Mutual respect between both sets of fans that night, and from us towards all their players - except for Steve Hayward who got booed every time he touched the ball (more so when he scored the equaliser) as he was blamed for ending the career of one of our youngsters (whose name escapes me - Steph something?) when he was playing for Carlisle. I think it was mooted that he might sign for us at one point (he was originally from Walsall so we’re his home town club) but no way would the fans have stood for it.
If you want to relive the night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHHp6hP27I
Stuart Ryder was the player and a very good prospect too
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One of my work mates was Haywards best friend, and quite a few years ago Hayward was asked to hand out trophies at my nephews school brownhills comp, so i told my friend that i was going to turn up just to give him a smack for what he had done to ryder, so i turned up and as soon as my mate saw me he came right over with hayward and said"this is the guy who wants to kill you" and hayward just held his hand out and said " it wasn’t intentional" so i just shook his hand and said ok 
i felt such a wimp after giving it the bigun 
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I would pay good money to relive that whole season.
I’d pay to go back in time and warn Barrie Blower about uncle Jeff and Peter Gilman…
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Fair. Wonder what we’d have been doing in 98/99 then? 
I’m proud to say that is my flag there. Many spoke of making banners etc but this was the one and only . My name is Paul Russell. I was a coach A regular with some fabulous people
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I read thru so many posts on this site and think we have some top people at our place…
Some great memory’s boys i wish i was old enough too of saw them kind of things instead of the idiots and ■■■■ away days we have now…
GeordieSAddler…You speak very humble honest words!
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Just before my time. I started following the team the season after that.
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Names on this pic …Rob Peters , John Moorhouse, Neil Bryan , Tina Fillery , Paul Russell & Mark Jones
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