Let's have a bit of nostalgia...

By Robert Davies

Robert Davies, a 12-year-old Wrexham fanatic, penned a series of vivid match reports in the early 1950s. The superb and evocative pieces are serialised in Red Passion…

Who remembers the ‘Boys Pen’ in which some of us were huddled together in the 1950s?

Each time the turnstile clicked another nine old pence of pocket money had been donated to Third Division (North) Wrexham.

It was a good view to the right of the goal at the Mold Road end. There was no danger of girls joining us!

No doubt the admission charge was raised for international matches when, before the days of stricter security, we were packed into every nook and cranny like sardines. Such was the excitement on these occasions that many of us would arrive two hours before kick-off.

And on one April evening we saw John Charles, the Allchurch brothers, Trevor Ford and other Welsh stars in action against Northern Ireland.

Those were the days – when the Racecourse took on the atmosphere of a miniature Wembley.