Pettgreen":mrop4etg said:
I wonder if all those fans that turned up for the Spurs game were classed as "day trippers" or "part time fans"?
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Both. The biggest losers were the faithful fans from deepest Cornwall and north Devon, the kind of people that could not afford a season ticket but went to every home game played on a Saturday. Saturday mornings were part of the working week then. Halfway through the fortnight leading up to the game Argyle withdrew the facility for postal applications and said that the remaining 25000 tickets would be sold at entry to the turnstiles for the Mansfield reserve game on the previous Saturday. Imagine some poor soul in Bideford or anywhere west of Bodmin who had to work on a Saturday morning. With the turnstiles opening at 1230 they had no chance and the tickets were gone by 2pm. It caused deep upset and some very devoted supporters never ventured into HP again. I have already written the full story as part of a book covering life at HP from 1959-62. Hopefully it will be out for Christmas but I have been saying that since 2012!! The story will include the identification of the 40 in the crowd of 40,040!