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Anoraks 51 - one fat lady - big draws!

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What have these two sets of teams in common?

Set 1 - Doncaster Rovers - Swansea - Gillingham - Manchester United

Set 2 - Coventry City - Notts County - Chesterfield - Bolton
 
Aug 8, 2013
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One fat lady = 8 ?

Something to do with 4-4 draws, inspired by last week's result ?

I'm grovelling here.....
 
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This one has definitely run out of 'time added on' even by Wycombe standards!

Gary S guessed that it had something to do with the 4-4 draw at Wimbledon which had me wondering on how many other occasions Argyle had been involved in 4-4 draws in the League. I stopped looking after I found the 4th example!

So here they are and you can see that one list involves the teams Argyle played immediately before the 4-4 draw and the other list comprises the teams played immediately after.

Season 33-34 Man Utd 4-0 West Ham 4-4 Bolton 0-2
Season 36-37 Doncaster 7-0 Bradford City 4-4 Coventry 0-2
Season 70-71 Gillingham 2-1 Shrewsbury 4-4 Chesterfield 0-2
Season 85-86 Swansea 2-0 Cardiff 4-4 Notts County 0-2

All these 4-4 draws were at home - the pattern of win - 4-4 - lose 0-2 was worrying but they managed to put that to bed with the draw against Shrewsbury.

Are there any other 4-4 draws lurking in the archives?

PS Apart from Golden Hindhead who was watching the match with me does anybody remember the 4-4 draw with Fulham Reserves in the early 60's when It was 4-0 to Argyle at H-T before Scottish international Graham Leggett scored 4 in the second half to level it up?
 

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Wrexham away was a 4-4 in the Warnock era.

Memory tells me Grobelaar was in goal, Corrazin scored and in contrast to Wimbledon recently we let our lead slip away in the second half. Think we were 4-2 up.

Not checked GoS so happy to be corrected.
 
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I remember the Wrexham game; I think we might even have been 4-1 up !

And we beat Man. Utd. 4-0 back in the day ? How nice if that could be repeated sometime...