What it was REALLY like to be there (1965 Spurs game)

[Plainmoor78]

Floodlights were first used at Plainmoor in the same season as this FA Cup run, but when during the season I don't know.

[samuel]

I was there against Spurs at the Babbacombe End, aged 11. We were at the front. The fence collapsed and me and Mike Griffiths, my class mate from Tweenaway, ended up on the pitch with all the others. The replay was on my 12th birthday the 13th January. A wasted trip. Because I bunked off school the headmaster (Pinky Thomas) made me and about 40 other kids have detention and write 100 times 'I waste Time and Money'. Talk about rubbing salt in. We were warned if we went to the rearranged match we would be expelled. I was tempted but mum wouldn't let me go. An early lesson on the unfairness and harshness of life being a Torquay United supporter.