excuse the invasion, but i have just found my 1958 diary which i kept a few bristol football results in rovers team,sampson,roost,bamford, nicholls,edwards, meyer,mcillwenny?,biggs,pitt,hale and hooper some scores, possibly in the cup gas 2 burnley 2 burnley 1 gas2 fulham 3 gas1 gas 4 leyton o city 3 gas 4 some other 1958 cup results sheff utd 1 wba 1 bolton 3 stoke 1 scunthope 0 liverpool 1 wolves 6 darlington 1 fulham 2 man u 2 blackburn 1 bolton 2 bolton 2 man utd 0 3.5.58 and this in spite of man utd losing half its side in the munich crash. they still got to wembley. sat 25/1/58 gas 2 burnley 2 city 2 notts c 1 15.2.58 city 3 gas 4 12.3.58 i watched city beat barnsley 5-0 at a/gate li do hope these titbits of 58 are of interest
AJ before my time afraid, but know my old man loved this team. I'm forever hearing how this team was better than today's!!!
it is funny how yesteryears teams appear to be better than todays. but i was priviledged to have watched the gas in their golden days and the city as they approached their great years. with a new stadium planned i hope it will not be long the gas regain their glory days. this season is proving to be of one of consolidation, 3 points at the gills? the shrews hit the buffers last week at the shots, but we have hopes against maccs.
Referring to post #1 above; the winning goal at Ashton Gate "scored" by Geoff Bradford should have been disallowed because he was about a yard and half offside. I know this definitely as from my viewpoint in the Boy's Enclosure in front of the "Cow Shed" stand, I was absolutely in line as the pass was made to him! And I told him so when he was a guest at The Gate on the day we officially opened the Atyeo stand. He just laughed and said he was too quick for mortals like me and linesmen to see where he started his run from. Seriously a great player who if it had not been for the two serious knee injuries, could have played more than just the once for England. I also remember with great affection, Harry Bamford who was tragically killed in a traffic collision. He did some coaching for members of the "Eagle" comic club in the year before his death and invited us all (about 10 of us) to see the Glos Cup Final at Eastville where he presented us all with complimentary tickets to watch the game. And what about the half time presents for the Rovers keeper, Howard Radford? Fans threw him oranges on his way to the dressing room. They'd be arrested nowadays. Then it was fun. Great days when most teams consisted of mostly local lads and fans stood together at all games with lots of laughs and huge amounts of banter.
Just another thought about the comment in #4. In the 50's and 60's, Rovers players Barrie Meyer, Ron Nicholls and later Harold Jarman all played professionally for Gloucestershire. City had Bobby Etheridge and David Smith also of Glos, while in 1955, when City won promotion, Arthur Milton played the last 14 games of the season before retiring from football to concentrate on playing for Glos and England. He had also played once for England football while he was an Arsenal player and I believe he is the last player to achieve this feat. His Arsenal team-mate Denis Compton also won caps at both cricket and football. With year round football and cricket, it's unlikely ever to happen again.
geoff bradford was only booked once in a long successful career, at home to the shrews. gawd they tinpots get everywhere.
It was interesting to listen to Alastair Hignell the other night at the GCCC Cricket Lovers evening. He said that cricket was definitely his first love, and playing rugby filled in the time between. It would have been interesting to know which of the two sports the Rovers and City players who combined football and cricket careers preferred.
