The General Football Thread

More likely to use it to secure the clubs future the next 5/10 years - can't help but love the FA cup

 

0-0 doesn't do that half justice. Decent game, could easily be 2-2.

 

Boom

 

Lol

 

I'm confused , do you have some kind of allegiance to celtic or something.

 

Trossard is having a competition for how many times he can give the ball away in ET.

I would say that he's been awful, but I thought March had been too until he stuck one in the corner...

 

Well that shootout was fun.

 

I'm not surprised you are so confused. It must have been all that home brewed ale you have been drinking!

 

What the hell are you going on about.

 

Had a bit of random FA Cup family trivia emerge this weekend.

I discovered I have a Grand Uncle who played for Bristol City in an FA Cup Final in 1909 (an outside left called Frank Hilton), not what I expected when I signed up for Ancestry. My Grandad (his nephew) is still alive and very interested in football yet somehow never mentioned this .

I'm more concerned about why this ability disappeared from the gene pool.

 

Let's just rest it SS. I was countering your humour, which like the beer fell flat! Enjoy your day.

 

Jesus christ. How embarrassing. We are well rid of this twat.

 

Wishing him a speedy recovery

 

Turning into a good old fashioned quagmire at Stockport.

 

I did a lot of research on my family tree and have managed to get back to the 1620s. Although not in a direct line, I managed to discover that there were two Thumwoods who played cricket for "The Players" in a number of matches against The Gentlemen between 1816-21. I was not aware of this fixture so was surprised to learn that it was a staple of English cricket until the 1960s by which time it had become a total anachronism. At least one of these matches was played at the current Lord's ground. Back in the 1800s, the "Players" were effectively the first cricket professionals and were people so renowned for their ability that they were invited to play the game regularly - even if, in my family's instance, they were farm labourers from Hartley Wintney.

I do not have any professional footballers in my family although my maternal grandfather played amateur football for teams like North Warnborough throughout the 20s and 30s. I did try to find out more about this but when I asked the Hampshire FA for assistance, they had no information in their archives to assist. It is a shame that the amateur game appears to have been totally neglected by archivists as I would have liked to have found out more. I have seen team photos with my grandfather featured but am sceptical if village teams retain any form of records of past players. I am not even aware if there has ever been any detailed research or publications about football at this level although I do have one of the Hampshire Archive series of publications about the origins of football in the county which is quite detailed. (There are others in the series I have read which are interesting too including ones about Henri de Blois, the architect Owen-Carter and the Swing Riots in Hampshire in the early 1800s - especially amusing to read because some of the more "up market" villages around the Test Valley were then hot beds of sedition and revolutionary thought stoked by a radical character who lived in Bullington.)

 

Does it include a compilation of his 12 mins of Fulham appearances since joining?

 

Ask @fatletiss if he can help, he probably played against your grandfather

 

I didn’t break through to after the First World War, so I’m out this time