grey_squirrel I remember us all being gob smacked when Tricky Trev trotted onto the pitch at Lincoln. He had no chance of playing due to his injury, yet still pulled his boots on, played typically cr@p and scored! No way in a month of Sundays, any of our prima donna's would be @arsed to do that today.
Was one of about 100 Royals at our next league game, our first defeat, in the cold mist at our, then, bogey team, Bury. Lost 1-3. It was dismal. Undone by their wonder kid at the time, Craig Madden, IIRC.
Well thats 2 out of the 100 or so sorted, I was there too. Craig Madden played for Bury at the time but I seemed to recall Winston White, a beast of an old fashioned centre forward doing the damage scoring twice.
Strangely and often forgotten, if we had won that game we would have also taken the record for most consecutive away wins from the start of a season, we'd won 7 on the spin, but the 8th alluded us.
And yes it was indeed dismal.