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First League Match 1970 v Lincoln - Were you there? What do you remember?

15/8/2018

It's August 15th 1970. Cambridge United are playing their first League Match against Lincoln.

It is less than twenty years since the club had changed its name from Abbey United. The dream had been fulfilled, The journey to the Football Lague completed

Were you there?

What do you remember about being there?

What are your memories from that period?

Who was in the team that day

Watch the first football league goal scored by Colin Meldrum here

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3 Comments

david stone

15/8/2018 09:42:54 pm

i was at the first game against lincoln with my complimentary season ticket given to us by the Smarts for putting in the new concrete terracing at the allotments end and helping to put up the wire fencing at pitch level, after finished working we were given a pint of beer from a barrel kept in the ambulance room,most welcome after shoveling all that sand and gravel .

DMJ

16/8/2018 03:21:53 pm

Other replies from the facebook site

David Cooper - went to the game....i remember the buzz...leading up to the season...being voted in into the league....being in with the big teams...how far could we go...the FA Cup 1st round....big crowds..Lincoln fans being turned away outside of Cambridge...because fear of crowd trouble....just a magic time for U's fans.....and the city still stuck in the non league....best time to be a Utd fan....because it was the unkown...and we had come so far...over 10 years....up the U's...

Andrew Holdsworth --- Yep was at this match! Still got the programme !

Roy Alan Ethridge Yes I was there - First win was oldham

Mark Churchill ---- Yes i was there, 1-1 if i remember, in the nre at
10yr old. Great day.

Ray Newman I was there one all draw Lincoln all in red I think big step up for Us

Aidan Jones --- Trevis (?) scored first for Lincoln, sweeping home (according to Cambridge News?) from edge of penalty area after about 20 minutes. Equaliser in second half from close range.
Visitors had come onto pitch several minutes before United. Draw was a fair result. Highlights were broadcast on TV the next day. Leivers reportedly said something about how for once he was content just to enjoy the match.

Derek Lay I remember the score being One, One. and a photo in the daily mirror of a lincoln player and Cambridge united Peter Legget not sure about the spelling,but they said he looks like he could be the next George Best, some think like that, it was a long time ago

Russell Unwin Yeh i was there,played in the all white with black and amber cuffs and collars

DMJ

16/8/2018 09:51:46 pm

Russ Gladwish I was 9 and still living in north London

Paul Capitain I was there. I think Percy Freeman scored for Lincoln.

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