The effect of that solitary strike that even then looked like a mere consolation was stunning.Cobblers 3-0 Bristol Rovers (Division Two Playoff Semi-Final 1998)There were reports that Gayle had wound up the Rovers players no end in the tunnel just before kick-off and the intimidation factor continues as the sides came out. As Town supporters were leaving the Memorial Stadium at the end of the first leg, the Rovers PA announcer started singing about how his club were going to Wembley and that’s all the Cobblers fans needed as motivation. The first leg at the Memorial Stadium saw the Cobblers fall 3-0 behind thanks to a Peter Beadle penalty followed by goals from Frankie Bennett and Barry Hayles. With a second Wembley appearance in successive seasons on the line, the Sixfields roar was sucking the life out of the visitors before a ball was even kicked.This is one of those games where I really don’t have to say a lot but one which could elicit an essay if given the chance. The Football League play-offs for the 1997–98 season were held in May 1998, with the finals taking place at the old Wembley Stadium in London.The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed … I will try to contain myself but, with this one still standing as what I still believe to be the single greatest night in Sixfields history, that could be a challenge!The place was rocking even with Town two goals from levelling the tie and I still don’t think I’ve seen or heard anything like it inside the walls of Sixfields since. Our semi-final opponents were Bristol Rovers, a team managed by a young Ian Holloway in his first top job as a player-manager. Season summary. It was Clarkson’s only ever goal for the club and in many ways his final hurrah as he would severely break his leg in August of that year in a game against Lincoln City, limiting his final few appearances.These were already heady times. It all looked lost even a quarter of the way through the tie but suddenly a long boot up field saw Big John race onto the ball and loop it over the head of Rovers keeper Lee Jones. Division Two (League One) Playoff Semi-Final . 10 October 1998 () 12: Northampton Town: 3–1: Bristol Rovers: Northampton: 15:00 BST: Heggs 30 ' Corazzin 44 ' Hunt 52 ' Meaker 21 ' 68 ' Challis 90 ' Stadium: Sixfields Stadium Attendance: 6,023 Referee: Bill Jordan Promotion via the Division Three playoffs via Wembley a year earlier had set light to an ambition not seen for years in this part of the world. At 3-1, the tie was still not over and boy did we let the Gas Heads know that.Reaching the playoffs was an immense overachievement by Ian Atkins and his latest band of merry men and the town was dreaming of a second successive promotion.
Bristol Rovers v Northampton Town, Memorial Stadium, May 1998
He opened the scoring after a tension filled opening half an hour, getting on the end of a corner to edge us in front on the night and the Cobblers never looked back.By the time this second leg came around, Northampton was fired up. 13 th May 1998. We have one of those stadiums where noise can get lost on occasions but not on this night. The pride that night after the semi-final was amazing and though promotion to the second tier of English Football was agonising to miss out on, I think the glory and sheer brilliance of this night made it that bit more bearable!The obligatory pitch invasion followed and rather than try and do a lap of honour, the Town players instead came around the back of the West Stand, up through the gates and into the stands to celebrate with the fans in a moment of unity that will never leave me, and I’m sure thousands of others.20 Years of Sixfields Stadium – The Top 20 MomentsCarl Heggs, defeated by the Cobblers at Wembley the previous May, was coming off the end of an excellent and mercurial maiden season after swapping The Vetch Field for Sixfields shortly after the Playoff Final. How on earth a team based solely on spirit and the right attitude managed to not only stay at the top end of the table for most of the season but also momentarily bother top spot was beyond me and many others. The 1997–98 season saw Bristol Rovers reach the playoff places, finishing in 5th place and despite taking a first-leg advantage of 3–1 against Northampton Town, Rovers subsequently lost 3–0 in the second leg and went out 4–3 on aggregate in the semi-finals.
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