When you were born.

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
clockstander said:
That 5-0 defeat followed one of the most exciting games in Roker Parks long history, we were 2nd division, they were a team full of international talent, that went on to win the double, captained by the famous Danny Blanchflower. 60,000 packed the ground that afternoon, a sell out, hundreds had queued all night for tickets when they went on sale, including my long departed non de plume. The game itself was a tremendous contest, a real cup tie, Alan Brown had started to introduce his young guns into the first team and we gave them a right shock, sadly it ended 1-1,but against all the odds we almost won it. Danny Blanchflower went on record as saying it was the loudest crowd he had ever heard, describing the sound as frightening after we scored. Sadly as too often , it was a case of so close and yet so far. But no one who was there will ever forget it, its right up there in my top ten games at Roker Park.
Click to expand...

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

Love it.
 
commachio1 said:
Reet. He was good or ****e?
Click to expand...

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!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Bexinio, Billy Death, Vincemac and 3 others
The Relic said:
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!
Click to expand...

Brilliant. And yes you do need to say more. Im the little owl sat at the end of the branch. Listening
 
clockstander said:
That 5-0 defeat followed one of the most exciting games in Roker Parks long history, we were 2nd division, they were a team full of international talent, that went on to win the double, captained by the famous Danny Blanchflower. 60,000 packed the ground that afternoon, a sell out, hundreds had queued all night for tickets when they went on sale, including my long departed non de plume. The game itself was a tremendous contest, a real cup tie, Alan Brown had started to introduce his young guns into the first team and we gave them a right shock, sadly it ended 1-1,but against all the odds we almost won it. Danny Blanchflower went on record as saying it was the loudest crowd he had ever heard, describing the sound as frightening after we scored. Sadly as too often , it was a case of so close and yet so far. But no one who was there will ever forget it, its right up there in my top ten games at Roker Park.
Click to expand...

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!
 
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.
 
  • Like
Reactions: salad fingers
farnboromackem said:
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.
Click to expand...

Bloody London clubs. There seems to be a re-occuring theme with them
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back