{"id":2839,"date":"2020-05-26T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:07:14","slug":"underhill-barnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1990s\/underhill-barnet\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDERHILL  &#8211;  BARNET"},"content":{"rendered":"\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>First County Visit:<\/td><td>Saturday 9th April 1994<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Competition:<\/td><td>Endsleigh League Division 2 &#8211; (Tier 3)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Result:<\/td><td>Barnet 0 &#8211; 0 Stockport County<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Attendance:<\/td><td>1,798<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Away Trip:<\/td><td>65<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Away Day:<\/td><td>278<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>County Line-up<\/td><td>1 John Keeley; 2 Sean Connelly; 3 Lee Todd; 4 David Frain; 5 Mike Flynn; 6 Dave Miller; 7 Jim Gannon; 8 Bill Williams; 9 Kevin Francis; 10 Chris Beaumont (14 Martin James); 11 Andy Preece<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Manager:<\/td><td>Danny Bergara<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>County Visits:<\/td><td>5<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-11 maxbutton maxbutton-subtitle\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><span class='mb-text'>A GROUND FOUNDED IN NON-LEAGUE AND SADLY MISSED (BY ME)<\/span><\/a>\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:17% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-716x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2840 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-1073x1536.jpg 1073w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-1431x2048.jpg 1431w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/64-Underhill-Barnet-scaled.jpg 1789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Growing up in the 1960s my staple football reading was Charles Buchan&#8217;s Football Monthly and the Football Pink each Saturday evening. And in neither of these was there any mention of Barnet. <\/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\">Looking back through the records they were way down the non-league hierarchy at the time. But all of that changed with the advent of two names that became as good as notorious in football.&nbsp; Stan Flashman was the self-styled \u2018King of the Touts\u2019. He claimed he could get a ticket for any event anywhere, and with occasionally lurid coverage in the press it\u2019s fair say that he was a somewhat iffy character. In 1985 Barnet were heading for receivership. Flashman stepped in and bought the club for what was reported as a miserly \u00a350,000. He installed another character as manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Barry Fry, another shall we say colourful individual, had previously been manager at Underhill from 1979-85, before upping sticks to move to Maidstone.&nbsp; The lure of Barnet, and more likely Flashman, drew him back to Hertfordshire eight months later.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">It was hardly a partnership made in heaven, (Flashman sacking Fry a reputed eight times in a 7-year spell), but it seemed to work on the field.&nbsp; Barnet were promoted to the League in 1991 after three times finishing second under Fry. In their second season in the FL, despite all sort of back room controversy, they were promoted to Division 2.&nbsp; But our first trip to Underhill, in April 1994, might never have taken place. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">At the end of 1992\/93 Barnet had been promoted from Division 3.&nbsp; Success on the field assuredly.&nbsp; But off it the place was a complete shambles.&nbsp; Rows about the club accounts and players wages had beset them.,&nbsp; Fry had left them a couple of months before the end of the campaign and the summer saw a resolution put to the EFL member clubs to expel them.  It went to a vote, and very surprisingly to some they marginally won the vote.&nbsp; However, a tribunal nullified the players contracts and the team which had gained promotion was broken up.&nbsp; Their survival did however mean that it would be a new place to visit, albeit towards the end of the season.&nbsp; It was to be the 66th stadium I had seen County play at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I remember that first trip was on the Fingerpost\nFlyer.&nbsp; Run in those days by Jim\nWilkinson, a former railwayman, the Flyer always set off early enough to stop\nfor refreshment at one of the Railway clubs.&nbsp;\nThis one was in Watford and a pleasant time was had before we set off to\nhead for Underhill.&nbsp; We still had lots to\nplay for, standing 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in table, 10 points behind leaders Reading,\nbut only 5 points below Plymouth with the advantage of 4 games in hand.&nbsp; After their travails the previous summer\nBarnet were booked for a swift return to Division 3, with a 5-0 pasting at Burnley\nearlier in the week having confirmed their fate.&nbsp; The omens looked good for 3 points.<\/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\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-aerial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2843 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-aerial.jpg 380w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-aerial-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-aerial-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Underhill from the air<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Hemmed in by houses on three sides, with the cricket ground at the bottom right<\/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\">With these positive thoughts we entered the ground.&nbsp; It was essentially born out of non-league,\nwhich of course it had been home to for the majority of Barnet\u2019s history, since\nopening in 1907.&nbsp; The stadium was pretty\nmuch hemmed in by housing on three sides, and a cricket ground at one end.&nbsp; (On a later visit in late spring 2006 I arrived\nearly and spent an hour watching Barnet CC in action.&nbsp; Research tells me that sadly it fell out of\nuse for the summer game for a period shortly after the football club moved to\nThe Hive).&nbsp; The sheer logistics of Underhill\nmeant that it was inevitable that at some point the club would have to move \u2013\nthere was simply no room for expansion, nor the construction of stands of any\nsize given the \u2018right to light\u2019 required for the surrounding homeowners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The Main Stand, (the only construction of any size on the\nground), straddled the half-way line, with room for only around 800.&nbsp; Interestingly the stand roof supported two of\nthe floodlight pylons.&nbsp; Underhill may\nhave fond memories for Barnet fans, but it is hardly writ large in football\nfolklore.&nbsp; It did however have the \u2018honour\u2019\nof hosting the very first floodlit match televised live. The BBC showed the\ngame against Wealdstone in October 1946.&nbsp;\nSadly the lights at the time were insufficient for what must have been\nprimitive TV cameras at the time and transmission had to cease 10 minutes from\ntime\u201d\u201d&nbsp; Whether the watching public were\ndeprived of an exciting finish is something on which the \u2018football trivia\u2019\nbooks are silent!!<\/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\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Main-Stand.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2844 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Main-Stand.jpg 990w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Main-Stand-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Main-Stand-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Main-Stand-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Underhill &#8211; Main Stand<\/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\">In 1994 the two end terraces were uncovered, and barely\nmore than 10 steps high.&nbsp; A covered\nterrace erected along the touchline.&nbsp; Again,\nno real depth to it, but the cover was low enough for a decent atmosphere to be\ngenerated.&nbsp; It was where the County fans\nwere positioned but there was precious little meaningful action to get excited\nabout.&nbsp; A scoreless draw.&nbsp; It turned out to be the first in a 10-game\nunbeaten run to the end of the season, but with only 4 victories, it was\ninsufficient to challenge the automatic promotion places and we had to settle\nfor the play-offs.&nbsp; <\/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\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Side-Terrace-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2845 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Side-Terrace-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Side-Terrace-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Side-Terrace-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Side-Terrace-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Barnet-Underhill-Side-Terrace-2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Underhill &#8211; East Terrace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Normally the location for County fans on my visits<\/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\">It was another goal-less encounter when we returned just over 12 years later.&nbsp; A game just as crucial, but for all the wrong reasons.&nbsp; Adrift after the Macclesfield debacle on Boxing Day 2005, a change of manager with Chris Turner sacked and being replaced by Jim Gannon, things had improved significantly, with 33 points from 21 games.&nbsp; But all was still to play for.&nbsp; With two relegation places to the Conference \u2018up for grabs\u2019 there were still eight teams involved, and we were one of them.&nbsp; In the event of Torquay and Oxford winning both their remaining games we knew that we had to win both as well.&nbsp; There was the game at Barnet and the following week against top of the table Carlisle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The encounter drew a decent crowd, with a big County following. Four days previously we had been thrashed, (4-0), at Torquay in one of the most desperate performances I have ever seen, so confidence wasn\u2019t high. But similarly for Barnet.&nbsp; We were on the same points, and separated solely by goal difference, (Barnet being 7 better off).&nbsp; It led to a torrid afternoon for all present.&nbsp; The fear of losing trumped any aspiration of winning.&nbsp; By 4.50 the relative positions of the two teams hadn\u2019t changed, but elsewhere Torquay had won at Carlisle; Oxford had drawn whilst Rushden had been relegated.&nbsp; There was one game left, and 7 teams battling to avoid the other drop position.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile has-background wp-block-media-text has-very-light-gray-background-color\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Barnet-Underhill-Open-Terrace-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6839 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Barnet-Underhill-Open-Terrace-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Barnet-Underhill-Open-Terrace-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Barnet-Underhill-Open-Terrace-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Barnet-Underhill-Open-Terrace-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Barnet-Underhill-Open-Terrace.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><strong>Underhill &#8211; North Terrace, ( in later visits the corner of this terrace, (from where the photo was taken), had a &#8216;marquee&#8217; type structure with seats for visitors)<\/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\">All we had to do was better the result of any one of Oxford; Torquay; Barnet; Notts County or Macclesfield to have achieved the great escape.&nbsp; The problem was that Carlisle would be our opposition.&nbsp; They had all but captured the title but would need a point.&nbsp; The events seven days later provided once of the most tension ridden afternoons I have ever spent.&nbsp; But more of that on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/2000s\/home-games-2006\/\">Home Games: 2006<\/a><\/strong> post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Just over 10 months later, we returned to Underhill in different circumstances.&nbsp; A couple of months earlier we had exited the FA Cup at nearby Watford.&nbsp; Gannon then went and made a loan signing, replacing Jamie Spencer in goal with a young lad from Wolves. It\u2019s probably fair to say that few players will have made a more successful start to their careers.&nbsp; As a keeper a clean sheet is always the objective.&nbsp; The newcomer went not once, but eight times better than that.&nbsp; It was of course Wayne Hennessy.&nbsp; Nine games; nine wins, and not a goal conceded.&nbsp; Highlights from each and every one of the games can be seen on the<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" StockportCounty1883 You Tube Channel (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/StockportCounty1883\" target=\"_blank\"> StockportCounty1883 You Tube Channel<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Barnet away was scheduled to be the tenth in a row, and it looked to be on target when Tes Bramble gave us the lead on the half hour.&nbsp; But, sadly, 854 minutes into his league career Hennessey conceded his first goal, and we went onto lose the game 3-1.&nbsp; It was the start of a disastrous run, with only 2 wins in the last 10 games, and despite a 5 goal win at the Darlington Arena on the last day we missed out on the play-offs, and had to wait a further 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">My last visit to Underhill was just after Christmas 2010.&nbsp; It was what turned out to be the relegation season.&nbsp; The season was 20 games old, and we had won a mere 5, and stood 21<sup>st<\/sup>.&nbsp; Snow lay on the ground, but it was handy that we, as a family, were spending the New Year at my sister-in-law\u2019s near Winchester.&nbsp; It was an 80-mile trip but infinitely better than the 192 miles from home.&nbsp; So, a ride up the M3 and round the M25 it was. &nbsp;It hardly drew the punters out, with 2,045 braving the elements.&nbsp; We won 3-1.&nbsp; I was to see us win only 4 more times in the Football League, and this was the penultimate away win.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Within a week Paul Simpson had been sacked and one of the most dreadful 4 months I have ever experienced following the Hatters ensued.&nbsp; Whether or not Simpson would have saved us from the drop is open to question, (although there are a variety of views about this).&nbsp; I\u2019ve got an open mind but have often wondered if the sacking hadn\u2019t taken place, and survival had been achieved, how different my last decade of watching County might have been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">My next trip to Barnet was in late 2018, for an FA Cup tie.&nbsp; But not to Underhill. &nbsp;That had long gone, and Barnet had moved to Edgware, not even in the town of their name.&nbsp; I will write more extensively about The Hive in due course, but as ever with these moves, the loss of Underhill might have been a financial and logistical necessity, but saw another traditional stadium consigned to the history books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">May 2020<\/p>\n\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>VISITS<\/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>Away Day<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>09\/04\/94<\/td><td>Endsleigh League Division 2<\/td><td>Tier 3<\/td><td>Barnet<\/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\">1,798<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">278<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>29\/04\/06<\/td><td>Coca-Cola Football League &#8211; League 2<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Barnet<\/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\">3,873<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">555<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>10\/03\/07<br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u81_a8vgiQ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(Highlights) (opens in a new tab)\">(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td><td>Coca-Cola Football League &#8211; League 2<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Barnet<\/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\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2,647<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">575<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sat<\/td><td>26\/04\/08<\/td><td>Coca-Cola Football League &#8211; League 2<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Barnet<\/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\">3,074<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">604<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tues<\/td><td>28\/12\/10<\/td><td>npower Football League &#8211; League 2<\/td><td>Tier 4<\/td><td>Barnet<\/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\">2,045<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">665<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\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>ON MY JOURNEY WITH COUNTY AROUND 180 GROUNDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">..<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-9 maxbutton maxbutton-previous-away\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1990s\/home-park-plymouth-argyle\"><span class='mb-text'>Previously &#8211; HOME PARK<\/span><\/a>\n\n<a class=\"maxbutton-10 maxbutton maxbutton-next-away\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1990s\/twerton-park-bath-city-bristol-rovers\"><span class='mb-text'>Next stop &#8211; TWERTON PARK<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First County Visit: Saturday 9th April 1994 Competition: Endsleigh League Division 2 &#8211; (Tier 3) Result: Barnet 0 &#8211; 0 Stockport County Attendance: 1,798 Away Trip: 65 Away Day: 278 County Line-up 1 John Keeley; 2 Sean Connelly; 3 Lee Todd; 4 David Frain; 5 Mike Flynn; 6 Dave Miller; 7 Jim Gannon; 8 Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>57 Hatters Years : UNDERHILL - BARNET<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stockport County - I made 5 County visits to Underhill. 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