SOMETHING caught my eye while researching my Jayne Mansfield article last week, and please don't think smuttily of me for it.
It was this picture from the Echo after the Quakers' 3-2 home defeat to Oldham on April 8, 1967.
The Quakers had been promoted from Division 4 the previous season - a very rare excursion up to the dizzy heights of Div 3. It didn't last long, as by the Oldham match they were looking odds-on for the drop and the crowd, after 9,342 on the opening day of the season versus Watford, was tailing away.
This is, though, fairly positive. The outlook for Darlo has always been bleak and yet somehow they have always pulled through it. How, with some silverware freshly placed in the closet, could anyone call the current situation, with the ground in administration, bleak?
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