by Mick Fox | Sep 28, 2023 | Retro Red Devils
What a difference a cracking away win makes to your weekend and the start of the new week! Unfortunately I chose to go to Grimsby last season when, in the final game of Kevin Betsy’s ill-starred reign, we lost 3-0 to go bottom of the league and concentrate our minds...
by Mick Fox | Sep 14, 2023 | Retro Red Devils
Let’s start with the 6-0, as it’s fairly topical, and we have all had a couple of weeks to get over it. All you can do is move on from such a shocker, and I am sure most would agree that we have moved on pretty well! In a similar vein, and looking back to 16th August...
by Mick Fox | Sep 3, 2023 | News, Retro Red Devils
My previous article ended with us in the 1970s and the start of our slow decline. Failing finances, poor results and equally poor support made for a fairly depressing decade of Southern League football at Town Meadow, with just the odd bright spot standing out in my...
by Mick Fox | Aug 14, 2023 | News, Retro Red Devils
I ended my first RRD looking at a programme from the first league game at our new ground at Town Meadow in 1949, and before I move on to other topics in future articles, I thought I should carry on where we left off and revisit the early years at Town Meadow through a...
by Mick Fox | Aug 3, 2023 | News, Retro Red Devils
It seems strange to be writing a retrospective article and launching it on this very much 21st-century medium of the internet! However, the football club’s rather sad decision to scrap matchday programmes (whether physical or digital) has led to a massive outpouring...
