Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
I started attending NP regularly from March 1978 having moved back to the area from Essex. I don't remember the floodlight episode that you mention but it sounds reasonable. If we had been relegated I could understand such a drop but we weren't.
I think the problems had been sorted by March, but in the first half of the season we only played midweek matches until about September and even then they kicked off at 5.30/6, while Saturday afternoon matches were starting at half one and two during the autumn.