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Post by aussie on Feb 8, 2009 15:26:05 GMT
Wasn`t it your birthday on Saturday Merse? I seem to remember you saying something about it co-inciding with the Barrow game. If it was then Happy Birthday to you!
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Post by capitalgull on Feb 8, 2009 15:40:23 GMT
Not his birthday Aussie, anniversary, 50 years since his first TUFC game. I sadly have few problems remembering his birthday after the wake we had on September 11 2001!
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Post by Dave on Feb 8, 2009 15:48:40 GMT
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Post by aussie on Feb 8, 2009 17:05:54 GMT
Oh his 50th anniversary, does that perhaps give rise to a new topic `The Anniversary`. Happy anniversary Merse! I knew there was something happening!
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Post by merse on Feb 8, 2009 18:24:50 GMT
 That's right, the fiftieth anniversary of my first Torquay United game. My late father always made me aware that the first time he took me to Plainmoor was on Feb 7, 1959 for the derby with Exeter City (3-4  ) Not quite as long ago as that marvelous cutting from Jon, but hey, more than half way back eh? Wouldn't it be great if someone trawled our conversations up in a century's time and I wonder where OUR club will be plying their trade then? It's a sobering thought that the gaiety and enthusiasm of 1912 had only two years to run and that by 1914 those young lads would have been thrown into Dante's inferno with the coming of the Great War.......................life would never be the same again, and for some it would soon end.
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Post by aussie on Feb 8, 2009 18:56:39 GMT
Point taken, thats pretty deep mate!
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Post by Jon on Feb 8, 2009 22:09:23 GMT
That's right, the fiftieth anniversary of my first Torquay United game. My late father always made me aware that the first time he took me to Plainmoor was on Feb 7, 1959 for the derby with Exeter City (3-4 ) Not quite as long ago as that marvelous cutting from Jon, but hey, more than half way back eh? Wouldn't it be great if someone trawled our conversations up in a century's time and I wonder where OUR club will be plying their trade then? It's a sobering thought that the gaiety and enthusiasm of 1912 had only two years to run and that by 1914 those young lads would have been thrown into Dante's inferno with the coming of the Great War.......................life would never be the same again, and for some it would soon end. It is staggering when you realise that you are getting to the age when you can actually remember a fair chunk of our club's history. TUFC has played (so far) 73 seasons in the Football League, and I watched us in just over half of them! Too true about the horror that awaited our 1912 day trippers. The piece and the match report mention the refrain "Are We Downhearted? - No!" This seems a jolly little catchphrase of the day - but a couple of years later it was a Great War morale booster, and whereas you could admit to being downhearted about losing the Devon Cup Final to Argyle, you wouldn't have been allowed to say that you were downhearted at seeing all your friends massacred. |
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