Dave Merrington

[deancourt]

Listen to Radio Solent post match programme Saturday 5-6pm , Dave said that Saints used to have one of the best defences for goals against not only in the Premier League but in Europe too ??? What season is he referring too

 

[cockbeard]

39/40?? Incomplete season, we did alright too. Clean sheet, weren't many of those across Europe, plenty of shots though

 

[Chris2001]

He talks nonsense

 

[nd9cherry]

He talks nonsense

Ive always thought he talks a lot of sense...very critical of stains...

 

[wingsnwheels]

39/40?? Incomplete season, we did alright too. Clean sheet, weren't many of those across Europe, plenty of shots though

Didn't we beat Northampton 10-1 that season?

 

[BillMcgarrycherry]

Didn't we beat Northampton 10-1 that season?

10 - 0......my Dad was at the game.. season abandoned on the Monday after..!...six weeks later he was driving a tank in Egypt !

So Boscombe were top of 3 South for 5 years!

 

[hba1]

10-0

 

[BillMcgarrycherry]

Ive never heard of a Dave Merrington.in football... but
wasnt he the old gaffer in Fools and Horses ?

 

[cockbeard]

I thought it 0, hence the clean sheet comment, but could be wrong

 

[AFCBade]

We used to be great defensively too under Dave Webb...but not sure what the relevance of that is to this season.

 

[billythekid]

‘And I’ll tell you this’.

 

[Deleted member 754]

RIP

 

[tedisking]

Ive never heard of a Dave Merrington.in football... but
wasnt he the old gaffer in Fools and Horses ?

Buster Merryfield......?

 

[Sweetcherrity]

Listen to Radio Solent post match programme Saturday 5-6pm , Dave said that Saints used to have one of the best defences for goals against not only in the Premier League but in Europe too ??? What season is he referring too

Maybe Buster Merryfield may know the answer

 

[cockbeard]

Buster Merryfield......?

hahahaha, thats's brilliant, makes complete sense, local bloke, I used to do impressions of him as a seven year old, totally who Bill's thinking of, but I culd never have joined the dots, well bloody done

 

[AlGard]

10 - 0......my Dad was at the game.. season abandoned on the Monday after..!...six weeks later he was driving a tank in Egypt !

So Boscombe were top of 3 South for 5 years!

We had drawn the 1st game of the season I think. We were 3rd when war broke out.
I used to have the Echo Pink of that game many years ago. God knows where it went.

We had one disallowed as well.
I was right in line and it was never offside!

 

[wingsnwheels]

Wiki has us 8th with 3 points after 3 games. GD of 13-4. 2-2 and 10-0 at home, 1-2 loss away.

 

[billythekid]

10 - 0......my Dad was at the game.. season abandoned on the Monday after..!...six weeks later he was driving a tank in Egypt !

So Boscombe were top of 3 South for 5 years!

They remember it well.

In the three seasons prior to the breakout of World War II, the Cobblers finished 7th, 9th and 17th respectively in Division Three (South), while in 1938 the Cobblers signed John Parris from Luton Town who was the first ever black player to play for Wales. In the final match prior to the War, the Cobblers travelled to Dean Court and lost 10-0 to Bournemouth, the club's record League defeat. During the war the Cobblers had the record for the first transfer fee received during the hostilities when Bobby King was sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers for a substantial four-figure fee.

https://www.ntfc.co.uk/club/club-history/

 

[OLDSKOOL]

‘And I’ll tell you this’.

“Well , you knnoowwwwwwwww”

 

[OLDSKOOL]

10 - 0......my Dad was at the game.. season abandoned on the Monday after..!...six weeks later he was driving a tank in Egypt !

So Boscombe were top of 3 South for 5 years!

Brave bloke ! My grandad was a Sapper in Egypt- part of Western Desert Force under Wavell , then at Tobruk and El Alamein - clearing mines for the tanks !
Do you know what your dad drove ?