What is Margates most important match ever?

[wyise]

I am sure many people have diferent games, this really should be intersting....

 

There is important league games and cup games, what to we rate as the biggest games in Gate History??

[wyise]

Mine I think was a league match we played when on our way to the conference

 

I rhink we played Worcester City away? Correct me if I am wrong

 

I think we won 3-0, correct me if i am wrong

 

They were a top team looking to gain promotion themselves. It was eraly in the season, it sent a message out that we were a team going places, and we did.

 

One of my favourite matches was woking away in the cup, Elliot Martyn scored a wonderful free kick, we made it into the Sun on Monday, as performance of the weekend!!!!

[Cookie]

Well Tottenham at home in the FA CUP must rank as one of the most important in that competition for us.The best result must surely have been away at Bournemouth when they were flying high at top of the league.(forget which division).

As for league games there have been many, & to name one that I can remember as the most important seems a little difficult to mention.

[JeremyJacobs]

Spurs obviously but the win over Kettering in the Cup in the early sixties put the club back on the map. It's often mentioned in various publications. The win over Crystal Palace in 1935 was the biggest victory and ranks along with the win over Bournemouth. I'm certain that there were various important Kent League games in the 40' and 50's. THe KL in those days was one below the Southern League. equivalent to todays Conference South. In terms of ranking yes, but quality?????

[rayw]

I think in modern times it has to be Fulham. It really put the club in the spotlight in a way that hadnt happened for years.

I think it provided the springboard for the conference years.

More people in Thanet watched MFC in this match than anyother in its history. After the game i went down to the front and the pubs were still packed with people who had watched the game on sky.

[Coffin Ender]

The Fulham game was important but in a different way to how rayw suggests. The club was struggling financially around that time, so if we hadn't had the money (gate money+Sky) from the Fulham game who knows what the subsequent years would have been like? The Fulham game didn't really boost our support either. I think we played Fareham a week later in front of 350!

[Rob_Butler]

Quote:

cookie said:
Well Tottenham at home in the FA CUP must rank as one of the most important in that competition for us.

That was on the same day as Ramsgate V Nuneaten i have been told from me old man <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />? He had tickets to the Margate game and sold them . Instead he watched Ramsgate loose 1-0 at home.

[Graeme H]

The match away at baldock that finally got us out of the Southern Division, even though we had to win an equally important fixture with the league to persuade us to let us up.

One off cup games are lovely, but this game was more than vital. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/affig.gif" alt="" />

[Jack Metcalf]

Going to a different era,if I may,the game that remains in my memory the most is when in1951 or 1952,the reserves,in the old kent league, beat Folkesone reserves to win the championship for a record number of times and in which an inside forward,named Eddie Carr, broke the Kent League scoring record.

[blueblood]

3pm, Saterday the 20th of August 2005. Margate fc V Maldon Town. Margate are home and still in existance.Everything that as gone before pales into insignificance.

[Dutch_Mike]

Good shout BB

[wyise]

agree!!!

We take it for granted that we play football back in Margate

[Drummer]

In my opinion, for what its worth, Margate’s most important ever game is the current one – whenever and against whomever that might be.

 

However, I was interested in Jack Metcalfe’s item about 1950 or 1951.

 

According to the Kent League Centenary Book Margate Reserves won the Kent League Division Two nearest that time in 1953/4, runners up being Dover Reserves, by nine points, scoring 126 goals and losing only once at home, to Royal Marines Deal by a 2-1 margin. Sadly the book doesn’t list the team but from my memory, and with the help of Jeff Trice’s ever excellent history site, the names of Des Cross, Ronnie Martell, Jimmy Evans, Billy Hamilton, Len Revell, Les Smith, Dave O’Callaghan and Ossie Osmond crop up.

 

In 1950/51, they did win the Kent League Division Two Cup though and that team is listed in the book.

 

The names included there are the two Johnsons, Ron in goal and Frank on the left wing, Peter Seath and Arthur Nixon at full back; Reg Seager (spelt Seagar in the book), George (?) Longman and Charlie Baker in the half back line; Don Alexander (a vocalist who could be seen for many years at local shows), Derek (?) Wells (prior to conversion to defence), the fleet of foot Jock Flanagan and Tommy Bing (pre Spurs days) adding to Frank Johnson in the forward line.

 

Not a lot of people know that!

[JeremyJacobs]

Given our current form next Saturday against Dartford could be very important. Great shame we are doing so badly at present. Our crowds are better than those in BOTH Conference N & S. Only Kings Lynn and AFCW had decnt crowds yesterday.

[Jack Metcalf]

Thank you,Drumer, for the information in your post,it has jarred my memory and thinking back it is now clear to me that I have my dates badly mixed up. The period I was referring to must have been prior to 1939 because the 'Gate had two teams at that time - the reserves played in the Kent league first team played,of course,in the Southern league and the majority of the players were on Arsenal's books including Eddie Carr. Some of those players went on play in Arsenal's post war team, two of whom I remember - Horace Cumner (winger) and George Marks (goal). Please excuse my memory lapse. Best to you.

[JeremyJacobs]

Jack, do you habe any programmes amd memorabilia from that era?

 

Have you seen Jeff trice's excellent history website?

 

www.margatefchistory.co.uk

[Jack Metcalf]

I'm sorry Margate FC, I'm afraid that I don,t but I wish that I had. Thinking of all the places I've been and with the war years intervening and having travelled the length and breadth of most of N. America I suppose you tend to dispose of those sorts of things. Who could possibly have thought that those souvenirs would be of interest some sixty or seventy later. Best wishes.