Our lass was watching some recorded TV earlier today and she called me in for mention of Mansfield Town and Chesterfield.
The series c/o BBC, is called "The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook". Unfortunately it appears not to be on BBC iPlayer but I bet there are some out there with the nous to find it somewhere, somehow...
The episode in question is "Under Pressure"
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07p0f ... %20British.)
So what is the link to Mansfield? Well this site (https://subsaga.com/bbc/documentaries/h ... ssure.html) has the transcript but basically the host mentions 1984 and a game between Chesterfield and Mansfield.
I particularly like;
But the atmosphere that day was charged with tension.
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Forget Liverpool and Everton or Rangers and Celtic,
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even Real Madrid and Barcelona.
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This was different.
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The air was electric with bitterness and betrayal.
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You see, Mansfield and Chesterfield were both mining towns.