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BIG REUNION: Former Southend players met up last March

REWIND back to April 25, 1981 on a warm spring evening at Plainmoor, and a young student helps to chair star striker Derek Spence off the pitch as Southend United clinch promotion, capping a glorious season for the yo-yo Shrimpers.
Some 36 years later that same student calls up Blackpool FC knowing Spence works at the club, and wonders whether the likeable Irishman would meet up with him and his pals in town to help mark the occasion of him reaching at Bloomfield Road that holy grail of groundhoppers – the 92.
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