{"id":1318,"date":"2020-04-07T21:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:48:24","slug":"home-games-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1980s\/home-games-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME GAMES:  1981"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color\"><strong>SUMMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-stripes wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Played<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Won<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Drawn<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Lost<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Ave Att:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">20<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">14<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,506<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignwide has-background wp-block-media-text has-very-light-gray-background-color\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stockport-County-home-programme-1981-82-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1416 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stockport-County-home-programme-1981-82-1.jpg 387w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stockport-County-home-programme-1981-82-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stockport-County-home-programme-1981-82-1-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>Programme style in 1981\/82.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The front cover reflecting the &#8220;Argentina&#8221; shirt, (which of course didn&#8217;t make it until the end of the season) and features Dave Sunley in the bottom picture. This issue was for the game against Crewe on 16th October. It was a 2-0 win, (Oshor Williams and Tony Coyle on the scoresheet). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The game featured Mike Wardrobe, signed in the summer from Burnley. Purportedly a striker this was his 10th start and we hadn&#8217;t yet seen a goal from him. Neither did we for a further 15 months. In January 1983 he got a brace against Tranmere &#8211; the only goals of his County career!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"color:#ffffff\"><strong>A STRONG FINISH TO THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">1981 was a bit of a thin year for home games.  I saw all 20 of them, but the weather was such that we weren&#8217;t in action until the end of January, and after the visit of Torquay at the end of November that was it for the year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">We played one game in December, (a trip to Bootham Crescent), before a much postponed FA Cup game at Port Vale was eventually held on January 2nd 1982.  The latter game was a real debacle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">We went down, (4-1 as it turned out) and all sorts of tales about the players having had a somewhat &#8216;enthusiastic&#8217; New Year were circulating on the terraces at Vale Park that afternoon.  Once again the prospect of a 3rd round tie, albeit at Shrewsbury, had disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignwide has-background wp-block-media-text has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"145\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Team-Picture-1981-82.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1325 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Team-Picture-1981-82.jpg 225w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Team-Picture-1981-82-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>The 1981\/82 squad<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Back: Andy Thorpe; Steve Uzelac; Brian Lloyd; Andy Stafford; David Booth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Middle: John Rutter; Martin Fowler; Tommy Sword; Nigel Smith; Steve Sherlock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Front: Tony Coyle; Terry Park; Oshor Williams; Dave Sunley; Mike Wardrobe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">It was, however, a decent year at home.  There were 12 wins in the last 15 home games.  One of these was an FA Cup tie against Mossley.  I&#8217;d spent a fair bit of my non-County time up at Seel Park watching what I still regard as the best non-league team I&#8217;ve ever seen.  Led by Bob Murphy, they were a joy to watch.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">In that team was Leo Skeete, (the finest player I have ever seen in non-league), Eamonn O&#8217;Keefe, (later to play for Everton), and Davy Moore, a natural goalscorer.  But by 1981 that team had broken up and the game ended as a comfortable victory for the Hatters.  The downside was that Tommy Sword, (who had become an integral and some may say a talismanic part of the team in his two years at the Club), broke his leg.  He wasn&#8217;t to be seen again for over 12 months and it was a sore loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The highlight home game of the year was a 1-0 win against Sheffield United, courtesy of a Tommy Sword strike.  The game started with the two teams separated by a single point.  A night game under the lights drew by far the largest crowd of the year, (5.450), with a more than sizeable Blades contingent.  Victories are always good to see, but when they come against a &#8216;big&#8217; club, (and Sheffield had been in Division 1, the top Tier, only 5 years previously), it&#8217;s even better!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">It also marked the second of a seventeen game spell when Eric Webster was in charge.  Jimmy McGuigan had fallen ill, and Eric stepped up to the plate. He took over when we were 15th, and a record of 6 wins and 3 draws from the 15 League games pushed us up to 11th.  The Board must have been sufficiently impressed that after McGuigan&#8217;s brief return in January 1982, and departure in mid April, Webster was appointed to the job permanently.  I have long believed that his work in the following 3 years was absolutely crucial to the continuation of our existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-1 maxbutton maxbutton-back\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1980s\/home-games-1980\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Back to 1980<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-4 maxbutton maxbutton-forward-to\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1980s\/home-games-1982\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Forward to 1982<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-2 maxbutton maxbutton-home-games-summary\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/edgeley-park-home-from-home\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Home Games Summary Page<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-away-games\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1980s\/away-games-1981\"><span class='mb-text'>Away Games 1981<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color\"><strong>THE HOME GAMES I SAW THIS YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-stripes wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Day<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Competition<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Tier \/ Round<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Opponents<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Res<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>F<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Crowd<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><strong>Home Game<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>30\/01\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Darlington<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">L<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,911<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">110<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>13\/02\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Wimbledon<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">D<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,772<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">111<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mon<\/td><td>16\/02\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Torquay United<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,431<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">112<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>27\/02\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Scunthorpe United<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,675<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">113<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>06\/03\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Northampton Town<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">L<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,945<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">114<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>20\/03\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>York City<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,903<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">115<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>03\/04\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Southend United<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,278<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">116<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mon<\/td><td>20\/04\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Tranmere Rovers<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,311<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">117<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>01\/05\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Mansfield Town<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,236<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">118<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>04\/09\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Aldershot<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,239<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">119<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mon<\/td><td>14\/09\/81<\/td><td>Milk Cup<\/td><td>Round 1 (2nd Leg)<\/td><td>Wigan Athletic<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">L<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,913<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">120<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>18\/09\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Peterborough United<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,382<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">121<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mon<\/td><td>21\/09\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Sheffield United<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5,450<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">122<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>03\/10\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>AFC Bournemouth<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">L<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,718<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">123<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>16\/10\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Crewe Alexandra<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,669<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">124<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mon<\/td><td>19\/10\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Bradford City<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">L<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3,684<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">125<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>30\/10\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Mansfield Town<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,081<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">126<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fri<\/td><td>13\/11\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Halifax Town<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,493<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">127<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>21\/11\/81<\/td><td>FA Cup<\/td><td>Round 1<\/td><td>Mossley<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4,216<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">128<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>28\/11\/81<\/td><td>Football League Division 4<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Torquay United<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">W<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1,821<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">129<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Played Won Drawn Lost Ave Att: 20 14 1 5 2,506 Programme style in 1981\/82. The front cover reflecting the &#8220;Argentina&#8221; shirt, (which of course didn&#8217;t make it until the end of the season) and features Dave Sunley in the bottom picture. This issue was for the game against Crewe on 16th October. 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