Stockport Memories [Archive]

James

03-01-2000, 01:12 AM

I remember in the early 1970s we seemed to draw Stockport County every year in the FA Cup (and we kept losing to them). We were in the old First Division and Stockport were in the old Division Four.

I was an Undergraduate at Imperial College at the time, and I had a flat-mate who supported County, and he was a right pain in the neck.

I don't remember much else, and quite honestly, I'm grateful for all that.

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ajp

03-01-2000, 05:42 AM

I just remember last seasons game at Edgley Park, we took the club coach up there. Anyway I remember there are some excellant pubs near the ground, we were drinking with all the County fans who were friendly and it was great, you wouldn't think man utd was just 20 miles up the road.

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[This message has been edited by ajp (edited 03 January 2000).]

arussell

03-01-2000, 05:59 AM

I'd like tomorrow's where we win 2-1 'cos Carlo has the flu :-)

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hong_kong_hg

03-01-2000, 09:54 AM

I seem to remember as a kid watching a game, must have been league cup in I think 1980, first year after promotion, 6-0 or 7-0, something like that...was that Stockport?

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Gavin Axten

03-01-2000, 12:03 PM

The score was 7-0 and I think you are right, it was our first season after promotion.

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"You'll never know just how much I love you until you've taken my Palace away"

interested in sydney.

03-01-2000, 12:29 PM

Yes it was 7 - 0 Gerry Francis was playing and scored a rare header. Their goalie tore a thigh muscle but played on and made some good saves (I think his name was Lawson ex Everton)other wise it could have been double figures.

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Chobham Eagle

29-12-2004, 10:56 PM

Originally posted by Dave
Anyone got any good ones they would like to share?

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Dave BBS Administrator | dave@cpfc.org

Wasn't there a game up there a few years back when Dougie Freedman scored a late goal? ;)

Mong!

29-12-2004, 10:59 PM

dunno, remind me again?

forsells no1 fan

29-12-2004, 11:17 PM

Originally posted by Chobham Eagle
Wasn't there a game up there a few years back when Dougie Freedman scored a late goal? ;)

I think i remember. Was a meaningless last game of the season though wasent it?

Mong!

29-12-2004, 11:22 PM

who's dougie freedman? ;)

ROCK'N'ROLL

29-12-2004, 11:25 PM

I remember having to stop off at a Kwik-Fit there once.

lauren_of_hove

29-12-2004, 11:31 PM

I had tears of joy streaming down my face. :)

KevTheOptimist

29-12-2004, 11:37 PM

I was watching at home, couldn't sit down the whole way through and said to myself if I got a beer they would score. Got a beer, dougie scored, beer all over front room, happy days

EL JIMBO

29-12-2004, 11:40 PM

watching pointless last game of season, mulling it over in the bar while watching a 1st class bitch fight.

DrRock

30-12-2004, 02:14 PM

Funny story about the 7-0 league cup tie. I'd got to the ground ridiculously early as I sometimes did in those days. Sitting on the Holmesdale terrace idly reading my prog when I noticed that the DJ, John Henty, had put on the Ian Dury album, 'New Boots & Panties'. This was unusual because although a nice bloke, his musical taste rarely stretched beyond the confines of Radio 2.
He must have gone for a fag, I thought, as the album played on, and I bet he's never played it before! By this time the ground was beginning to fill up with earlycomers, families etc.
Sure enough at volume loud enough to be heard down South Norwood High Street, the opening lines of 'Plaistow Patricia' blared out to the astonishment and bemusement of all our respectable fans and the old bill. For those who don't know the track, the opening line is a string of expletives which would not get past the BBS mods. Vince Hilairious.
Only time I ever went to Edgeley Park was for THE game, though I'd been past it on the train countless times. I was far too tense to enjoy the game, but terriific finale obviously. Some good pubs too there, with top-notch Robinson's beer.
:p

Brixton Exile 2

30-12-2004, 02:49 PM

Originally posted by Dave
Anyone got any good ones they would like to share?

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Dave BBS Administrator | dave@cpfc.org
Come on Dave dont let us down im sure youve got a few.

Dorking .Eagle

30-12-2004, 03:21 PM

Never forget running onto the pitch at the final whistle and generally clowning around for about a minute with my big Palace flag. Then as we get herded off the pitch, someone tells me that Huddersfield's game hasn't finished and that they are still playing!
Cue a nervous couple of minutes before the crazy celebrations restart!

grubbie

19-01-2005, 08:34 AM

I remember being astounded when I looked at the clock after Dougie had scored THAT goal, and realising how close we had come to relegation. I thought at the time that we were only about ten minutes into the second half. Just goes to show how time flies when you're enjoying yourself, I don't think!!

st albans

19-01-2005, 08:38 AM

in a bar in Madrid. drunk and ended up smoking the biggest cigar in history

100% Palace

19-01-2005, 08:43 AM

Not being able to get anywhere near the bar in the pub - so going to somerfield, getting a crate of stella and drinking that in the pub car park.

The huge flag being paraded past the pub, down the road to the ground.

THAT goal.

Trying to get on the pitch after the goal - and tripping over the wall!

Finally getting on the pitch at the final whistle.

The tension waiting for the brum result to come through - ended by the huge roar from the away terrace.

Still remember it like it was yesterday.

silver

19-01-2005, 10:10 AM

a happy day

stevey_d

19-01-2005, 11:12 AM

Jamie Smith nearly scoring an OG in the last minute. Kolinko running back to save it on the line. phew!

Son of Ron

19-01-2005, 11:20 AM

Originally posted by Dorking .Eagle
Never forget running onto the pitch at the final whistle and generally clowning around for about a minute with my big Palace flag. Then as we get herded off the pitch, someone tells me that Huddersfield's game hasn't finished and that they are still playing!
Cue a nervous couple of minutes before the crazy celebrations restart!

definitely this, but the abiding memory has to be getting so pissed, excited, euphoric etc that I proposed to my girlfriend that night in Brannigans Stockport (classy) during an S Club 7 track "Don't Stop" ?? and waking up the next morning thinking "oh my god what have I done ?!"

anyway we got married the following March and have lived happily ever after since.

AshfordianEagle

19-01-2005, 11:32 AM

ahhhhh ;)

cooper83

19-01-2005, 11:43 AM

Originally posted by stevey_d
Jamie Smith nearly scoring an OG in the last minute. Kolinko running back to save it on the line. phew!

I'm fairly convinced that my heart did actually stop beating when that happened. Remember watching it on sky and, after the final whistle, they said 'and there's been action at the McAlpine!' - cue footage of a huddersfield attack and my heart totally sinking, only for the brum keeper to pull off a blinding point blank range save. Happy days indeed!

Pistike

19-01-2005, 12:13 PM

my stockport memories (http://forums.cpfc.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5126&highlight=becketts)

GeeTee

19-01-2005, 12:34 PM

I remember everyone being so quiet when we got back to the coach. Must have been nervous exhaustion. A couple of hours into our journey home the coach stopped off at a pub. I have no idea where it was but we all perked up for a sing song after that.

David of Kent

19-01-2005, 12:39 PM

Reading the above brings back fantastic memories of the kind that somebody who supports a Man Utd, Arsenal etc could never understand :)

c_block_lad

19-01-2005, 12:41 PM

Just the weird feeling of relief bascially lifting off from my shoulders when we scored.

LeeH

19-01-2005, 12:43 PM

The pub just on some moody estate before the ground, Palace spilled out onto the street and into the car park
THE goal that ensured Dougie will always be a Palace legend.
The car drive home, totally buzzing and catching Dave Pearce live on Radio1 as we reached the M25.

Joeymaz

19-01-2005, 12:50 PM

I was on football tour in Lisbon and me, the old man and a couple of others were running round lisbon trying to find a tv with it on.
The Irish bar we had frequented happened to be just opening and we managed to find the right channel with it on.
Bit surreal in an empty bar in Lisbon apart from 4 people and a barmaid, stools were still on the tables from the previous night.
Don't know what the barmaid was thinking when Palace scored and 3 blokes ( Other one a WHam fan) started running round the pub screaming!!

Mojo Jojo

21-01-2005, 06:35 PM

It was my first game standing on a terrace :eek:

I cried throughout the whole second half. After the final whistle I justremember little huddles of people ebnt down with mobiles and radios glued to their ears for the other result...and then the elation, my sister screaming down the phone WE'VE DONE IT WE'VE DONE IT WE'VE DONE IT

matt@teamturtle

21-01-2005, 07:08 PM

My stockport memory starts on the Sunday morning. Me and a friend busy welding the exhaust on the car so i could drive up. Parking up behind the main high street near the ground with the nose of the car against the wall so the police didn't spot the lack of tax (car failed MOT on the exhaust on the Friday, couldn't get retest until Tuesday, damned 3 year old Rovers). Nervous throughout the game. Ecstatic at the end. Aki trying to pull Mikael Forssell's shorts down. Stockport fans almost as happy for us as we were. Then some Stoke 'fans' turned up with a police escort looking for trouble. We vacated to Stafford where, believe it or not, Wolves fans were congratulating us. Then a quiet drive back to Brum.

Fairly uneventful Sunday if you ask me!!

Chocky

29-01-2005, 08:22 AM

Originally posted by cooper83
I'm fairly convinced that my heart did actually stop beating when that happened. Remember watching it on sky and, after the final whistle, they said 'and there's been action at the McAlpine!' - cue footage of a huddersfield attack and my heart totally sinking, only for the brum keeper to pull off a blinding point blank range save. Happy days indeed!

Spot on!!!! After those final few minutes I needed a skip to unload what I had done in my pants.

(No doubt some northern German Stockport Malaga fan will come on here and bleat about how the goal shouldn't have stood because we handballed it seconds before down their end and they couldn't get on the pitch after for their end of season celebrations blah blah blah you SHAAAADAAAAAAAAP!)

Duffle Coat

29-01-2005, 09:00 AM

Originally posted by cooper83
I'm fairly convinced that my heart did actually stop beating when that happened. Remember watching it on sky and, after the final whistle, they said 'and there's been action at the McAlpine!' - cue footage of a huddersfield attack and my heart totally sinking, only for the brum keeper to pull off a blinding point blank range save. Happy days indeed!

Am I right in thinking that the Birmingham keeper was none other than Nico Vassen ? And if this is true, don't we owe Nico a statue or something. I mean. Has anyone done so much for one team. ?Stopped them getting relegated to oblivion and then helping to put them in Premiership orbit ? And for his trouble, where is he now ? Probably in the Birmingham 3rd team. I, for one, will never be able to thank Nico enough.

drizzt

29-01-2005, 09:23 AM

The keeper was Ian Bennett.

I remember the 4 hour drive up, and arriving very early, waiting for the pub to open, although i was driving!

With 5 minutes to go, i had resigned myself to Palace going down! Then suddenly up pops dougie.....The final whistle goes and hundreds of Palace fans swamp the pitch thinking we've stayed up....oh god huddersfield are still playing.....please god no....and suddenly its all over.....dont really remember leaving the ground after that.

Next stop service station, a birmingham fan walks in, an estatic palace fan runs at the birmingham fan and embraced him!!

100% Palace

29-01-2005, 09:38 AM

Originally posted by Duffle Coat
Am I right in thinking that the Birmingham keeper was none other than Nico Vassen ?

He was the Huddersfield keeper at the time i think. Went to Brum as a result of the relegation.

cranesparkeagle

29-01-2005, 08:36 PM

I have real bittersweet memories of the day and the time. watched it in the clifton and suffered with the rest. But all was in perspective as my Father died of cancer the following week. I remember wondering during that period how it was I could get worked up about a game of football while that was happening. It was a very strange time.

Mat ov CPFC

29-01-2005, 10:13 PM

My only memory of the game is of feeling very ill. After we scored I just stared at the terrace floor and muttered to myself about how things should never have got to this stage.

On the drive home Tak and Peter H both fell asleep so had peace and quiet and an eerily empty M40.

Finished off the evening drinking some foul Hungarian booze and weeing up James Varcoes Pear tree.

Odd day.

northwest eagle

29-01-2005, 10:19 PM

I remember getting on the pitch around three times and helping to hold one of the players up on a mans shoulders. What a game had tears in my eyes.

Niceaction

29-01-2005, 10:40 PM

Originally posted by lauren_of_hove
I had tears of joy streaming down my face. :)

I took my girlfriend to see her first Palace match at the Stockport game. At the time I was living in Brighton and she was in Birmingham, and it was a weekend I was due to go up and see her, so I said i'll take her. She hates football, but likes a day out so she agreed.

SHe hadn't really been cheering or getting enthusiastic all game, bu after Dougie scored I went ballistic for about 3 minutes. Then I turned around and noticed Emma with tears streaming down her face! At that moment, I knew I was in :love: :cool: :D :o

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:44 PM

Okay, here goes...

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:45 PM

http://gallery.cpfc.org/albums/paul_wrights_photos/264_G.sized.jpg

Back Row Boys at Stockport, 06 May 2001

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:46 PM

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Palace Babes at Stockport, 06 May 2001

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:47 PM

http://gallery.cpfc.org/albums/paul_wrights_photos/267_G.sized.jpg

Mark Holmes and friends at Stockport, 06 May 2001

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:50 PM

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Ian, Tim and Chris at Stockport.

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:51 PM

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The tension shows at Edgeley Park, Stockport v Palace, 06 May 2001

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:52 PM

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GOAL! Dougie Freedman scores - Stockport v Palace

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:52 PM

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Stewards clear the pitch after Freedman had scored, Stockport v Palace.

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:53 PM

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Stewards clear the pitch after Freedman had scored, Stockport v Palace.

selhurst

29-01-2005, 10:54 PM

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The stewards move in at Edgeley Park, Stockport v Palace.

A Wooden Fish On Wheels

29-01-2005, 11:22 PM

We got down The Spread Eagle in Croydon early enough to get seats right in front of the TV. I was so nervous that I started straight on the large JD&C's. We were looking at each other and saying 'this is it... we're f**cked...' when Dougie did the business. People, chairs and drinks went flying everywhere - I remember seeing Popup Steve flying up and down in amongst it all.

Thank Doug for that.

Jim Cannon

29-01-2005, 11:59 PM

Originally posted by A Wooden Fish On Wheels
We got down The Spread Eagle in Croydon early enough to get seats right in front of the TV. I was so nervous that I started straight on the large JD&C's. We were looking at each other and saying 'this is it... we're f**cked...' when Dougie did the business. People, chairs and drinks went flying everywhere - I remember seeing Popup Steve flying up and down in amongst it all.

Thank Doug for that.

I didn't know you were in there that day, I must have been sitting near you because I remember the pandemonium when we scored. I looked outside into Kathryn Street in the chaos and there were passers-by who were enjoying a quiet Sunday afternoon stroll who couldn't understand what was going on. Hiliarious. We promptly ordered a botle of Moet to celebrate. Happy Days.:p

A Wooden Fish On Wheels

30-01-2005, 12:24 AM

Yeah Deano ordered the fizz didn't he? I was sat next to Callum at the table down the front :D

Jim Cannon

30-01-2005, 12:27 AM

Originally posted by A Wooden Fish On Wheels
Yeah Deano ordered the fizz didn't he? I was sat next to Callum at the table down the front :D

It was Paul Findlay. But I think Dino got one as well. Can't believe I don't remember you being there, but then again, it was a big session......

A Wooden Fish On Wheels

30-01-2005, 12:40 AM

Yeah it all got a bit messy quite early.

Jim Cannon

30-01-2005, 12:43 AM

I think the words "wasted early doors" spring to mind, wasn't the game all over before 3.30pm?

Newozeagle

30-01-2005, 01:41 AM

T'was an Unreal day.

Was playing cricket that day for the Railway Telegraph pub (Thornton Heath) - with three other season ticket holders who could not drop out of the game. I remember batting at the time the goal went in and heard the scream from one of the palace fans doing the scoring with a radio glued to his ear. The best part of it was that one of the team members supported Huddersfield and was umpiring at the time. He'd given us stick for weeks prior...

Kember should be knighted!!

:lux:

Matt_Hep

07-02-2005, 09:20 PM

What an amazing day, strangely enough will go down as one of my top 5 Palace moments. Freedman has been my favourite Palace player since he signed and to see him doing the business for Kember too was just exceptional.

Days like that you realise we have exceptional support when it counts. As we arrive in Stockport Palace were everywhere, a huge flag was draped over a pub and it really looked like we'd taken the town over.

Check the link to see the photos I took of the day, amongst the madness I managed to capture the pitch invasion and the aftermath.

http://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=210&gallery=98
http://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=210&gallery=98

ONE DOUGIE FREEDMAN!!!!!:lux: :lux: :lux:

sheriff

10-02-2005, 11:09 PM

After going to the Pompey match and seeing us destroy them with Rubins Jolly Hoppy and a few others standing directly behind me I feared that that was the high point and my levels of excitement would never reach that sort of high again!!!

So we got to Stockport me and my mate who was a palace fanISH. But he sorted free accomodation and travel so all good! Were walking around stockport in awe of the amount of red n blue in stockport town centre. found a nice boozer full of palace and necked a few jars!
Off to the game and it was the most nervous affair in my life and believe me there have been a few!
The whole game even the last few minutes and i swear i am being honest I KNEW we would score. others around me were giving up but i was so sure that we would score! Any way when Dougie did that er....thing! I have never felt the way I did at that point in my life I was so proud to be red n blue seeing palace fans hanging from the walls everyone singing to the same tune. OH GOD the memories! So anyway whistle went and I did something that i have never don previously and probably never will I ran onto the field of play. I think i made it to the halfway line in 3.87 seconds! I was running and running and running and then BANG! I had run into a stockport centre back and he fell to the floor I looked at him for a second then realised what i had done then jus ran back to my place in the stand only to be put thru seconds of nervousness after being told its not over. When it was. We all went back to a crazy celebration.

What a day! Doug I love you

Richard

11-03-2005, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by selhurst
http://gallery.cpfc.org/albums/paul_wrights_photos/267_G.sized.jpg

Mark Holmes and friends at Stockport, 06 May 2001

And Richard, Mrs Richard (then just Richard's girlfriend, if I've got my dates right) and Bungalow standing the other side of the hedge ...

Sir.S.C Remembered

11-03-2005, 07:14 PM

I stewarded a supporters coach that day and cannot remember the 2-3 minutes after we scored but know I ended up at the different end of the terrace when I next remember.

I also bought a crate of larger, decent manufacturer from a cheap supermarket after the game which worked out about 50p a bottle and sold them for £1 a bottle on the coach to a few regulars but was not allowed to run a coach after that. They have a strict rule against it and I was 15 but then again it was a special occasion. We have come along way since then. Loved that season and went to over 50 games including cup and friendlies and only missed B'ham & H'field away.

Sir.S.C Remembered

11-03-2005, 07:15 PM

17c4

Mickey aka "O right yer" is in that picture with Mark (who I used to occasionally talk to at away games and is a top but drunken bloke)

mouseboy

11-03-2005, 07:28 PM

i was there, in the middle of the Stockport end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WorthingEagle

31-03-2005, 12:23 PM

Has anyone got an mpeg of the goal, including the celebrations? I used to have a clip that ran from Hopkin's handball onwards, and also a clip of the dressing room celebrations, but I've lost them :(

31-03-2005, 01:10 PM

Oh that's me in the photo, looking younger and leaner, and drunker than I am right now!

stupalace

15-08-2005, 11:52 AM

I have found my video copy of the game , free to anyone who wants it

strawberry mivi

15-08-2005, 04:01 PM

Living only 30 miles away turned up,
spent 20 mins parking the car,
turned up to an empty ticket office to be told - SOLD OUT!
whilst walking away, thinking ,MUST FIND A PUB,
a steward walks over, asks if i'm on my own
and slips me a ticket,
offered him money but he wasn't bothered,
slipped into the "away stand", right at the back, closest to the away end
and the rest is history

had a radio and knew huddersfield hadn't ended
tried to keep a running commentary going.

stupalace

19-08-2005, 08:00 AM

after watching the goal for probably the one thousand time , it strikes me ( ouch ) that hopkin's clearance , was a clearance as if he was expecting a foul to be given against him .

knowlesyUCLA

16-02-2011, 04:15 PM

Bump.

At the end of a mundane day, nothing is better than reading this.

WorthingEagle

19-04-2013, 09:22 AM

Palace might be bang out of form but things could be worse - Stockport are odds-on to be relegated to Conference North tomorrow...

Big-Griff

19-04-2013, 11:03 AM

I was in the welcome inn on parchmore rd..........smashed out of my head when Hopo sent it up the park and Douggie dun the rest what a hang over that day gave birth to!

917L

19-04-2013, 06:25 PM

PalaceBhoy

19-04-2013, 06:34 PM

Only just seen them

I managed to make 2 of the photos, my son is in one and g23 is in another talking to me :)

A great day (well 87 minutes of torture)

Can't believe that this is almost twelve years ago. Fu*k sake.

BlazeRIP

19-04-2013, 07:19 PM

Palace might be bang out of form but things could be worse - Stockport are odds-on to be relegated to Conference North tomorrow...

Ho ho ho and to think they were winding us up with chants of pompey being 2-0 up on that crazy day.:hi:

Latvian Eagle

20-04-2013, 06:57 PM

My main memories were...

1. The game felt like it went on for an eternity.

2. Standing there thinking we weren't going to score in a million years.

3. Thinking pleeeeeeeeeeease don't go in, literally a minute after we scored when Kolinko charged out of his goal and Jamie Smith looped a backwards header over him. :eek: