Workington

[The Lone Gunman]

I was at the Newport Workington game at Somerton Park around 1972.
I recall the game was all over after about 8 minutes as Newport I think were 2-0 up.
My good friend long dead walked out on 10mins after announcing this is shit. ��

Newport's home results against Workington during the relevant period:

1969/70 = 0-1
1970/71 = 2-2
1971/72 = 0-1
1972/73 = 2-0
1973/74 = 4-0
1974/75 = 3-1

Curiously, Workington's final two matches in the Football League (1976/77) were against Newport in May 1977. County won both games 1-0.

[splott parker]

Curiously, Workington's final two matches in the Football League (1976/77) were against Newport in May 1977. County won both games 1-0.[/QUOTE]
You’d have thought that at least one of those was a rearrangement as the game up north was the 14th and the game at Somerton 3 days later. Most probably a waterlogged postponement from earlier in the season, I remember that 1976 was a ‘splitting the flagstones summer’ but then the most successful politician in his role ever, the ex football referee, Dennis Howell was appointed as Minister of Drought, he was so successful that after his Autumn appointment it lashed down continually for weeks.