{"id":611,"date":"2020-03-26T20:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/?p=611"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:34:57","slug":"the-racecourse-wrexham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1980s\/the-racecourse-wrexham\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RACECOURSE – WREXHAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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First County Visit:<\/td>Friday 30th March 1984<\/td><\/tr>
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Competition:<\/td>Canon League Division 4 – (Tier 4)<\/td><\/tr>
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Result:<\/td>Wrexham 1 – 2 Stockport County<\/td><\/tr>
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Attendance:<\/td>1,252<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Trip:<\/td>32<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Day:<\/td>93<\/td><\/tr>
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County Line-up<\/td>1 Mike Salmon; 2 Andy Thorpe; 3 John Rutter; 4 Dean Emerson; 5 Paul Bowles; 6 Tommy Sword; 7 Nigel Smith; 8 Graham Jones; 9 Clive Evans; 10 Steve Taylor; 11 Tony Coyle<\/td><\/tr>
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Scorers:<\/td>Steve Taylor; Clive Evans<\/td><\/tr>
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Manager:<\/td>Eric Webster<\/td><\/tr>
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County Visits:<\/td>23<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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It seems strange that it took me nearly six years and 92 previous trips before I managed the Racecourse. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Not much more than 50 miles away, and certainly amongst our fellow travellers for much of my journey, but for those six years they were resident in a higher division, indeed mixing it on the European stage courtesy of a series of Welsh Cup wins.  Two consecutive relegations had reduced them to our level by 1983\/84.  There had been one previous chance with an FA Cup 3rd<\/sup> Round tie in early 1979.  The weather was pretty grim as 1979 dawned, and the Wrexham tie was one of only two games County managed to play in a spell of seven and a half weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that the Racecourse fixture was managed easily.  Originally due on the first Saturday in January the snow that blanketed the country throughout the month saw NINE unsuccessful attempts to get things underway.  I had actually set off for at least three of those but fortunately didn\u2019t get too far.  At the tenth time of asking, and even then on a snow covered surface, it did happen.  I\u2019d given up on that day, confident that it was going the way of all flesh, like the nine that had gone before, and was amazed, and dismayed, when news came through an hour or so before kick-off.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a chance of making it over the border in 60 minutes and finding a ground I\u2019d never visited previously.  Nor, if truth\u2019s known, did I have the heart to venture out with a forecast promising a hairy trip back.  A good choice in the context of that most powerful of tools – hindsight.  An exit by 6-2 wouldn\u2019t have warmed the cockles anyway.  So it was another 5 years before the border was crossed, giving County just about the nearest they have ever had to an away European game! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Yale Stand as it was when I first went to The Racecourse – the standing area at the front was converted to seating many moons ago. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the years prior to my first visit there had been more than a bit of investment at the Racecourse.  Reasonably regular participation in European football probably demanded an updating of the facilities.  The Yale Stand had been constructed in 1972, replacing the old Popular Side, and remains to this day, albeit that where was once a paddock at the front this is now occupied by seating.  Looking from this Stand to the right is the Border Stand.  Built 6 years after its bigger brother it has, in more recent visits, (other than a couple of visits since the Hatters dropped out the league where we have been located in the Main Stand), been the habitat of away fans.  Good seating with a decent view, again like the Main Stand what was once standing is now out of use.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Border Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Opposite was the Mold Road Stand which was used on my very first visit but never thereafter.  Terraced in front it had a varied mixture of edifices at the rear.  Once again looking from the Main Stand, at the left was the Turf Hotel, where legend has it a vantage point, albeit not a spectacularly good one, could get a sight of the action from the \u2018conveniences\u2019  Quite how true that is I don\u2019t know but I have my doubts.  I was never tempted to try.  If one has just driven 50 miles or so it seems to me that getting a sub-optimal view at the price of saving a few quid seems like a fool\u2019s economy.  It did have a balcony where the view would have been a good one, but I imagine that the landlord was pretty choosy about who he allowed patronage to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mold Road & Plas Coch Stands, with the Turf Hotel partially visible on the left<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Turf Hotel gives an indication of the antecedent users of the site, but really that doesn\u2019t require too much guessing given the name of the stadium.  But the gathering of architecture on the Mold Road side, which certainly had more than a bit of a curve to it, is probably proof.  The middle part of this side of the ground was occupied by the Mold Road Stand itself.  The photograph clearly shows that it was set back a fair way from the pitch with a decent terrace in front.  In the other corner was the Plas Coch Stand, a wooden affair, which prior to the construction of the Main Stand had housed the dressing rooms.  All of these fell victim to the tender caresses of the bulldozer around the turn of the millennium.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its replacement is, I think, an impressive design, with a sweeping roof, plenty of seats, and inside the ubiquitous conference and banqueting facilities. The quaintness of the old Mold Road side may have disappeared, but it\u2019s non-use on most of my visits before its demolition, always, to me, left the Racecourse a somewhat soulless experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pigeon Loft \u2013 bring in the H&S boys!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To the left of the Main Stand was the Kop.  Reproduced is a photograph of what must be the strangest stand that must ever have graced a football ground.  Sadly I never saw it in situ, but have been captivated by photos of it.  So a bit of a digression, but regard it as the author indulging himself! The Kop itself was a pretty large terraced area.  Perched at the rear was once the balcony at the Majestic Cinema in the town.  It certainly doesn\u2019t look the safest of environments \u2013 just take a look at the less than straight line at the front! Put up in 1962, it was quickly dubbed the Pigeon Loft.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It saw 16 years of service before being deemed unsafe.  Unsafe for football apparently, but not for rugby, as it gained a third life with the Wrexham Rugby Club.  It\u2019s a matter of personal regret that I never saw it \u2013 whatever else it might have been, then \u2018unique\u2019 is a more than apt description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kop terracing remains, with a more modern, and unquestionably safer, cover.  But it\u2019s not used these days.  It\u2019s been a couple of years since we were called on to visit the Racecourse, but without speccies behind the goal it still has that three sided ground feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Archive footage of the Racecourse as it was in 1979<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simon Inglis, in his 1983\ntome, introduced his look at the Racecourse by looking back.  The football club had been resident since\n1905, but it had previously been used for other sports.  The Sport of Kings definitely, but there\nseems to have been a darker side.  Fifty\nyears previously Inglis uncovered that it was \u201ca place where drunkardness and vice were encouraged to a terrible\nextent\u201d<\/em> It would be exaggerating to say that it ever took on this cloak on\nany of my 22 visits.  Aside from a bit of\ntaunting there\u2019s never, to my knowledge anyway, been much untoward.  I suspect that\u2019s not the case when Chester\ncome a\u2019 visiting, nor when Wrexham make the reverse journey.  Strangely enough, as I write, at the tail end\nof January 2017, the \u201cbubble\u201d match took place last weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those not \u2018au fait\u201d with the term, it\u2019s attached to a fixture when the constabulary deem it to be in the category of highest risk match.  Entry is more than strictly controlled.  Travelling fans are required to report to their home ground; put on coaches; driven to the gates and only then are given their precious means of admittance.  Ninety minutes later, back on the transport and delivered back to the Deva Stadium in this instance.  Pity the poor Chester fan who may for some reason live in one of the houses on Mold Road.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People do move away from their home town in search of employment.  But for them there is no relaxation.  It involves driving to the Deva, going through the whole sorry process, and then having to drive back home.  I understand the need for control in what could be described as a flashpoint game, but this seems beyond ludicrous, and by the look of it so do travelling Wrexham and Chester fans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gate at the Deva last weekend was under 4,000 and earlier in the 2016\/17 campaign it struggled to get over 5,000.  The three previous seasons have seen crowds at the Racecourse of well over 6,000.  There was plenty of comment on social media that fans have just about had enough of this approach and voted with their feet.  Given that the home Clubs will be picking up a substantial tab for the policing, and would do whether it was a \u201cbubble\u201d match or just an all ticket game, it\u2019s arguable that each Club is losing out to the tune of \u00a315,000 as a result.  Money that they can ill afford to miss out on.  It\u2019s a National League game for heaven\u2019s sake, not World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s strange writing these memories.  Each chapter concentrates on a ground, and the Club associated with it, but 32 grounds in, it seems to have adopted the pattern of recalling some instance at the particular location and thus affording me the opportunity to reflect on things.  On exactly the same day, last Saturday in fact, (21st<\/sup> January 2017), Darlington were the visitors to Edgeley Park.  A decent away following and a great atmosphere as over 3,600 watched a National League North game, (yes it was that size of crowd at a Tier 6 fixture!!), and the local plod took the opportunity to boost the coffers.  Tactical Aid Units lined the streets of Edgeley; with more police than you could shake a stick at, (but hardly advisable as they were itching to detain any transgressor of any shape or form), and the only product was a hefty bill for County.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a time when cash in the lower echelons of the game is so scarce and Clubs limp from week to week, this kind of imposition reeks of overkill and a total lack of public accountability.  If the police want to turn up then so be it, but why do they, indeed why should they, expect the bill to be footed for their presence outside of the ground.  It\u2019s disgraceful.  Which other sport faces this kind of thing.  The answer of course is none.  It\u2019s easy money to bolster their resources.  It\u2019s about time football as an industry took them on and challenged the premise of their policies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So finishing off the\nRacecourse.  I\u2019ve always enjoyed going\nthere.  I\u2019ve got a great parking spot,\n(but sorry I\u2019m not revealing it!!), which allows ease of egress and a quick\ndash back across the border.  Nine wins\nand three draws.  In the wider context of\nAway Days that\u2019s a pretty good record. \nHopefully the team that Jim Gannon is now fashioning will allow a return\nto the National League sooner rather than later, and I\u2019ll be able to get back\non the road to Wrexham again \u2013 that is of course if the Red Dragons haven\u2019t\nre-elevated themselves to the Football League!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postscript – March 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We of course did get back into the National League, and as it turned out a visit to the Racecourse was scheduled for early in the season.  An all-ticket affair for County fans, (at least).  The ground remained unchanged from my previous visit, which was a 6-1 debacle in a Trophy replay some four and a half years earlier.  That was a dreadful night, (only offset by getting a comp off Richard Landon), which saw a truly appalling County side fail to trouble a stand-in keeper for the whole of the second half.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visit on the last day of August 2019 was far more fruitful.  A 2-1 win, despite having to withstand a siege for much of the second stanza.  What we didn\u2019t know at the time was that when Jake Kirby limped off in the first 10 minutes this was the last we would see of him \u2013 he retired from the game shortly afterwards.  I was disappointed \u2013 I thought he offered a fair bit, but it had been an injury plagued career.  He ended having played in just under 50 games for the Hatters, notching 9 times in the process <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VISITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day<\/strong><\/td>Date<\/strong><\/td>Competition<\/strong><\/td>Tier \/ Round<\/strong><\/td>Opponents<\/strong><\/td>Res<\/strong><\/td>F<\/strong><\/td>A<\/strong><\/td>Crowd<\/strong><\/td>Away Day<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Fri<\/td>30\/03\/84<\/td>Canon League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>1,252<\/td>93<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>29\/09\/84<\/td>Canon League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>4<\/td>3<\/td>1,516<\/td>100<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>25\/04\/87<\/td>Today League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>1,433<\/td>144<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>26\/09\/87<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>1,946<\/td>147<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>08\/11\/88<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>1,865<\/td>163<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>05\/09\/89<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>2,333<\/td>175<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>16\/04\/91<\/td>Barclays League Division 4<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>3<\/td>1<\/td>1,918<\/td>211<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>08\/03\/94<\/td>Endsleigh League Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>4,756<\/td>274<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>12\/11\/94<\/td>FA Cup<\/td>Round 1<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>4,740<\/td>290<\/td><\/tr>
Mon<\/td>17\/04\/95
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Endsleigh League Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>3,008<\/td>300<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>05\/09\/95<\/td>Coca-Cola Cup<\/td>Round 1 – 2nd Leg<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>D<\/td>2<\/td>2<\/td>2,769<\/td>304<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>16\/03\/96<\/td>Endsleigh League Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>3<\/td>2<\/td>4,081<\/td>321<\/td><\/tr>
Thurs<\/td>26\/12\/96
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Nationwide Football League – Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>3<\/td>2<\/td>6,736<\/td>342<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>07\/02\/04<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 2<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>D<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>5,046<\/td>501<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>02\/11\/04<\/td>LDV Vans Trophy<\/td>Northern Round 2<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>2,130<\/td>514<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>07\/12\/04<\/td>Coca-Cola Football League – League 1<\/td>Tier 3<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>3,984<\/td>516<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>01\/10\/05<\/td>Coca-Cola Football League – League 2<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>3<\/td>4,153<\/td>537<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>30\/01\/07
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Coca-Cola Football League – League 2<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>4,060<\/td>572<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>29\/12\/07<\/td>Coca-Cola Football League – League 2<\/td>Tier 4<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>4,287<\/td>594<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>15\/10\/11
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Blue Square Bet Premier<\/td>Tier 5<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>0<\/td>4<\/td>3,874<\/td>685<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>09\/02\/13<\/td>Blue Square Bet Premier<\/td>Tier 5<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>4,206<\/td>718<\/td><\/tr>
Tues<\/td>09\/01\/15
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		FA Trophy<\/td>Round 2<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>6<\/td>1,373<\/td>764<\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>31\/08\/19
(Highlights)<\/a><\/strong><\/td>		Vanarama National League<\/td>Tier 5<\/td>Wrexham<\/td>W<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>5,777<\/td>848<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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ON MY JOURNEY WITH COUNTY AROUND 180 GROUNDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

..<\/p>\n\n\nPreviously – BUCKS HEAD<\/span><\/a>\n\nNext stop – ROOTS HALL<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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