Have had a trawl back through the club records to find that Saturday's win at Basingstoke not only equalled the Blue Square Bet South record of consecutive League wins but also surpassed our own previous best of nine on the spin.
That record was set across two seasons as we won our last eight games in Sunday League football in 1970-71 and then our first in Saturday football on the opening day of 1971-72, beating Faversham Town Reserves 1-0 in our first Metropolitan London League (a very generous 'London' catchment area).
The run was ended with a 1-1 draw at Muirhead Sports.
The Southern League winning side of 1985-86 won twelve of their last thirteen games, but the wins were split in a sequeance of seven and five. Ironically the game we failed to win was a 3-3 draw at Crawley Town which was the day we were confirmed as Champions.
Please feel free to ask questions, comment or ignore!
Have had a trawl back through the club records to find that Saturday's win at Basingstoke not only equalled the Blue Square Bet South record of consecutive League wins but also surpassed our own previous best of nine on the spin.
That record was set across two seasons as we won our last eight games in Sunday League football in 1970-71 and then our first in Saturday football on the opening day of 1971-72, beating Faversham Town Reserves 1-0 in our first Metropolitan London League (a very generous 'London' catchment area).
The run was ended with a 1-1 draw at Muirhead Sports.
The Southern League winning side of 1985-86 won twelve of their last thirteen games, but the wins were split in a sequeance of seven and five. Ironically the game we failed to win was a 3-3 draw at Crawley Town which was the day we were confirmed as Champions.
Please feel free to ask questions, comment or ignore!
Paul,
How close is our existing run to being a record when all three Blue Square Conference divisions are considered? (i.e. including the Prem and North as well) please?
Have had a trawl back through the club records to find that Saturday's win at Basingstoke not only equalled the Blue Square Bet South record of consecutive League wins but also surpassed our own previous best of nine on the spin.
That record was set across two seasons as we won our last eight games in Sunday League football in 1970-71 and then our first in Saturday football on the opening day of 1971-72, beating Faversham Town Reserves 1-0 in our first Metropolitan London League (a very generous 'London' catchment area).
The run was ended with a 1-1 draw at Muirhead Sports.
The Southern League winning side of 1985-86 won twelve of their last thirteen games, but the wins were split in a sequeance of seven and five. Ironically the game we failed to win was a 3-3 draw at Crawley Town which was the day we were confirmed as Champions.
Please feel free to ask questions, comment or ignore!
Interested to know where you found these early records, is this info available online? Used to play in the Metropolitan league in the late sixties early seventies and would like to reminisce.
Good grief...was it all brylcream and heavy balls then
I'm not sure many of us want to know about 'Sexy Sladie's' heavy balls! We had enough of that on the coach from Hornchurch!
Remember one really cold and frosty Sunday morning playing for Lewisham fc at Foxes playing fields Mottingham, trying to control a ball waist height and going like a rocket, the ball was a Mitre Multiplex pumped up good and hard like a cannon ball.
Caught it high on the inside of my thigh squeezing my todger like a dog roll,I was floored, a big red patch with a nob on it appeared. Didn't use brylcreem on me Rod Stewart hair cut but used to splash it all over with Brut. Golden days.
Ps that was a good day out to Hornchurch, I enjoyed myself.
If its neat, can scan it in to a pc as images and use OCR software optical character recognition.. to grab the data and put into database form from there you can manipulate it how you like and even have it on a history of welling united website. Would certainly save time and mean you wouldnt have to type it all out to get it on a pc.
Any plans to go from 1987 - to date Paul?
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