Yep defo radio Wales on Tuesday. Waynne Phillips et al.

Any darlo memories to keep us going for the next hour or so?

does anybody think mathias pogba might get a start up front today?

The one and only memory I have is from the last game of the season away against them a couple of seasons ago. It was a 1-1 draw Danny Williams scored a cracker for us which was replayed on their big screens a few times, only good thing about that big empty hangar of a stadium. Unfortunately they equalised towards the end cue a pitch invasion at full time (no real reason for it) with both sets of fans on the pitch separated by stewards. What made it memorable for me was Michael Ingham giving me his gloves at the end of the game, still got em somewhere I think.

they had a egomaniac chairman too........................


True to the tangled affairs of many lower-division football clubs, there is more to Darlington's descent into administration – again – than a clear-cut, heart-rending tale of a small club gamely failing in a rich man's world. On Saturday, after the *Quakers' rough 2–1 home defeat by Maccles*field, on a cut-up pitch at the outlandish 27,000-seat arena built by the former owner George Reynolds, Raj Singh, vice-chairman until he resigned a fortnight ago, rubbed his eyes in the spotlit boardroom, and sighed.

Darlington's ex chairman George Reynolds, an orphan and borstal boy, may have been seeking the love and respect he had never known by building his £16m monument, but he ran out of money before completing it and borrowed £3.5m from Davies and two associates, and £400,000 from Davies personally, in 2002. The agreement stipulated interest of 30% payable on the whole amount if he missed a payment, and just before Christmas 2003, Reynolds was forced to put Darlington into administration. *Davies' loan meant the club and ground came to him, and he demanded possession of Reynolds' house, too.

Reynolds refused to be sunk, bouncing back with a business selling "adult bedroom furniture" and S&M equipment, under the unbeatable slogan: "Your home may well be your castle, but where do you put the dungeon?" But in October 2005 he was back in prison himself, convicted of defrauding the Inland Revenue of more than £400,000 tax.

Now, when the fans sit watching their team in that cantilevered bowl of grand pretension, it is as if they are paying, every week, to spend time in Reynolds' head.

"The stadium is a white elephant," rues Tony Taylor, chair of the supporters' trust, who first rattled a bucket in a Darlo crisis in the early 1970s. "We need to understand how so much money has been spent in such a short time here, and we need to rally, again, to save our club."

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Team: maxi, obeng, andrews, sinclair, ashton, blackburn, tolley, keates, nkp, taylor, mangan. Griff
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Subs: brown, smith, gall, hunt, cieslewicz. Blackburn\'ll play in front of the back four.
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The teamsheet says jamie trolley-and that\'s how they announced him! Griff
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Couple of memorys really, the old feethams ground i went to once, cant remember the score though i was only young at the time, also been to the new stadium in a season opener a few years back, horrible souless bowl.