1991/92 table

Compo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:06 pm

was looking at Johns web site and checked out the season I first properly went to pools (e.g. had a season ticket)

In that year we played, Birmingham, Fulham, West Brom, Bolton, Stoke, Hull and Wigan. Crazy how times have changed.

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... id=1991/92

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12450

Although not all of them in that year, we have also played the following in league games,

Workington, Barrow, Southport, Newport County, York, Kidderminster, Rushden and Diamonds, Scarborough, Darlington, Maidstone, Luton, Oxford, Cambridge, Grimsby, Boston, Chester, Halifax and maybe others....none of which currently enjoy league status.
Crazy indeed.

poolie bri · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:12 pm

derwent wrote:

Although not all of them in that year, we have also played the following in league games,

Workington, Barrow, Southport, Newport County, York, Kidderminster, Rushden and Diamonds, Scarborough, Darlington, Maidstone, Luton, Oxford, Cambridge, Grimsby, Boston, Chester, Halifax and maybe others....none of which currently enjoy league status.
Crazy indeed.

oxford??

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:38 pm

derwent wrote:

Although not all of them in that year, we have also played the following in league games,

Workington, Barrow, Southport, Newport County, York, Kidderminster, Rushden and Diamonds, Scarborough, Darlington, Maidstone, Luton, Oxford, Cambridge, Grimsby, Boston, Chester, Halifax and maybe others....none of which currently enjoy league status.
Crazy indeed.

Don't forget Gateshead; we played them on numerous occasions. Until they were shafted to our profit. By every imaginable standard of justice, we should have been down there with the Halifaxes and Workingtons instead of them.
But hey, let's complain about only being in the third flight for the fourth consecutive season instead. :wink:

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:45 pm

derwent wrote:

Although not all of them in that year, we have also played the following in league games,

Darlington

Crazy indeed.

Yes crazy days indeed. My late grandfather used to talk of playing them as I sat on his lap as a nipper. Hard to believe, he even said if didn't drink my milk I would end up playing for them "Darlington, who are they?" I used to say "Exactly" was his reply.

He was scouse.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12450

PJ_Poolie wrote:

derwent wrote:

Although not all of them in that year, we have also played the following in league games,

Darlington

Crazy indeed.

Yes crazy days indeed. My late grandfather used to talk of playing them as I sat on his lap as a nipper. Hard to believe, he even said if didn't drink my milk I would end up playing for them "Darlington, who are they?" I used to say "Exactly" was his reply.

He was scouse.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:50 pm

MadJohn wrote:

chip fireball wrote:

go back a few years to 1988

1 Liverpool 40 15 5 0 49 9 11 7 2 38 15 63 90
2 Manchester United 40 14 5 1 41 16 9 7 4 30 21 34 81
3 Nottingham Forest 40 11 7 2 40 14 9 6 5 27 22 31 73

Nottingham Forest in the top three of the top flight. It was a whole different era, and an altogether better one. In the decade from 1974-83 we had 13 different teams in the top three. Yes, thirteen. Arsenal, Villa, Derby, Everton, Ipswich, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Forest, QPR, Southampton, Watford and West Brom. Look at some of those names. Villa, Forest and Derby were champions, two of them also European champions. Ipswich made the top three more often than Man Utd; Watford made it as often as Arsenal.

Skip to the next decade. Ipswich, Man City, Southampton, Watford, QPR and West Brom didn't make the top three, but Blackburn, Crystal Palace, Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich, Tottenham and West Ham all did. Fourteen different teams all in the top three in our elite division. Very healthy competitive league. That takes us to the end of the second breakaway Prem season.

Then it all unravelled...

In the SIXTEEN seasons since then we have had just eight teams in the top three, and in the last decade that season drops to just five, with 29 of the 30 places taken by Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. Newcastle's third place in 2002/03 is the only non-"big four" team to get on the podium this century. Still, greatest league in the world, blah, blah, blah........ yawn1

Great post MJ, I was saddened when ESPN stopped covering the Blue Square, some cracking matches on there and plenty of ex-Poolies playing as well

Jonny · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:11 pm

Blue Square - would you fukking dare ? :grin:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:13 pm

Jonny wrote:

Blue Square - would you fukking dare ? :grin:

I'd rather watch the BSP then the premiershit

alienlife · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:17 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Nottingham Forest in the top three of the top flight. It was a whole different era, and an altogether better one. In the decade from 1974-83 we had 13 different teams in the top three. Yes, thirteen. Arsenal, Villa, Derby, Everton, Ipswich, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Forest, QPR, Southampton, Watford and West Brom. Look at some of those names. Villa, Forest and Derby were champions, two of them also European champions. Ipswich made the top three more often than Man Utd; Watford made it as often as Arsenal.

Skip to the next decade. Ipswich, Man City, Southampton, Watford, QPR and West Brom didn't make the top three, but Blackburn, Crystal Palace, Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich, Tottenham and West Ham all did. Fourteen different teams all in the top three in our elite division. Very healthy competitive league. That takes us to the end of the second breakaway Prem season.

Then it all unravelled...

In the SIXTEEN seasons since then we have had just eight teams in the top three, and in the last decade that figure drops to just five, with 29 of the 30 places taken by Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. Newcastle's third place in 2002/03 is the only non-"big four" team to get on the podium this century. Still, greatest league in the world, blah, blah, blah........ yawn1

That post sums up more than most articles I have seen exactly how and when money broke football. The number of British players in those sides must be low compared to the total number playing the the rest of the FL.

I know someone will attack this as a negative comment but I have no doubt that more than one season in the premier league as a poolie would be dull.

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