To prove your point I had never heard of Chesterfield being a rival of any sort!
My dad always says that Wrexham used to be a grudge match.
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Chesterfield was always tasty in the 70ās. Iām embarrassed to say that I once got in there with an 18ā metal pipe hidden, which I threw into the area where their fans were 
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āIs that a metal pipe you have hidden or are you just pleased to see Alan Buckley?ā
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I was at that game too. Midweek game as I remember. Waiting to get out of the car park after the game and a couple of lads fighting rolled across our bonnet. Seemed to take forever to get away from the ground that night!
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I seem to remember a game against Vale, it would have been in the 80ās sometime at Vale Park, it was foggy, they were lobbing bricks over at us so I spent all game trying to watch the game and dodge the bricks at the same time
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Even though we have left the EU, I believe we still have an extradition agreement with Spain.
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Yeh i bet that Belph fella is down on the Costa Del Crime with the likes of Terry Leatherā¦ name that series you 2 old gits 
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Auf weidersehen pet 2 ?
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Donāt be embarrassed 
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I was thinking more along the lines of āSexy Beastā.
Don: You ever worked in an office?
Jackie: No.
Don: Nice telephone voice. Iāve worked in an office. I was 17. Does that surprise you?
Deedee Dove: What, that you were 17?
Don: [slow malevolent head turn] You got very nice eye, Deedee. Never noticed them before. They real?
I hear there is some very nice decorative tiling at the bottom of his pool.
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God yes I remember the celebration for Kennyās ( sorry , āmyā ) goal being off the scale . Off the knees into the top of the net at the Hilary Street in the last few mins v Chesterfield.
Not quite as big as the other gem you picked out : Childs v Shrewsbury which has to be one of the best of all time . That followed up a build up of pressure from us it all exploded when we scored , what a rasper it was too .
Amazing how we still remember stuff so vividly 40 years on !! Both cup games interestingly , early / mid 80ās ā¦ the cup really mattered then .
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I hope lowe and simkin are mentally prepared for the abuse they are going to potentially recieve on saturday. Doubt they will have recieved such before
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Villa and Wolves fans just have something about them which puts me off chatting football with them. Conversation always ends in Steve Bull or European Cup 1982. But football wise weāre streets apart.
I think our footballing rivals shifts depending on our division and whatās going on in that division or where players and managers go. I donāt think we can class anyone as our actual rivals.
We werenāt keen on Mansfield for a while, not bothered now !
That Gary Childs goas was one of the biggest surges i ever experienced in the Street End
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Amazing. Weād camped in their half for about 25 minutes and they had been holding outā¦and then Gary Childs hit a belter and it was unbelievable, best goal ever. Iād travelled with friends who were Salop fans, Iād like to say on the journey back I was respectful and not smug and didnāt gloat at all. Yeah, right. Credit to them for not throwing me out of the car somewhere on the A5, I would have deserved it. 
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This has been an interesting down memory lane thread , I find it weird how some canāt ārememberā what for me are our true rivalries - mind you I left the UK so long ago now it was literally a different place.
But as I said
Slopies
Vale
Followed by
Chesterfield
Will always for me have special meaning
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Iām sure Big Dave will get some too!
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God yeah forgot about dave.
He used to run the shop opposite my parents in Leighswood Road, Aldridge in the 1970ās after heād retired. Always seemed like a good bloke. He must be getting on a bit now as Iām 67 and he was older then me.
I think that was the game that Nick Athey scored from a corner.