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Post by timbo on Sept 10, 2013 16:49:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2013 23:11:37 GMT
An unfamiliar name to me on that list of Torquay United players in that 1964 Millwall programme: D.Dusting signed as a part-time professional in 1963. What do we know of him?
A game played on a Monday night; one of several at the Den that season.
Roy Dwight, a relative of Elton John, leading the Millwall attack. He only played a handful of games for them and later, according to Wiki anyway, ended up in greyhound stadium management at Catford.
And, if you’re ever in difficulty in SE14, just remember the “bow of benevolence; arrow of assistance” that can be found in New Cross. Very handy for covering the cost of surgical appliances and dentures after that little mishap.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 6:46:14 GMT
Dickie Dusting was used in the sweeper position, I expect.
A couple of international names leap off the page. Alex Stepney is one and the other Hugh Curran. Hughie had scored a Mulleresque 34 goals in 32 games for Corby, a town full of Scots, the previous season after moving from Third Lanark.
He went on to play 5 times for Scotland while scoring lots of goals for Norwich and Wolves.
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Post by phipsy on Sept 11, 2013 8:15:26 GMT
An unfamiliar name to me on that list of Torquay United players in that 1964 Millwall programme: D.Dusting signed as a part-time professional in 1963. What do we know of him?
A game played on a Monday night; one of several at the Den that season.
Roy Dwight, a relative of Elton John, leading the Millwall attack. He only played a handful of games for them and later, according to Wiki anyway, ended up in greyhound stadium management at Catford.
And, if you’re ever in difficulty in SE14, just remember the “bow of benevolence; arrow of assistance” that can be found in New Cross. Very handy for covering the cost of surgical appliances and dentures after that little mishap.
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Post by phipsy on Sept 11, 2013 8:18:31 GMT
I remember this game in 64. Robin Stubbs scored a couple of crackers. Ev.eryone was in awe of him including the mill wall fans. As for David dusting, I remember the name but can not recall seeing him play.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 9:31:52 GMT
Dickie Dusting was used in the sweeper position, I expect. A couple of international names leap off the page. Alex Stepney is one and the other Hugh Curran. Hughie had scored a Mulleresque 34 goals in 32 games for Corby, a town full of Scots, the previous season after moving from Third Lanark. He went on to play 5 times for Scotland while scoring lots of goals for Norwich and Wolves. Hughie Curran may only have played five times for Scotland but Alex Stepney, remarkably when you look back, was destined to appear for England on just one occasion. Forty-five years later, for a variety of reasons, you'd imagine each would win rather more caps if they were playing today. Felix mentions the migration of Scots to work in the steel works in Corby and Curran was with the local club when they were trying to make a go of growing with the town. Indeed a few years after Curran's departure Corby brought down the former Rangers player Eric Caldow to be their manager. I've done a search for "Dusting Torquay United" and, in the nature of these things, it came up with a bloke called Dustin who works with somebody who used to play for Torquay United. The former player in question is Gary Wright, executive director of Savannah United in the USA. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 10:16:15 GMT
There's a reference to David Dusting in one of Timbo's programmes: home to Tranmere Rovers 24 August 1963.
Dusting was 18-years-old; signed from Plym View in the Plymouth and District League. Had played for Plymouth schools and the national youth clubs team (could he have been a dockyard apprentice given that association with youth club football? That might account for the part-time arrangement).
Arrived at the same time as Ben Murphy who would have been two or three years younger and was regarded as an apprentice.
Later programmes show Dusting as a regular in our Western League team. 192.com records a David Dusting living in the Plymstock/Plympton area in recent years. He'd be sixty-eight now and you can only surmise that he may have been a regular on the South Western League circuit after leaving Plainmoor.
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