by Mick Fox | Feb 13, 2024 | Retro Red Devils
No, not the crisis of 2023 but 50 years earlier in the 1973/74 season where, by the end of February 1974, we were rooted at the bottom of the Southern League South Division having not won a game since 1st December 1973. That December day we had a surprise 1-0 home win...
by Mick Fox | Feb 3, 2024 | Retro Red Devils
In the last few days of our exhibition at Crawley Museum, I bumped into a couple of people who had found relatives of theirs amongst the hundreds of photos on show – pictures they certainly weren’t expecting to see. Strangely, both of these visitors’ relatives played...
by Mick Fox | Jan 13, 2024 | Retro Red Devils
No, I am not referring to the present day (but who knows, after that brilliant win at Bradford!) but a season I have written about several times in the past: 1967-68, our fifth season in the Southern League. I was recently loaned some old scrapbooks by ex-player Vic...
by Mick Fox | Jan 1, 2024 | Retro Red Devils
It doesn’t seem to matter which “Dons” we play at the moment, we can’t get a result. After a very poor first half against the AFC version, we did the opposite in the first half of the MK version, but just cannot convert the chances we make. It’s a story told often...
by Mick Fox | Dec 21, 2023 | Retro Red Devils
By “The Dons” I mean the original team of that name, who played at the old Plough Lane ground and who we would first meet in their first season in the Southern League Division One in 1964/65 after they transferred from the Isthmian League that close season. Wimbledon...
