Eccles Files
Coventry City v Gillingham – November 13th 1996
For a small football club on the way up there are two basic dreams – to reach the top flight, and on the ...
Gillingham v Gorleston – November 16th 1957
On only five occasions in their history have the Gills entered the FA Cup at the “big boys” stage, as one of the final ...
Barrow v Gillingham – October 9th 1961
In 1957/58 the Football League announced its first major structural changes since 1920 and 1921 when the two Third Divisions had been introduced. ...
Gillingham v Southampton – August 28th 1920
Twenty five years previously, in 1895, New Brompton Football Club was on the crest of a wave. In just two seasons it had ...
Gillingham v Millwall - September 2nd 1950
It was the first Saturday in June 1950 and London was enjoying an early summer heat-wave. The red London Transport buses were creating ...
Exeter City v Gillingham 2008/09: Whenever I think of Exeter the back of my head starts hurting. It goes back to the days when I was a feisty ten ...
On the week of the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Gills365's resident historian Eccles looks back at life at Gillingham Football Club during the war years.
It was ...
Eccles returns with the latest instalment from the chronicles of the clapped out old duffers who travel the country following the Gills...The Zimmer Boys.
Us Zimmer Boys just love steam trains. ...
The Zimmer Boys are back! This is an occasional chronicle of the bizarre adventures of a group of Gills fans.
They’re clapped out, cynical, irreverent, and it’s best not ...
Gillingham v Bolton Wanderers – Saturday May 9th 1987
Gillingham v Sunderland – Thursday May 13th 1987
Sunderland v Gillingham – Sunday May 17th 1987
It looked as though Gillingham had blown it ...
New Brompton v Swindon Town – Saturday April 27th 1895
In the late nineteenth century the snooty residents of Rochester and Chatham tended to look down their noses at the newcomer ...
Gillingham v Merthyr Town – Saturday April 26th 1930
History has dubbed the 1920’s “The Roaring Twenties”. A celebrity time with people like film star Rudolph Valentino, Charles Lindbergh flying ...
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