How's your footy team doing?

Congrats to Barrow. Funny how things eventually come around. Voted out of the league 47 years ago, might be a year missing there, and voted back in all those years later.

My goodness you've a good  memory, it was in fact 48 yrs ago, in 1972, and it's taken them 2075 matches in the non-league pyramid to finally get there. They will be playing against one of your local teams, Tranmere Rovers once again.

It was a travesty when they were voted out, by the "old boys" network when they were not even bottom of the division. However this time they had a clear lead at the top of the National League, so deserved their promotion anyway.

In those days it was almost impossible to be voted out. I remember Rochdale were forever finishing bottom but never got kicked out. It was a travesty for the top team in the Non League.

Memory is only good for trivial things.

Too true WN,  Crewe were regularly in the bottom bunch but, sad to say, they used the { Very } old boys network to great advantage and, despite the great changes over the last 50 / 60 years , they still do !

If my memory serves didn't the bottom team have to apply for re-election or some such wording. I wonder how much had to be put into brown envelopes 🤓

I could / would / should never say such things, Roger !!! I think a good deal of back-scratching went on over many seasons not just at the fag end of one.  Many young players were 'fostered' at Crewe before the modern system of  'On loan' was even thought of !  The same applied to certain managers like Harry Catterick, Tony Waddington, Harry Gregg too.

Have any CT footy fans been watching the games on TV?

I really can’t get into it at all, seems really strange, empty grounds, fake crowd noise etc....

Not much choice at the moment, though, so will have to persevere. Just watching Bournemouth v Palace at the moment, time for a beer I think!

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Watched the same game, Pliers  and defo not impressed !!

Spitting and nostril clearing still occurring, holding and shirt pulling too but commentators undersnapper cannot see anything wrong.

Perhaps they could have used the last few weeks to educate them in the laws of football and also common decency.

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  Mines a coffee white with a sweetener 

We could very well be playing the Alex next season after that shambles yesterday. I managed to watch the second half on the Telly, the SIL came over and connected his phone to the smart tv, technologically beyond me.

I wished I hadn't watched now the manager said after the game "we played poorly" a wag on the forum said no we weren't that good!

UTT Rog