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Wednesday giving West Ham a guard of honour in 1981 for winning the league young Shirtliff & Pearson in the photo 

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I do remember that

Great Pic. Your posts/ Pictures are always interesting for us of a certain age and always provoke a memory. Keep em coming mate

I remember that West Ham team being head and shoulders above anything else in the league that year

I believe its Billy Bonds and David Cross for West Ham in the picture

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51 minutes ago, The coach said:

Every pic from whatever year and all yer can see is empty seats..we need a smaller tight compact stadium asap

 

 

 

I'm not sure that will change the photos...

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3 hours ago, The coach said:

Every pic from whatever year and all yer can see is empty seats..we need a smaller tight compact stadium asap

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We need a big ground for when all the part timers come once or twice a season when there's a big game. 

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3 hours ago, Garryswfcowl72 said:

Wednesday giving West Ham a guard of honour in 1981 for winning the league young Shirtliff & Pearson in the photo 

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That sent me down a wormhole...

First thought was West Ham didn't win the league in '81 (they've never won it), so maybe the OP is getting confused with when West Ham won the FA Cup in 1980, so maybe Wednesday gave them a guard of honour as FA Cup holders at the first game of the 80/81 season. But we played Newcastle at home.

 

Then it finally clicked we played West Ham last game of the season on 8th May 1981 when they would have won that season's Division Two.

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I'd only been going a few months, I'd have been 9 by then, don't remember much about the game,  a vague memory of Jeff King going clear on goal but missing,  but for some reason I do remember that it was played on a Thursday night because the original April date was postponed because of freak snow. 

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3 minutes ago, alanharper said:

I'd only been going a few months, I'd have been 9 by then, don't remember much about the game,  a vague memory of Jeff King going clear on goal but missing,  but for some reason I do remember that it was played on a Thursday night because the original April date was postponed because of freak snow. 

 

So apparently it was a Friday night. I knew it was a very unusual night to be playing football in those days anyway. 

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9 hours ago, alanharper said:

I'd only been going a few months, I'd have been 9 by then, don't remember much about the game,  a vague memory of Jeff King going clear on goal but missing,  but for some reason I do remember that it was played on a Thursday night because the original April date was postponed because of freak snow. 

Yeah that’s my recollection mate

That the game was originally postponed due to snow 

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