Try our 80s quiz -- part 2
By Ray Simpson
Questions set by Steve Rees
As part of our 80s celebrations, Steve Rees has set some brainteasers about DFC in that decade.
Here's his second quiz -- answers tomorrow.
- At the time the youngest ever manager of a professional football club, who was appointed Quakers’ boss in March, 1987?
- Apart from the answer to Question 11, Cyril Knowles and Brian Little, who were our other two managers of the 80s?
- Of all the Darlo players who turned out for the first team during the 80s, who was the only one to share his name with a species of bird? (He played between 1985 – 87)
- Who played in goal in Quakers’ magnificent FA Cup victory over Middlesbrough in 1985? Which top club signed him a year later?
- Which classy Quaker centre half (1983-86) used to clean David Hodgson’s boots when he was a Boro apprentice, until the new Boro manager, Malcolm Allison, released him?
- Which First Division club knocked us out of the League Cup, aka the Milk Cup, in the 1985/86 season?
- Kevan “Smudger” Smith played professional football for five clubs. Which were the other four?
- Which home match attracted Quakers’ highest League attendance of the 1980s – a crowd of 12,557?
- Who made his debut against Chesterfield in 1987 to become (up till then) Quakers’ youngest first team player?
- Who made his Darlo debut in the FA Cup tie against Halifax in 1989 whilst qualifying to become a physio?
