im sure editor will be on his way in a minute...
There was a similar five or six horse race for the championship to this season, but without one team pulling clear like Wealdstone did. Enfield were a big club in those days (the original one, not Enfield Town who we played this season), we played them near the end of the season on a Saturday afternoon and they brought about 400-500 supporters. If we'd played Maidstone at a similar stage of this season on a Saturday we could have had a similar sized crowd.
I was told a number of years later, that the season collapsed after a nameless Club official, who I won't name, as this is anecdotal, confirmed by three players of that team mind, that went into the chaging room before a home game, while the team talk was taking place, stood and listened, then said something along the lines of "It's not worth bothering, we can't go up with our ground anyway"...bearing in mind there was no Conference North & South in existence, and ground gradings were thus higher for the top National division.
The other factor that didn't help was that Joe Odegbami - an incredible player who was as vital to that team, if not more so, than Erhun to the current one - got injured around about the time our form began to dip. He came back towards the end (I recall him coming off the bench for that Enfield game, which ended in a 1-1 draw after we'd scored inside the first five minutes) but was clearly nowhere near fully fit and a shadow of the player who had masterminded our fantastic results over the first two thirds of the season.
Like pompeydunc a lot of locals were probably more interested in the St. Pauli game..
But would we rub each others nipples... (Ooh, gone too far?)
