used when that stand is re-developed). The prints will contain a match programme, match pictures, and a brief description. They will be put together by SUEPA in conjunction with the ever-wonderful Football Stadium Photography, with the cost being met from the newly created SUEPA Fund which has as one of it’s key objectives helping to celebrate our history.
Roots Hall is 70 years old next year and over those decades, when for 33 years it was the newest league ground in the country, it has seen many fantastic Southend United matches. We’ve selected 26 of them, and in this poll are asking you to select your TEN favourite ones. We suggest you look at it from the perspective of which ones would you choose to celebrate 70 years of Roots Hall, though if you simply prefer to select which ones were your favourites (we accept not everyone will recall the first ever match back in 1955!) then that is fine too.
Yes, we might have missed out a game or two that were special for you, and if that is the case please leave a comment on this thread stating which match you think we have missed out and we will also take that in to account. But hopefully we’ve selected the main one’s for you to choose from ... and yes we know we've slightly cheated by including that Easter '73 consecutive day double-header but it did use one main match programme!
It is interesting to note perhaps how many of the matches selected are cup games, and where there is a gap of a few years before the next match in the list that to some extent might reflect a lack of cup action. A couple of the games too we've simply put in because they were key points in our history rather than maybe being great games in themselves, eg. Gillingham in 1972 (last home match in our first ever promotion season) or Rochdale in 1981 (last home match in our record-breaking first ever championship winning season when we went undefeated at home for the whole campaign).
We are unable to run a suitable poll on SUEPA social media and are grateful to Shrimperzone for helping us in this.
The prints should be available early in the New Year, but in the meantime make yourself a cuppa and mull over/select your ten favourites by no later than Friday 13 December 2024.
I will keep you informed about how it all goes.
