Help for an article - WHY are Darlington our rivals?

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:21 pm

As part of a rivalry article I'm writing for another site, I was wondering, apart from the obvious locality of the two teams, why us and Darlo are such big rivals?

If any of you have any stories from way back when I'd be much obliged. I'm writing the article tonight so the sooner the better. If you have any other comments in regards to why the rivalry is so good/heart-rending/etc, just put it down. I want to put the rivalry on the map and, considering it's on an American website, I need to make the game sound particularly grand. :sweeeet:

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:24 pm

i cant understand it all in all honesty darlo are in county durham, hartlepool are (now confised

) in cleveland... personally i couldnt give a monkeys about darlo but i dont hate them apart from when we are playing them :wink:

poolpower · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:30 pm

probably due to locality and the fact that our history has run on a parallel with them
for most of our time we have both been the pooor relations of the football world with only sporodic highs to brag about

Jonny · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:38 pm

MadJohn wrote:

It's a season out of date now, but this article still holds true

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_article0002.asp

In part 4 the pic of Alan Murray looks a bit like Bobby Moncur?

On Pools v Darlo rivalry wasn't there a Poolie stabbed by a Darlo fan in the 70's or is that a myth.....

aptid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:49 pm **Posts:** 1506

An interesting read but isn't that Bobby Moncur posing as Alan Murray on the last page?

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:41 pm

Cheers. That looks cracking. I'll give you credit for anything I use if I do - I've got the most part written off the top of my head but that looks amazing.

If there's any more anecdotal stuff from any of you - examples of prime rivalry in the past, or defining moments, please tell me! :)

aptid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:49 pm **Posts:** 1506

You should be known as Mad & very fast John clappp

well done!

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:01 pm

MadJohn wrote:

I guess the most notorious Pools/Darlo game was at Feethams in March 1978 just two days after Pools fullback Dave Wiggett had been killed in a car driven by Bob Newton. A fair number of Darlo fans chanted through the minute's silence before kickoff and the game was a very bad-tempered affair. There was a running battle throughout between Derrick Downing for Pools and Darlo's Lloyd Maitland. Downing was eventually sent off, and Maitland further infuriated the Pools fans by throwing away his black armband. Red cards were pretty rare in those days. It was only Pools' 12th since WW2, and was only the third time in Football League history that a side had won away from home after having a man sent off. A 17-year-old Keith Houchen got the winner.

Billy Horner pulled no punches, saying that the offending Darlo fans were "a disgrace to their club, their town, and the human race"

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_match.asp?oid=2737

The irony is that the game in which we won 0-3 not so long ago also happened to be the 29th anniversary of that matchup!

Is it okay if I can use that story as part of mine? Full credit to you and ITMC of course

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:06 pm

MadJohn wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

MadJohn wrote:

I guess the most notorious Pools/Darlo game was at Feethams in March 1978 just two days after Pools fullback Dave Wiggett had been killed in a car driven by Bob Newton. A fair number of Darlo fans chanted through the minute's silence before kickoff and the game was a very bad-tempered affair. There was a running battle throughout between Derrick Downing for Pools and Darlo's Lloyd Maitland. Downing was eventually sent off, and Maitland further infuriated the Pools fans by throwing away his black armband. Red cards were pretty rare in those days. It was only Pools' 12th since WW2, and was only the third time in Football League history that a side had won away from home after having a man sent off. A 17-year-old Keith Houchen got the winner.

Billy Horner pulled no punches, saying that the offending Darlo fans were "a disgrace to their club, their town, and the human race"

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_match.asp?oid=2737

The irony is that the game in which we won 0-3 not so long ago also happened to be the 29th anniversary of that matchup!

Is it okay if I can use that story as part of mine? Full credit to you and ITMC of course

Course you can. Use anything you like, no problem

Cheers! :) What's your last name? PM if you prefer to keep that air of mystery.

And I now officially owe you a pint. :sweeeet:

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:14 pm

MadJohn wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

Cheers! :) What's your last name? PM if you prefer to keep that air of mystery.

And I now officially owe you a pint. :sweeeet:

No mystery, plenty on here already know it. It's John Phillips

I never even knew that story - absolutely blown away by it. Pretty much filled in the grey areas of my article in that one paragraph!

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

MadJohn wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

Cheers! :) What's your last name? PM if you prefer to keep that air of mystery.

And I now officially owe you a pint. :sweeeet:

No mystery, plenty on here already know it. It's John Phillips

You could have just done a Who is lookup on for inthemadcrowd.co.uk :shock:

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:41 am

DanielGaunt wrote:

MadJohn wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

Cheers! :) What's your last name? PM if you prefer to keep that air of mystery.

And I now officially owe you a pint. :sweeeet:

No mystery, plenty on here already know it. It's John Phillips

You could have just done a Who is lookup on for inthemadcrowd.co.uk :shock:

*shrug*

I wanted him to know I knew, that's all.

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