even Dai would not recognise this team Groves Keane Thomas Lucas Charles Williams Griffiths Jones Midwin Allchurch Beech
Musty, Lucas = Billy Lucas former Manager? Medwin - Terry Medwin (asst under Tosh)? Allchurch - must be Ivor and not Len?
So we have Ivor Allchurch, Terry Medwin, Cliff Jones, Harry Griffiths, Mel Charles, Billy Lucas - I have a photo of Ivor, Terry, Cliff, Harry and a couple of others I don't recognise taken in the changing room at the Vetch from around this time, and by that I mean mid-50s. I will try to post a copy of it to this thread early next week. BTW, I'm not that old.
Is the Williams in this team the Herbie Williams I remember from the 60s? A bit too early perhaps. I think I remember that he was one of the first footballers to wear contact lenses? very tall and thin - a sort of Welsh Crouch.
not Herbie Williams and not Cliff Jones however Ivor Allchurch, Billy Lucas, Harry Griffiths, Terry Medwin and Mel Charles are correct
correct taffvale it was cyril beech, one of the the two "foreigners" in the above team, born in Tamworth, joined the swans 3 seasons prior and was a brother to gilbert beech, a full back on the town staff
I was born in 53 so all the ones i know have been mentioned,but i have a feeling kean was an irish international we had a few of them in those days i remember my father talking about a swans game being cancelled because most of the team had been called up for international duty Against each other!! in a Wales Vs Ireland game
oh that leather ball that was lethal when wet and felt like a medicine ball when you tried to head it, and when those laces would sometimes come loose they were dangerous and could blind a player......remember them days lads....
I remember the size 3 ball when I was a young kid, the old leather laces style .... like kicking and heading a cannon ball. We had to put dubbing on the ball to try to keep the water out.
