School's Game With Adams, Rocastle, Thomas

The final home game of what was a pretty depressing season all round. We had seen the likes of Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton leave with little in the way of replacements; John Hawley and Ray Hankin puh-leeese.

On 31 October we played Coventry at home. It was our 12th game of the season, we were 17th and had scored just seven goals!

Anyway, fast forward May and we hosted Southampton. Before the game there was a school's match with some interesting names on the team sheet!

John Dickinson

Football was a very different beast back in the early 1980s as this message from the local plod shows.

The message appeared in the programme, on page 16, at the following home game against Liverpool.

Page three had a full page tribute to chairman Denis Hill-Wood who had also died.

Of the 24 pages in the programme, one and a half were given over to death...

Johnny Hoy

To show you how out of the loop I was at the Arsenal I have only just realised the significance of this letter!

It comes from Arsenal v West Ham United in 1982/83 season, a game better known for the smoke bomb and the stabbing of an Arsenal fan after the game.