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Post by timbo on Aug 21, 2013 19:36:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 21:14:33 GMT
Look at that: over 9,000 for a match between Chester and Torquay. Then glance at the league table.
Love the pen picture of Alan Smith which describes Port Sunlight as a "Liverpool amateur club". I suspect the locals knew where it was and where it bleedin' wasn't. Liverpool? Not quite, unless it was the thing to be abusive towards Tranmere and their followers. Ah, come to think of it....
Mind you, it was a geographically-challenged world in those days. Frickley Colliery in the Cheshire League no less.
And it's just as well Merse doesn't contribute on here any longer (only joking Alan). He'd probably be telling us that he missed the supporters' bus home and ended up in the Flamingo Club having a continental supper with a Flamingo Girl.
As for (the new) Chester, I wonder how they'll do in the Conference this year? Halifax too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 21:44:55 GMT
Two sides near the top and a creditable 1-1 draw. Following on from their 5-2 thrashing at Luton, I did wonder whether Chester had their minds on the forthcoming big Cup tie against Newcastle. Of more overall significance, I suspect was the New Years Day game a fortnight before when Chester lost both their full backs (incidentally they were both called Jones) with broken legs. In his notes the manager says that Bryn and Ray Jones are 'as well as can be expected'. So just who was this 29 year old former underground surveyor that Chester had put in charge of their team ? Well given that Chester had had to seek re-election on 3 consecutive occasions then Peter Hauser did well to drag them up into mid table. An absolute goalfest from his team the following season must have given the Sealand Rd regulars value for money. The season of this game (1965-66) was also going fabulously well until the crucial injuries and the side eventually slipped back to finish 7th. But all good things come to an end, and when you lose lose at home to Workington things really are looking bleak. Hauser, presumably sacked for 'football reasons', went back to sunny South Africa and got on with the surveying. Peter Hauser |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 12:19:22 GMT
Well, well, Merse was at Chester that day in 1966. And he reports that there was snow on the ground and the conditions were challenging. A rare goal, of course, for Alan Smith playing just down the road from Port Sunlight. The days before, perhaps, somebody coined the ditty "Do be mistaken, do not be misled, we're not Scousers, we're from Birkenhead". That's telling you should there be any doubt.
Meanwhile it also appears that Merse, bandaged up from a football injury, managed to give a passable imitation of those two cruelly stricken Jones boys. No time, quite sensibly, for continental suppers in that condition.
And it always pays to take extra care on the city walls especially in difficult conditions. The first time I visited Chester a bloke told me he'd just seen Bobby Charlton walking the walls with his family. I careered off dodging the sightseers risking life and limb (and not just my own). But to no avail. There was no sign of the recent European Cup winner. Just one of my indignant parents waiting in the car park for the crawling, summer holiday drive back to our guest house in Colwyn Bay.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 15:53:52 GMT
So just who was this 29 year old former underground surveyor that Chester had put in charge of their team? Knew nothing of Peter Hauser. I'm just staggered I don't remember reading about him in Soccer Star. Reminded me initially of another South African-born player-manager: Percy Mackrill of Torquay United in the 1920s. Not sure if Percy was a surveyor and the fact that his career started at Bradford Park Avenue - as well as him dying in Halifax - suggests he was more Tyke than Boer. Hauser sounds a more authentic man of the veldt. |
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