If you've read Jon Smith's recent excellent The Breakdown , you'll know that Colchester will be playing Norwich again following the latter's promotion. The two clubs go back a long way as letters from the Stash In The Attic archives confirm …

We’re going back more than 60 years to the 1958-59 season when the great John Motum was Hon Sec. Most communication then was in the form of letters which, for our younger readers, involved using paper, a ‘typewriter’ and a postal service that actually worked.

Here’s the correspondence concerning the appropriation of some ‘very nice horns’ by the Colchester away team, the Ravens. It also looks like the Norwich coach got stuck in our car park which will come as no surprise to anyone who played at Mile End ground. All good fun!