About this match programme
By Richard Snowball Coming into their match at Aldershot on March 5, 1987, York City had not won an away match since early the previous season on September 13, 1986, when they won 3-2 at Port Vale, a total of 38 matches and managing only to draw six of those. They won the game 2-1 with goals from Ian Helliwell and Derek Hood. They went on and won three out of their five next away matches before the end of the season. It had been a terrible season with Bobby Saxton in charge, and statistically it was the worst since becoming a Football League club in 1929. They had fewest wins (8), and the most defeats (29) and accumulated only 33 points, but amazingly they did not finish bottom of the League with Doncaster Rovers having an identical record but an inferior goal difference. They were relegated back into Division Four. After the departure of Keith Walwyn, who went to Blackpool at the end of the previous season for £35,000, after scoring 140 goals in 291 games, York found goals hard to come by and Dale Banton finished top goal scorer with 16 of the 48 they managed to score in the League. Acknowledgement This facsimile of the match programme was created by the publisher of There’s Only One Arthur Bottom, the daily email newsletter for fans of York City FC, and TOOAB contributors Richard Snowball, Terry Espiner and Paul Bowser. www.tooab.com