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Post by gullone on Mar 4, 2015 15:51:44 GMT
Here is some more misery to wallow in......Newport County 11 Torquay United 0  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 21:16:41 GMT
Poor old Newport. Winners of Div 3(S) in 1939; the outbreak of war led to the abandonment of their Div 2 programme after just three games. Life in Div 2 resumed in 1946/47. Relegated.
Newport were obviously proud of that championship. The programme was still showing the league table a year later.
I like the "winter advances" advert for the electricity board's electric fires. Perhaps June is notoriously cold in Newport.
Clark's Pies sound tasty. Maybe Chelston has sampled such delicacies on trips over the bridge.
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Post by Jon on Mar 4, 2015 23:52:09 GMT
In the middle of the Dunkirk evacuation, even the maddest of TUFC supporters must have had a little more on their minds than losing a football match. Leigh has posted up the previous meeting between these two teams at Plainmoor. torquayfansforum.co.uk/thread/9959/06-newport-south-western-divisionThe Torquay team listed in this programme is actually the one that played in that match eight weeks earlier. Only four - Crang, Hellier, Reg Clarke and Ebdon actually played in this one. In came: three TUFC pros - Knapman (a winger with just one league appearance playing out of position at full back), Kernick (not to make his league debut until 1946) and Brown; one guest - left half Alf Reed from Watford ; and three amateurs - Pugsley, Honeywill and Wright. Tom Pugsley (who was to be my wife's dad's plumber's mate) was also a winger playing out of position at full back. Honeywill played and scored for Swansea against us four days later after Swansea could only muster nine to travel. Ronnie Wright was actually the club's assistant secretary! You can see his name listed as such in the Plainmoor programme. Exeter City's Jack Angus failed to turn up to play at left back as selected so Pugsley dropped back and Wright played on the left-wing. Crang was injured during the game so Wright ended up as goalkeeper! |
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Post by Jon on Mar 4, 2015 23:56:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 6:59:42 GMT
In the middle of the Dunkirk evacuation, even the maddest of TUFC supporters must have had a little more on their minds than losing a football match. It was still a long time before Churchill would declare that "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Yet, for Torquay United, this pretty much was the end of their wartime endeavours before closing for the duration. I'm not sure but there may only have been one further game after this. |
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Post by Jon on Mar 5, 2015 22:53:17 GMT
Yet, for Torquay United, this pretty much was the end of their wartime endeavours before closing for the duration. I'm not sure but there may only have been one further game after this. Yes. A 7-2 home win over Swansea (nine Swansea amateurs + two Torquay amateurs) at Plainmoor on 5 June 1940 then a gap of just under five years and three months to 29 August 1945. A slightly shorter gap than the one from 25 April 1914 to 13 September 1919. |
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