Halifax win at home 4-0 to go top, crown 1,822. If we ever go back into that league I'm giving up.

NL is just a bad dream.
Liked Halifax ground real old fashioned one.
1822 is a disgrace.

To be fair, the away side were Eastleigh. No club has ever (at least post war) brought less to the Vic than them. They brought 15 once!!! How's that even possible!?!

If the NL was regionalized you'd have the likes of Bradford PA, Farsley Celtic, Guiseley and York City at the Shay. Would be MUCH higher attendances than 1,800.

Me too. I couldn't stomach non-league again. If we ever get relegated I'm going to find another hobby, I've always fancied taking up the ukelele.

There was a Nana’s crocheting competition going on down Eastleigh that week, you can’t compete with stuff like that, tsk.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=548XXb8jcis

Like this?

Spot on, that’s their forward line in the ‘Crochet Squad’..... it’s massive in Eastleigh

14 passengers and the driver.

shows you there was 15 idiots wasting money and time travelling over 600 miles round trip for a 90 minute game of non league football. actually in the early 60,s i imagine even in playing in west yorkshire me and my old man were the only poolies at the shay and the two bradford clubs. of there was they had a very low profile.

really cold day there and with eastleigh not being the biggest of interest it wasn,t that bad for them. however being top of the league you,d have thought a few hundred more would have bothered.

I think if Pools went down to that level again they'd struggle to survive. Away crowds of 15 just isn't sustainable. No wonder so many teams such as Hereford, Darlington, Chester, Halifax and Scarborough died at that level. Its obviously not sustainable, of course not like the FA care.

I just can't fathom how a club playing at such a high level, a level higher than York, Chester and Darlington can only muster 15 away fans. Completely sums up everything wrong with the game.

As for Halifax, if it's anything like Bradford then it's glory hunter Central. Man U fans to the left, Leeds fans to the right. Eggchasers stuck in the middle.

you can add burnley and huddersfield to that list. the smaller towns around halifax like brighouse, elland and the calder valley is where in football halifax have always been the poor relations especially when kids grow up and can go with their mates.

you can add burnley and huddersfield to that list. the smaller towns around halifax like brighouse, elland and the calder valley is where in football halifax have always been the poor relations especially when kids grow up and can go with their mates.