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Post by Amber Aleman on Sept 22, 2010 9:13:47 GMT
This was mentioned in one of Andy K's recent posts, but I think is worth a thread of its own.
On Saturday 22 September 1990, Sutton United won 9-0 at Gateshead. The result set a record for a winning away margin in the Conference.
Gateshead didn't help themselves by having two players sent off (sound familiar?), but we were already 2-0 up when the first red card was shown and 4-0 when the second was brandished.
Robin Seagroatt scored a hat-trick, Stuart Massey and sub Zak Newman got two each, and the other goals came from Paul McKinnon and Martyn Gill.
I recall that Carey Anderson had a great chance to make it ten, but headed over from about six yards out.
I've still got a cutting from the Tyneside evening paper The Pink bearing the headline 'Gateshead hit by record score'.
Before this game Sutton hadn't been having a particularly good season, winning two but losing four of their first six matches. Even more bizarrely, we got relegated the following spring while Gateshead stayed up! (The return match at GGL finished 3-3.)
My enduring memories of that day? An unseasonably chilly wind blowing in off the North Sea. The calm and seclusion of the Crown Posada pub in Newcastle where I went for one of my pre-match pints. And the scattered little pockets of spectators in the all-seater athletics stadium where Gateshead play.
Anyone else got memories to share?
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DaveF
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Post by DaveF on Sept 22, 2010 9:46:29 GMT
I missed the game On the way home the night before I skidded on a patch of wet oil on the Blackwell Tunnel approach and totalled the car. Fortunately no injuries to speak of but in no state to travel to a football game. Scoop kept calling me at home with score updates (I thought he was making it all up) and I (repeatedly) updated Clubcall. I also missed our 9-0 win over Bromley in the 1968/69 Amateur Cup run, Dad thought I was too young to go to games on my own and he was working that day. I'm not sure I forgave him until the night we put eleven past the Tanners.
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taz
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Post by taz on Sept 22, 2010 10:14:54 GMT
We were 3-0 up at HT in the return at GGL as well as I recall. Then fecked it up.
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Post by Del on Sept 22, 2010 13:22:26 GMT
Well we had a pratt of a manager then!
Barry Williams wanted a little extra cash to get into the football league and was turned down.Hence he walked!
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Post by filbert on Sept 22, 2010 15:16:56 GMT
We were 3-0 up at HT in the return at GGL as well as I recall. Then fecked it up. Very true Taz. If I remember rightly they had a guy with a big nose who scored a couple in the 2nd half. I missed the 9-0 as I was playing cricket.
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Post by presssec on Sept 22, 2010 16:17:50 GMT
Much as I would like to take the credit for keeping Cosec updated, I am equally loathed to deflect it from our esteemed current chairman, who was the one melting the phone in the Gateshead secretary's office. I was on holiday in Cornwall that weekend, dialling up Clubcall every so often and assuming Dave was doing the reports from the ground, little knowing the truth.
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Post by frakey on Sept 22, 2010 18:15:27 GMT
If you think that delboy, then perhaps the prat is closer to home. BW our most successful manager of all time. And a top bloke. Nothing wrong in having ambition. And he had actually left by the time we won 9-0. Keith Blunt was the manager.
I also missed the 9-0 having refused to go back to Gateshead after experiencing a 1-1 draw up there in front of 300 od souls. What a mistake to make.
The 3-3 draw, in which we chucked a 3 goal lead away saw the debut of Peter Evans. Wearing te no 9 shirt, he scored twice as U's raced into that 3-0 lead and threatened to repeat the dose. Sadly, I was there and we chucked it away. U's got relegated and Gateshead stayed up!
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DaveF
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Post by DaveF on Sept 22, 2010 18:29:41 GMT
As ever Pressec, your memory is better than mine.
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Post by Andy K on Sept 22, 2010 18:31:20 GMT
Frakey, I think Delboy is referring to Blunt when talking about 'that prat' - and delboys opinions on him have been well voiced already on here!
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Post by frakey on Sept 22, 2010 19:10:37 GMT
If that's the case, it wasn't so clear & I apologise to Delboy. Although I'm not sure to call Keith Blunt a prat is accurate either, it was he who brought Barrie to the club in the first place!!
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Post by Del on Sept 22, 2010 21:02:11 GMT
Of course i meant Blunt.A very good friend of my mine played for the club at that time under both managers and told me what went on. Blunt treated the players like schoolchildren and they just didn't want to play for him even if it meant getting relegated!
It was quite obvious from about November that season that we were going down and the shout all the way round the ground was Blunt out.Out of misplaced loyalty the board kept him and we got relegated and lost many fans in the process. It might be 20 years ago but its had a knock on effect for such a long time now.
It might only be now that we are starting rebuild our fan base.
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