March 7, 2021, marks a year since Hartlepool United last played a home game in front of spectators. With pandemic restrictions due to ease from March 8, we thought we would whet your appetite for an eventual return to the terraces by paying this photographic tribute to the club’s fan-tastic support.
1. Derby date
Hartlepool United fans queue outside Victoria Park for tickets for the club's pilgrimage up the A19 to face Sunderland in the FA Cup in 2004. Photo: FLR
2. Tripping the Light fan-tastic
Were you among the estimated 10,000 supporters who watched the narrow 1-0 defeat at the Stadium of Light? Photo: FLR
3. Blue and white arm-y
Arms raised in unison at Brentford in 2005. Photo: TC
4. Blue is the colour
Around 17,000 Poolies cheered the team on at the 2005 play-off final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium against Sheffield Wednesday. Photo: Frank Reid