Thought this was worthy of a mention.
Can you remember where you were on 21 December 1988 ?
The night of the Lockerbie disaster.
At the time we were doing very well in the old 4th division - from memory I think we were top having just won away at Burnley.
On 21 December 1988 we played
Chester at the old Sealand Road ground in the Preliminary round of the Sherpa Van Trophy.
A night match under floodlight at the old ground on a dry mild night with a massive away following banked up on the uncovered away terrace.
We took a 0 - 2 lead with Roger Preece scoring a diving header right infront of the away fans - we played in our all green away kit that night.
Chester got a goal back but we went on to win 1 - 2 infront of an attendance of 3,887.
Still remember being held up in traffic after the game as the police escorted a large contingent of Wrexham fans back to the railway station.
Meanwhile as we celebrated a win and were jubilant and in a happy Christmas mood, high up in the night sky a plane was about to explode.
Personally that event stayed with me - everytime I hear the Lockerbie word I remember that derby match.
Was anyone else there that night ?
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On this day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in mid air over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims were American.
Islamic terrorists were accused of planting the bomb on the plane while it was at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Authorities suspected the attack was in retaliation for either the 1986 U.S. air strikes against Libya, in which leader Muammar al-Qaddafi’s young daughter was killed along with dozens of other people, or a 1988 incident, in which the U.S. mistakenly shot down an Iran Air commercial flight over the Persian Gulf, killing 290 people