Blimey, top marks, Pixelator! I've checked the Aldershot result, and it
was a 1-1 draw, and it
was a 'live' game (which would have been shown the day after) according to
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=499101&page=2. The 0-0 was a couple of years earlier.
However, I've also found out that the photos weren't from that game because on the front of the photos (I've cropped them a bit) it says Sept 71. Assuming that I did the note at the time and that it's therefore accurate, it can't have been Aldershot as that was late August. Odd, cos I always remembered that it was.
So who was it?
In September 71, our home games were:
6-0 v Hartlepool
5-1 v Peterborough
2-0 v Stockport (midweek game).
Looking at the photos, although they're too poor to be certain, I think it was an afternoon game, which would rule Stockport out (in part, it was my first season of watching the Bees and I wouldn't have been certain that the light would be good enough. Having said that, if it was a midweek game and the light deteriorated later, it would explain why I only took shots of one half!)
The 3 teams we played that month I think all had away strips at the time of plain blue shirts, so that doesn't help (as did the two August games - Aldershot and Barrow.
However, one other clue is that by the time of the Stockport game, I'd have been back at my boarding school and wouldn't haqve been able to see the match: in fact, I could easily have been back at school by the time of the Peterborough game - our term always started somewhere between the 14th and 21st of September or so.
The evidence therefore points towards the Hartlepool match. That makes the most impressive thing about them the following:
In a 6-0 home win, how on earth did I manage not only to miss all the goals but also take only 2 photos both of which showed the away team on the attack????
Brilliant.
