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THE DAY MOSSLEY WENT TO WEMBLEY

STUART HOWARD-COFIELD remembers when the non-league pride of the north took over the famous old Twin Towers for the FA Trophy final against Dagenham

There is a wonderfully old-fashioned documentary that can be found on the football treasure-trove known as YouTube, that shows what looks like a near-empty Wembley stadium hosting the FA Trophy final in 1980.
So dwarfed is the crowd by the giant old stadium, it is hard to believe from the evidence of Mossley Goes to Wembley that on May 17 that year, practically the entire population of a Pennine mill-town had descended upon the capital to...

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