Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2009 10:03:59 GMT
Shrewsbury are our next opponents and I asked Timbo yesterday what he had in mind to mark next Saturday's game. Well, when I was searching for the World Cup 1966 stuff last night, I came across a small pile of collected (rather than attended) 1960s aways that I've somehow kept. In amongst these was a programme for our cup tie at Shrewsbury in November 1965.
The front page is wonderfully quaint by modern standards, with the opening paragraphs of the editor's notes, line drawings of Gay Meadow and an advert for the local brew. Floreat Salopia - and mention of the Poppy Day collection - add a certain timelessness:
Turn inside and there's a sudden shock of modernity with the use of the British Rail logo. That can't be right surely? But, yes, it's brand new having only being introduced a few months earlier. No doubt Mr A.E.T. Griffiths (less chance of seeing his forename in print in those days) - extension 53 - has probably moved on by now:
And lastly the team sheet - more Marches ale to the forefront - with a typo in the Torquay United line-up (Gerry King, rather than George, and he was a Welsh borders boy as well) and some well-known names in the home line-up: Peter Broadbent (from the Kent coalfield) ex-Wolves and England; Ted Hemsley, the Worcestershire cricketer and Sheffield United player; Frank Clarke, brother of Allan and Derek:
We lost that game, the first FA Cup tie since the Spurs replay. And, if you're being honest, it wasn't a great time for FA Cup exploits. For once we certainly did concentrate on the league:
1964-65
3r TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR A 1-5
1965-66
1 SHREWSBURY TOWN A 1-2
1966-67
1 ALDERSHOT A 1-2
1967-68
1 COLCHESTER UNITED H 1-1
1r COLCHESTER UNITED A 1-2
1968-69
1 HEREFORD UNITED A 0-0
1r HEREFORD UNITED H 4-2
2 READING A 0-0
2r READING H 1-2
1969-70
1 TAMWORTH A 1-2
www.fchd.info/TORQUAYU.HTM
Here is the rest of the programme.
The front page is wonderfully quaint by modern standards, with the opening paragraphs of the editor's notes, line drawings of Gay Meadow and an advert for the local brew. Floreat Salopia - and mention of the Poppy Day collection - add a certain timelessness:
Turn inside and there's a sudden shock of modernity with the use of the British Rail logo. That can't be right surely? But, yes, it's brand new having only being introduced a few months earlier. No doubt Mr A.E.T. Griffiths (less chance of seeing his forename in print in those days) - extension 53 - has probably moved on by now:
And lastly the team sheet - more Marches ale to the forefront - with a typo in the Torquay United line-up (Gerry King, rather than George, and he was a Welsh borders boy as well) and some well-known names in the home line-up: Peter Broadbent (from the Kent coalfield) ex-Wolves and England; Ted Hemsley, the Worcestershire cricketer and Sheffield United player; Frank Clarke, brother of Allan and Derek:
We lost that game, the first FA Cup tie since the Spurs replay. And, if you're being honest, it wasn't a great time for FA Cup exploits. For once we certainly did concentrate on the league:
1964-65
3r TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR A 1-5
1965-66
1 SHREWSBURY TOWN A 1-2
1966-67
1 ALDERSHOT A 1-2
1967-68
1 COLCHESTER UNITED H 1-1
1r COLCHESTER UNITED A 1-2
1968-69
1 HEREFORD UNITED A 0-0
1r HEREFORD UNITED H 4-2
2 READING A 0-0
2r READING H 1-2
1969-70
1 TAMWORTH A 1-2
www.fchd.info/TORQUAYU.HTM
Here is the rest of the programme.
This of course was the game that ended Terry Adlington's career as a goalkeeper.....................and I was there to witness it and can recall the incident as if it were yesterday.
