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Dale’s dark days paint vivid picture

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The LeaguePaper Team
18 December 2022

The Longest Winter - A Season with England’s Worst Ever Football Team, by Mark Hodkinson, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £16.99
Mark Hodkinson returns to the familiar territory of his previous books with the story of Rochdale’s worst ever season. This time he contextualises the football club’s struggles with the economic and social turmoil of the early 1970s.
In 1973-74, Rochdale were in the Third Division (now League One) and under a new manager Walter Joyce. Joyce’s plan was to use only young players during the season, but it massively backfired with the club winning only twice in ...

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