05-09-2008, 12:18
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Re: Gillingham match
Extract from a Gill's supporter's piece:
"Anyone old enough to remember the .............. scouser kid in the late 1980’s milk advert “Accrington Stanley - who are they? Exactly!” probably never thought the Gills would be playing them in a League game at Priestfield twenty years later. 47 years after we last beat them 5-1 (on 2nd December 1961, a result later expunged as Stanley withdrew in March from Division Four) we found ourselves facing a club that had eventually reformed and gradually edged their way back up the pyramid before rejoining the League two seasons ago. Four years ago we were winning 2-1 at Burnley to go 10th in the Championship with Sunderland next on our fixture list, Stanley were fresh from beating Crawley in the Conference.
Nothing illustrates our dramatic fall from grace (and the heart-warming progress at Accrington) more than our meeting - with the Gills chasing a first home goal, win and point this season, not to mention revenge for the last meeting to stand which saw a 3-0 loss in Lancashire back on Monday 12th September 1960…
............... how it only ended up 1-0 only the Gillingham strikers and the Stanley keeper Arthur could tell you. Stanley had two great shouts for penalties for handball, one looked blatant, and headed a late chance wide"
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6th March 1962 - They turned off the gas but nothing could extinguish the flame!
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