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Post by Jon on Nov 17, 2013 16:27:02 GMT
Nice ad from the Torquay Times 23 April 1926. "Stupendous attraction" - I could do without this new fangled marketing speak. If you want a ticket, ring Percy on 7381. How many people in South Devon had phones back in 1926? I doubt if Percy was overrun with calls. I also expect that anyone who did have a phone would be in a position to stump up the three bob for a reserved stand seat - three times as much as the plebs who would only have to find a shilling for ground admission. This game was, of course, part of the club's charm offensive to get into the Football League. I don't think many major soccer games have taken place at the Rec since - but I could be wrong.  |
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Post by gullone on Nov 17, 2013 20:29:33 GMT
Nice ad from the Torquay Times 23 April 1926. Great advert Jon ! Never been aware of this game before. Any chance of posting a match report ? |
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Post by stefano on Nov 17, 2013 21:07:12 GMT
Nice ad from the Torquay Times 23 April 1926. Great advert Jon ! Never been aware of this game before. Any chance of posting a match report ? I don't care about the match report, I just want to know how many we won by. Shouldn't have to wait long, Timbo will be next up posting the programme with the score as a prelude!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2013 12:24:05 GMT
The Leicester game was on the Saturday; the General Strike was due to start on the Monday. Perhaps the visitors made an immediate bolt for the train home at the final whistle.
And was the gate affected by the counter-attraction of the still-new Babbacombe Cliff Railway opened just a few weeks before?
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Post by Jon on Nov 18, 2013 23:57:57 GMT
WMN 1/5/26  WMN 3/5/26  Nice to see left winger Billy Bell singled out in the match report. He would go on to bigger and better things - signing for the mighty Torquay United four years later. What happened to Torquay's left winger? kjellhanssen.com/?s=pitherAnd finally a strike update for Barty. WMN 4/5/26  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2013 7:27:02 GMT
6,000 sounds a healthy crowd to me.
There's a reference in the report to Black, Leicester's full-back. I assume this is Adam Black who was to make a record number of league appearances for the club. Wiki tells us there is a "suite" named after him at Leicester's ground.
A Lochhead playing in attack for Leicester? There was one of those when I was a boy.
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Post by Jon on Nov 19, 2013 22:50:16 GMT
A Lochhead playing in attack for Leicester? There was one of those when I was a boy. I can't find anywhere that says that Arthur and Andy were related, but then again I can't find anywhere that says they weren't. You kind of feel they should have been. Arthur was 43 when Andy was born so I suppose he could have been his father or his grandfather. Arthur moved from Hearts to Manchester United in 1921 a swap deal that involved Scottish international Tom Miller - who of course would sign for Torquay United a year later. Arthur became manager of Leicester City and was succeeded in the job by Frank Womack - the man we had laid off four years earlier because we couldn't afford a manager, so we just carried on under coach Frank Brown. Womack went on to great success at Grimsby and Leicester. Andy of course played for Leicester in an FA Cup final under the managership of another ex-TUFC manager Frank O'Farrell. A year and a half later, he was bowing out of the FA cup at Plainmoor rather than Wembley as TUFC beat Villa 3-1. He also played against us at Villa Park both in our glorious 1-0 (Cave screamer) win and our slightly less glorious 5-1 defeat. |
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Post by Jon on May 4, 2016 23:06:35 GMT
It's a shame that Leicester missed the chance to clinch the title on the anniversary, but they ended up winning the League ninety years and one day after appearing at the Recreation Ground!
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Post by rjdgull on May 4, 2016 23:27:34 GMT
I wonder what the reaction from the away supporters would be if I popped back to 1926 and told them when they would eventually win the title!
Exodus from Torquay turned out to be somewhat prophetic, hopefully the rest of the squad Don't join him (if as I suspect he goes) in their own Exodus.
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