timbo
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Post by timbo on Dec 21, 2009 21:34:50 GMT
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Dec 21, 2009 22:15:42 GMT
Many thanks Tim, I'm sure our history boys will pick over these programmes and come up with some interesting facts.
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Dec 21, 2009 23:18:33 GMT
Big-time scouts taking an interest in Gordon Pembery? He was off to first division Charlton Athletic within a couple of weeks. Playing Don Mills on the left wing? Sort it out Webber - you blithering idiot. I know he got us promoted that season, but that must have been inspite of him rather than because of him, mustn't it? We would have won the league if I'd been in charge.  |
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Dec 21, 2009 23:39:42 GMT
I see that the 1959 match ball was donated by the Chandlers of Marldon Road. Any relation to anyone we know?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2009 8:27:19 GMT
What of the Belgravia Club? Two minutes from the ground on St Marychurch Road. What sort of place was that? As for the Tudor Cafe I lunched there before a recent home match...
Gordon Pembery is a new name for me to consider (sorry Jon I'd clearly not read p33 of the CH). Fifty-odd games for us and then, as Jon shows, a move to Charlton. Only eighteen games for them over five years - but all in the top flight - before finishing at Swindon. How much did we get for him, then?
The supporters club had a pile of the "Footballers Who's Who" in 1951. I thought this might be one of Maurice Golesworthy's works but, when I checked my 1964 edition, that's the "Soccer Who's Who". Together with Roy Page's "Soccer Spotlight" it seems another example of how the word "soccer" was used more frequently - at least in print - in the 1950s and 1960s than now.
As for the 1959 match, a top notch referee in Jim Finney of Hereford who did the 1962 FA Cup final and one of the quarter-finals in the 1966 World Cup.
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