0:120:330:46 This was the first outing of the signs that say "Quality". John Beck put them up because he wanted something for the players to aim at when they hoofed the ball up the field. This sounds like a joke but I've recently been reading about it in a newspaper from the time. Another thing that keeps coming up in the old editions of the local Cambridge paper I've recently been reading is how desperate we are to move to a better stadium and how we simply have to move out of our outdated ground ASAP. Over 31 years on and practically nothing but the away end has changed! This game was part of our disastrous run of 7 home games, where we drew 5 and lost 2 against sides who eventually finished 14th, 17th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 10th and 19th. The Abbey had been a fortress in the run up to September 1991. We'd won 15 and drew 3 of our previous 18 home games in league and cup until then. It was the draws that killed us that season. We drew 16 of our last 33 games! I know football is full of "ifs" but we would've got automatic promotion to The Premier League if we'd scored just 1 more goal in 3 of those 16 drawn games or, in fact, if we'd got 8 rather than just 2 points from those 7 very winnable games I mentioned above.
0:12 0:33 0:46 This was the first outing of the signs that say "Quality".
John Beck put them up because he wanted something for the players to aim at when they hoofed the ball up the field.
This sounds like a joke but I've recently been reading about it in a newspaper from the time.
Another thing that keeps coming up in the old editions of the local Cambridge paper I've recently been reading is how desperate we are to move to a better stadium and how we simply have to move out of our outdated ground ASAP.
Over 31 years on and practically nothing but the away end has changed!
This game was part of our disastrous run of 7 home games, where we drew 5 and lost 2 against sides who eventually finished 14th, 17th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 10th and 19th.
The Abbey had been a fortress in the run up to September 1991. We'd won 15 and drew 3 of our previous 18 home games in league and cup until then.
It was the draws that killed us that season. We drew 16 of our last 33 games!
I know football is full of "ifs" but we would've got automatic promotion to The Premier League if we'd scored just 1 more goal in 3 of those 16 drawn games or, in fact, if we'd got 8 rather than just 2 points from those 7 very winnable games I mentioned above.