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It would be nice to report that this 4th round FA cup tie between second division Rugton Dead End and top flight Metro Velvet at a packed Gimmer Hogg Lane was a humdinger but in fact it was goalless and dull, like many football matches. The encounter took place during the miners' strike and was, though, notable for a couple of things. Rugton's chairman, Sir Royston Piggins, who was also a local pit owner, in a gesture of reconciliation towards the town's disaffected working classes, made a much-publicised offer of free pies for all at the game. Not a single pie was left uneaten by half-time but Sir Royston, aglow with his own magnanimity -- if not for the recent memory of the football -- discovered afresh the town's hard-bitten dislike of condescension and the depth of bitterness engendered by the national stand-off when, at the end of the match, he found his Rolls Royce Silver Wraith buried under five tons of slag in the Directors' Car Park. |
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