bbcgull
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Post by bbcgull on Dec 20, 2008 0:29:03 GMT
I've had a request for our FLH against Leeds United. Now im sure some or most are aware we have never played them in the League but we we have played them in the Fa Cup See Below....
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FULL LEAGUE HISTORY
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ACCRINGTON STANLEY......P2 W0 D0 L2 F0 A3
ASTON VILLA..................P4 W2 D1 L1 F5 A7
BOLTON WANDERERS........P6 W3 D1 L2 F7 A6
LEEDS UNITED.................P0 W0 D0 L0 F0 A0
Now i wanted to post this because of our record against them in the FA Cup... We played them in the 3rd Round at Elland road on 8th Jan 1955 and got a 2-2 draw then bought them back to Plainmoor 4 days later...and beat them 4-0!!! This is classed as one of our greates wins. Now i am sure others have views or even memories maybe of these games. Programme? Pics? Barton? Jon?
Leeds who? We are unbeaten against them!!!!
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Dec 20, 2008 11:58:50 GMT
Now i wanted to post this because of our record against them in the FA Cup... We played them in the 3rd Round at Elland road on 8th Jan 1955 and got a 2-2 draw then bought them back to Plainmoor 4 days later...and beat them 4-0!!! This is classed as one of our greates wins. Now i am sure others have views or even memories maybe of these games. [glow=red,2,300]Programme? Pics? Barton? Jon?[/glow]Leeds who? We are unbeaten against them!!!! I can do better than that. I can point you at the video no less. You can download, free of charge, highlights the first match with Leeds in 1955 and also of the replay at Spurs in 1965 : www.britishpathe.com/product_display.php?searchword=TORQUAY+UNITED |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2008 23:02:47 GMT
Just the two best-known pictures of the Leeds game from me - taken from the Herald Express supplement of 2000 and from one of Mike Holgate's local history books. The first shows Don Mills - an ex-Leeds player by then - leading out the United side. The second shows Mills with the great John Charles, captain of Leeds prior to his move to Juventus. There are those who would claim these were greatest players in the history of their respective clubs. Note the match is being played in daylight. This would have been a Wednesday afternoon kick-off in the days before the recently-installed Plainmoor lights were used for competitive matches.   Torquay United 4 Leeds United 0 is one of my all-time favourite results, largely because I first learnt of it during the time Leeds were at their peak under Don Revie a dozen or so years later. Revie, of course, went off to manage England in 1974 to be replaced at Leeds by Brian Clough. When I was reading The Damned United by David Peace I remembered how I was looking forward to watching Clough's Leeds once I got the grades to go to university in Sheffield. No such luck! By the time term started Clough had gone, Jimmy Armfield had taken over and the programme for my first visit to Elland Road - for a game against Arsenal - was full of thinly-veiled attacks on Clough from Revie's old sidekick Syd Owen. If you don't remember those days you'd be right in thinking Leeds weren't everybody's cup of tea. Back then there was a grubby but wonderful little magazine called Foul which produced a number of decidedly dodgy covers. I hope this one doesn't offend those of a sensitive disposition but, as it's the pantomine season, I think it's worth reproducing:  |
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