Yellow is usually in the shirt pocket, and red in the arse pocket, or am I living in the past.
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostYellow is usually in the shirt pocket, and red in the arse pocket, or am I living in the past.
Speaking of whom (my brother, not Ken Aston)....
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Completing the Workington Quadrilogy (although there may be more tales in the box), a game I didn't go to but my brother did, as he was living back in Workington at the time and I have never lived there. This is billed as a Lancashire Football League XI, which may give the impression that it is a select XI from the Lancashire Football League, but no, it is an XI from Lancashire based (in old money) clubs from the Football League. The special guest on this occasion was George Best.
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Limerick v Torino in the Cup Winners Cup, 1971. Don't know why but I find the self-importance of the club secretary sticking his signature prominently on the cover quiet endearing. "This might be a glamour tie against a big Italian club but let's not forget who really does all the work around here!"
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My first visit to Bootham Crescent in February 1968 for a fourth division fixture. The York City goalkeeper is the same Mike Walker who was a 'top' manager for a period in the 1990s. Barry Jackson at centre half holds the record for the highest number of appearances for the club. The thing I remember from the game was that he was getting stick from a section of the home crowd behind the goal and at one point turned and shouted at them to "Fuck off!" I was there with my father and this was embarrassing, for both of us. Bruce Rioch was at the World Cup finals ten years later.
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From the Football League Review that came with the programme, a player's wife says she won't watch again. Anthea Stubbs later divorced and, as Anthea Redfern, appeared a few years later with Bruce Forsyth hosting The Generation Game. They subsequently married. Are Wills Whiffs still a thing?
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Valur v Cork City 2007 Intertoto Cup, and a fabulous picture from Valur's most famous day... a 0-0 draw with Eusebio's Benfica, whose previous European outing had been the 1968 final at Wembley. Benfica won the second leg 8-1
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When football was played on Christmas Day in England. I took on a friend's programme collection when he died four years ago to save it from going into a skip. I've been intending to find a good home for it since but haven't got round to it yet. Anyway, it looks like he saw a thriller 63 years ago.
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- Mar 2008
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- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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I'll take this opportunity to say (again) that zine archives and local museums are always good places to start when wanting to avoid binning your printed football materials. Of course, some places don't have the capacity to take on full collections and others get understandably picky depending on space. An archive isn't a dumping ground. But local angles can be good. Maybe a local library would like to have old programmes or zines related to a local club. Rare materials will be attractive for national archives, libraries, and maybe the national football museum.
My university had historically taken everything I offered up to the zine archive but in the past year they've become more focused on stuff that would be unique for researchers, so they just sent me back all of the Maximum Rockandroll and WSC issues I sent them over the past few years, but they've kept everything else.
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I'm putting this here by way of an enquiry which has come up elsewhere and I guess it's particularly aimed at Greenlander . I was trying to identify the players and in particular number 9. My first reaction was that it is Paul Mariner because it looks like him but this is from the first two weeks of 1973 and Wiki tells us he joined Argyle in 1973 so he would have needed to join very early in 1973 to have been in the photo. Jim Furnell's the 'keeper and Tony Waiters the manager I think.
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