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Eighty-Eight Years Of Hurt Didn’t Stop Us Believing

Coventry City v Gillingham – November 13th 1996 For a small football club on the way up there are two basic dreams ...

Gillingham’s Biggest Cup Win

Gillingham v Gorleston – November 16th 1957 On only five occasions in their history have the Gills entered the FA Cup at ...

Nightmare On Holker Street

Barrow v Gillingham – October 9th 1961 In 1957/58 the Football League announced its first major structural changes since 1920 and 1921 ...

Welcome to the Football League

Gillingham v Southampton – August 28th 1920 Twenty five years previously, in 1895, New Brompton Football Club was on the crest of ...

Priestfield’s biggest league gate

Gillingham v Millwall - September 2nd 1950 It was the first Saturday in June 1950 and London was enjoying an early summer ...

Seven go mad in Devon

Exeter City v Gillingham 2008/09: Whenever I think of Exeter the back of my head starts hurting. It goes back ...

Priestfield at War: 1939–1945

On the week of the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Gills365's resident historian Eccles looks back at life ...

A North-Eastern Romp – Darlo v Gills

Eccles returns with the latest instalment from the chronicles of the clapped out old duffers who travel the country following the ...

Into the jaws of hell – Summer 2008

The Zimmer Boys are back! This is an occasional chronicle of the bizarre adventures of a group of Gills fans. ...

The Greatest Game in History

Gillingham v Bolton Wanderers – Saturday May 9th 1987 Gillingham v Sunderland – Thursday May 13th 1987 Sunderland v Gillingham – Sunday May ...

New Brompton pass the test

New Brompton v Swindon Town – Saturday April 27th 1895 In the late nineteenth century the snooty residents of Rochester and Chatham ...

Top Gun Fred

Gillingham v Merthyr Town – Saturday April 26th 1930 History has dubbed the 1920’s “The Roaring Twenties”. A celebrity time with ...

The Swindon Saga

Gillingham v Swindon Town – Saturday March 31st 1979 Swindon Town v Gillingham – Saturday May 5th 1979 It has now turned thirty ...

GFC on Sky TV

Brentford v Gillingham – Monday November 18th 1991 When Gillingham were ignominiously relegated back to the Fourth Division in 1989, all the ...

Barry Town Stomp

Barry Town v Gillingham – Saturday March 15th 1947 Like most football teams, myths have grown up around Gillingham that are often ...

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

Gillingham v Shrewsbury Town – Saturday April 28th 1979 The winter months of 1978/79 have gone down in political history as "The ...