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IMPORTANT: now I've got your
attention I just want to get my excuses in
before you start looking at this content. Two problems: first, the poor
light of an evening game means that auto-exposures
are long exposures, so the photos are inevitably going to be
blurred with all the movement going on. And other photos have been
captured from TV coverage (I try not to do that now, but hey, this is
special!), which means that the resolution of
the resulting still-image is bound to be poor.
Secondly, the video and audio pieces here are extra long because
they were just too
good to cut! So that means I've had
to be quite severe in compressing the files, hence not the best
of quality, especially the
audio. There, excuses done, but on the other hand the content is superb,
so just think of the lack of quality as adding to the atmosphere!
Special thanks to Gordon Sparks for stunning radio; top coverage from a
top man. And thanks to Tom Jarratt and James Mead (some of the photos
are theirs), and to the BBC and Carlton Westcountry (some stills taken
from their news reports). Finally, a big thank you to Tim Roughton for
his video footage. I saw Tim with his camcorder on the pitch.
Not knowing him I said who I was and he
immediately handed over the tape for me to use! No questions asked, no
second thought. That's what I call trust, that's what
it is to be Green! |
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ACTION STATION |
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Football League Division 3
March 26th 2002
Rochdale 1 Argyle
3
Attendance: 4,457
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THE DAY IN PICTURES |
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Click on the thumbnails for the full images, use
your back-button to return.
Thanks to all concerned (see above). |
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SPARKSY'S
ARGYLE LIVE ON 855
Much bigger files than normal
because this is just too good to miss! If you can
only spare a few minutes, click on the 'brief all-in-one'
link. But much better, find
a half an hour or so, sit yourself down with
your favourite drink and click on each in turn.
It doesn't get much better than this, so enjoy!
(and for an
amusing moment, listen out for Coggo's interview)
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Enter the gladiators
1-0
1-1
1-2
1-3
The final whistle
and all the celebrations
and to summarise
it all:
A brief all-in-one
Finally,
acknowledgements. How about sending them a message?
Acknowledgments
All copyright BBC Radio Devon. .
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Grateful
thanks to Gordon Sparks and BBC Radio Devon for their permission
to use programme extracts. |
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RAW AND REAL |
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A real treat this,
'amateur' video footage from
the stand and pitch gives a real taste of the atmosphere and excitement.
Big thanks to Tim Roughton.
Warning: this is a large file (3300K)
so will take around 15 minutes to download on a 56Kb line, but for nearly 2
minutes of raw celebration it's worth the wait) |
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MATCH REPORTS |
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BBC Devon
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Early arrivers, and outside the packed chippy
across the road, Keef and yours truly (very proud of birthday present!)
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The team warm up, Pete already celebrating, but
Argyle fans a bit more apprehesive ...
Goal celebrations ...
The final whistle, smiles, hugs and mobile phones
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Let joy be unconfined ...
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