Try our 80s quiz -- part one!
By Ray Simpson
Questions about the 80s from Steve Rees
Steve Rees, our Quizmaster, has set some questions about Darlington FC in the 80s -- see if you can work them out.
Answers tomorrow.
- A tough one to start with: Quakers’ first fixture of the 1980’s was on New Year’s Day away to which Yorkshire club? We lost 2 – 1!
- In the first five seasons of the 80s, Alan Walsh finished top-scorer in each season except one, who spoiled his record in the 1981/82 season?
- Which player who appeared for Peterborough Utd at Feethams in the 80s, went on to win 75 full international caps for England?
- Throughout the 80s, six players scored Football League hat-tricks for Darlo. Alan Walsh and David Speedie are two, can you name TWO of the remaining four?
- In our 83/84 FA Cup run, which THREE non-League teams did we defeat on the way to Round 4?
- What amount was set by a football tribunal as the transfer fee for Alan Walsh to Bristol City?
- Which local grocer was Quakers’ chairman when Walsh was transferred?
- Which manager signed David Speedie for the Quakers? How much did he cost and for how much did we sell him to Chelsea?
- Which southern First Division team turned out at Feethams for a fundraiser during our 1983 Centenary Appeal? Who was their famous captain?
- Who was our top-scorer at the end of our 1984/85 promotion season?
