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Still the FAC meant a lot more to us lot back then.
The Watford replay is still my favourite game at RH
And is one of mine as well, because the Print Co I worked for had the contract that season for printing the programmes, which I did for every home game.
From an average print run of between 3,000-4,000 depending who the opposition were, we produced 25,000 for the Liverpool game.
The format for this one was different to League games, & a larger sized one was wanted.
To keep costs down, only the front, back & inside covers were printed on the usual '100gsm art paper'.by me. Our Press Room which had a 6 unit Goss press, which could print a 96pp newspaper ( & did every week, Walthamstow Guardian ) ran the inner pages in one hit in under an hour.
It took me up to 2 days before the game ( which was called off the day before, due to the frozen pitch, so much for keeping the snow on it till the last minute! ) to complete the total amount.
This was due to the fact we had heavy snowfall the previous Sat ( Dec 30th ) which prevented me going in on NYE for another 6am-6pm shift.
'Mature aged' fans like me, will recall the league game with Watford postponed on NYD due to the snow, which was a shame, as we would have pulled in a 17,000 crowd that day, easy.
FYI I printed 6,000 progs for the Watford game, as the club worked on the theory that 1 in every 2 brought a programme back then.
The quantity soared mega for the Liverpool game, as rightly so they thought more fans would buy one for a souvenir of that momentous game.
Needless to say, I've still got mine in pristine condition!.
( An added bonus was I had got married 5 months earlier, & with all the O/T ( paid at double time! ), we were able to upgrade our black & white TV, for a colour one!. Ahhh those were the days....
