Teams Tradional Race Nights

[keef robin]

I used to travel up from Swindon on Saturdays (I was at school during the week) to see a lot of Arsenal and Chelsea games in the late 60's and early 70's. I'm sure that on travelling back from the games from Paddington and passing Reading, that the Racers would very often have a meeting at Tilehurst. I can even see the big old fir trees that used to skirt the back straight next to the railway line.

 

As previously posted, Reading ran on Mondays didn't they?.............but these were definitely Saturday meetings.......confused

 

Also travelled up on the train and coach, before the m4 was built in 1970, to watch the Arsenal after we had moved out of London to Swindon and remember passing Tilehurst, now an industrial estate.

[cityrebel]

With the exception of three Tuesday fixtures against Exeter all Tilehurst matches were Mondays.

 

Smallmead staged some Friday matches in 1975 to catch up with their fixture backlog, and one Sunday meeting (27 July v Newport). In subsequent years one or two Sunday events have not been uncommon and they did briefly move to Fridays during the Bulldogs era, but I can't think of any Saturday meetings.

the World Cup final was on a Saturday Arnie.

[stevehone]

Reading another thread started me thinking about tracks race nights from sixties & seventies

 

Here's the ones I think remember - correct me if I'm wrong & add others if so desired

 

Monday ...... Reading, Exeter, Newcastle

Tuesday...... Leicester, West Ham

Wednesday. Poole, Hull

Thursday.... Wimbledon, Sheffield, Oxford

Friday......... Hackney, Newport, Wolverhampton, Edinburgh

Saturday..... Cradley Heath, Belle Vue, Coventry, Swindon, Glasgow

 

for some reason I thought Poole were Tuesdays

[cityrebel]

Poole were Tuesdays when Weymouth moved there in 1985.