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... in relation to FA Cup win in 1987 and tomorrow's clash in semi final. A life's ambition fulfilled I'm sure, as he's now met Mike Bushell.

1-1 now

I've just checked two random years on footballwebpages and it was true in both 1952 and 1955, so I might not bother looking at others. Looks like the Oxford year was the last time.

I'll check in my (dad's) season tickets when I get home from Norfolk in a day or two.

If I recall right, in those days you had the same opponents in the second and fourth games of the season.

At Sincil Bank, it was one of Oxford's first matches in the Football League. They had Imp-to-be Bud Houghton and were captained by big Ron Atkinson. RA's brother was also in the team.

That's exactly what I thought, he'd have to be a contortionist.

I'd be very surprised if it wasn't out.

More BBC cost cutting - no chairs.

I remember playing against Jimmy Fell and Ken Fencott in the Harrows at Hykeham one evening.

Hannah Dingley, who briefly had charge of FGR, has taken up a job with the FA of Ireland

Another of theirs has 2/4 and another 1/7 so they have 19 in total.

Akinde puts Colchester ahead against Wrexham.

B Cowley

I suspect a necessity for the job in those days was to write (and read) shorthand. His father was a printer. MB died in Jan 1985.

Thanks for the details. People today can't realise what a palaver it used to be to phone, especially when you had to phone the operator to connect you. It was only from sometime in the 1960s that could call direct from Carlisle to Lincoln.

I wasn't intending to be negative, just remarking how much things had changed in the past 60 years.

We shouldn't forget that MB did his report during the match and it would have been submitted before the match was actually finished, the last ten minutes' play simply mentioning if any late goals were scored. I've no doubt the Carlisle reporter had the benefit of a video recording of the game...

... following two from Garrick!