by Mick Fox | Feb 29, 2024 | Retro Red Devils
I read the Barrow manager’s views on their postponement last Saturday, when the game against Bradford was called off just prior to kick-off as one small area of the pitch was not allowing the ball to bounce as it should. My personal opinion is that it is ridiculous,...
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...
