From Saltergate to....
55 years on from my first football match at Chesterfield, to what, today, might be my last, since in 3 weeks time we are flitting across to the other, colder side of Hadrian's Wall and it's not very likely that I'll be coming back just to watch the Spireites. In fact, I've been watching Sheffield United instead recently but that's another story and besides, that doesn't wipe out all the memories, going back to that first game, a 2-2 draw with Workington in October 1963. The 1960s were a 4th Division era, the 1970s a 3rd Division one, with the time since then spent alternating between the two. This long spell of respectable mediocrity has been interrupted by 2 significant events; the Anglo-Scottish Cup win in 1981 and the out-of-character FA Cup run to a semi-final replay in 1997. As the Anglo-Scottish win slips further into the distance, some folk are beginning to remember it (or in most cases, hear about it) as Town beating Rangers in the Final, but t...