timbo
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Post by timbo on Aug 21, 2013 19:26:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 20:48:57 GMT
So was Robert Batey, who flogged those night storage heaters, any relation to Derek Batey of Mr and Mrs fame?
Nice to see that Torquay United have always been noted for playing a very attractive brand of football. That was in 1964. Carlisle had probably barely heard of us before 1958. Unless they thought that anything associated with Torquay in those days must have been attractive. But did the locals need to head south for their holidays when they had Silloth?
That's a splendid-looking lorry in that Robson's Border Transport Ltd advert. I bet they were "Cock of the North" in the road haulage stakes and were determined to put that Eddie Stobart in his place: "he'll never make a go of it. Mark my words!"
The game at Bedford was the forthcoming FA Cup 4th Round tie. Carlisle's run that season (thanks to the revived Football Club History Database):
1 YORK CITY A 5-2
2 GATESHEAD H 4-3
3 QUEENS PARK RANGERS H 2-0
4 BEDFORD TOWN A 3-0
5 PRESTON NORTH END A 0-1
The next season Carlisle lost in the first round at Crook Town.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 21:22:04 GMT
Who cares what incidentals Lummaton Cross is rabbiting on about ... there's one big question this programme throws up, and that is what was the final score of Game H on the half time board  Luckily I have the answer; it was a crushing 3-0 win for the home side: Owls thrash Blades (January 1964)
Never an easy trip in any sense, going all the way up to Cumbra, and stopping the great Hugh McIlmoyle from scoring was a feat in itself. I imagine from the line-ups that day Hugh is currently the only one with a statue dedicated to him ? McIlmoyle statue - Brunton Park
'Even now, after all these years, admirers still gather wherever he goes. Shopping in Tesco, filling up his car with petrol or walking around Carlisle city centre often become lengthy procedures, such is his revered status. When he quit the game in 1975, he still had to work. Hugh was employed at a Walkers Crisps factory in the Midlands for 25 years ‘on logistics,’ he says, which actually means loading boxes onto wagons. Last year he returned to live permanently in Carlisle, a move that was always in the back of his mind. “I was just a footballer,” he says.“The people here have always been special to me. Everywhere I go people make a fuss of me. They ask me how I am and what I think of this or that. The people here are fantastic. “As far as I am concerned, I am back home now, back where I belong.” It was left to that fine publication The Whitehaven News to calculate that Hugh would have needed a playing career of 52 years in order to earn the weekly wage of Ruud van Nistelrooy. Whitehaven News |
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