When you were born.

Thats a few of your posts on this thread that are top draw.

Love it.

 

Yeh agree
We have some great knowlagable posters

 

Brilliant big fella. I know im a gobby twat, but i love this stuff
Always learning.

 

Thanks lads your comments are much appreciated.

 

Time and place for everything
Despite what some may think. I love the old stuff. Just like wor Billy (hes pretty similar) yet can sit and read about the old stuff for ages.

Oh we are after Mr Frenchie. Not interested

Shacks/Clough destroyed some team..interested

 

Bill Murray built the Bank of England Team almost from scratch - do I need to say more? He started straight after the war by signing a good left back called Arthur Hudgell from one of the London clubs (Brentford maybe?). On and on, he went - Willie Watson (1947) Len Shackleton (1948) Ivor Broadis (1949) Trevor Ford and Jack Hedley (1950). Billy Bingham and Billy Elliot (around that time) George Aitken (1951) Ray Daniel and Jimmy Cowan (1952). On and on - every one of them an international - Jeeeesusss! It was, without doubt, the most outrageously talented side in England - but never quite the best team. And that was the problem. Packed houses everywhere they went - Jimmy Greaves once said if Sunderland were at any ground in London, he was there. Shackleton was Greavsie's boyhood hero. That team was probably the closest soccer ever came to the Harlem Globetrotters. But melding such an array of talent into one of English football's greatest-ever teams was always just beyond our reach. Nonetheless. Bill Murray gave us one of our greatest ever periods.

Incidentally, the man behind the money was Chairman, Ted (?) Ditchburn, one of whose descendants sometimes turns up on this board - jdsafc. Sadly, Ditchburn, Murray and several others were banned for life in the illegal payments scandal of 1957. And then the s*it started!

 

Brilliant. And yes you do need to say more. Im the little owl sat at the end of the branch. Listening

 

The draw and the manner of it, generated so much hope and excitement that the subsequent defeat, I've been told, felt like 10 defeats. Certainly affected my mam so much that she couldn't let spurs name be mentioned ever again without expressing her dislike.
Hate spurs, me.

 

March 20th 1946, lost to Blackburn 2-1 on 23rd. The middle game of 3 away games, we lost all three. Even lost to Bradford Park Avenue away on 13th April. Not a good away record that season.........sounds a bit familiar!

 

A belated Happy 70th mate

 

Born Sunday 17 Nov 1968

Game on the. 16 Nov was against the Spuds at Sh*te Hart Lane.....lost 5-1

 

I can vouch, he looks bloody well for 70.

 

Sshhhh. Dont mention 5-1. Ever.

 

If you were 8 when Red Red Wine was released, the UB40 now.

 

Or 56.

I just cheated as i always thought it was a ub40 original. But no. Im suprised

 

Cracking thread. It would appear that I was born on a Saturday but we never had a game. Previous game we were beaten by Spurs at home 1-0. The following game we were beaten by Arsenal, at their place, 2-0.

 

Bloody London clubs. There seems to be a re-occuring theme with them

 

I've just done some research. There was a footy programme on that day (10 December 1966 ). I wonder why we never played.

 

Probably the weather. Games seemed to postponed all the time when I was a kid.

 

Cant find out. But i did notice the game before the Spurs match
We lost to Man U.











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