Those Were The Games

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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 – to reach the top flight, and on the ...
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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 the “big boys” stage, as one of the final ...
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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 when the two Third Divisions had been introduced. ...
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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 a wave. In just two seasons it had ...
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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 heat-wave. The red London Transport buses were creating ...
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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 at Gillingham Football Club during the war years. It was ...
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The Greatest Game in Historyvideo attached

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 ...
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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 tended to look down their noses at the newcomer ...
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Top Gun Fred

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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The Swindon Saga

Gillingham v Swindon Town – Saturday March 31st 1979 Swindon Town v Gillingham – Saturday May 5th 1979 It has now turned thirty years since a certain home game was played with ...
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Brentford v Gillingham – Monday November 18th 1991 When Gillingham were ignominiously relegated back to the Fourth Division in 1989, all the familiar clichés and excuses were trotted out. "We’ll ...
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Barry Town Stomp

Barry Town v Gillingham – Saturday March 15th 1947 Like most football teams, myths have grown up around Gillingham that are often not born out by the facts – for example ...

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