Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

['Doc' Pace my hero]

You Daily Mail reader you......

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I think i would rather be associated with the pigs than the Daily Mail !!!

 

[Silent Blade]

Actually think it's John McAlle not Stewart Houston,he played a few games for us in the 1981/82 season.

Having looked at the photo again, I agree that it is probably McAlle

 

[XM657]

Like this?

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Specsavers down the road and while your at it get a colour test.

 

[ghandi]

Some good'uns in here
Apologies if posted previously

 

[Tom Bott]

I have shared beer with the photographer of the above in at least 2 of the pubs featured in the above.

Comment-for-no-reason- whatsoever.

 

[Silent Blade]

Len Badger (sitting on the ball looking at the camera) with the England u23s squad in mid 1960s

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Another one of Len Badger (probably had it before somewhere in the past 500+ pages )

 

[Silent Blade]

Another one of Len Badger (probably had it before somewhere in the past 500+ pages )
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His testimonial in March 1973

 

[XM657]

Len Badger (sitting on the ball looking at the camera) with the England u23s squad in mid 1960s

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Good photo, can see why Badger missed full cap, sat down and not paying attention. RSM Ramsey would have mentally noted that. Other players, is that Vic Mobley to our right of Ramsey, Martin Chivers far left tallest one and Gordon West far right looking at camera. Not a clue on others or ground there at.

 

[Silent Blade]

Good photo, can see why Badger missed full cap, sat down and not paying attention. RSM Ramsey would have mentally noted that. Other players, is that Vic Mobley to our right of Ramsey, Martin Chivers far left tallest one and Gordon West far right looking at camera. Not a clue on others or ground there at.

Agree with you. Think Alan Ball is number 8 and Bobby Tambling number 11

 

[grafikhaus]

Good photo, can see why Badger missed full cap, sat down and not paying attention. RSM Ramsey would have mentally noted that. Other players, is that Vic Mobley to our right of Ramsey, Martin Chivers far left tallest one and Gordon West far right looking at camera. Not a clue on others or ground there at.

I'm guessing Boothferry Park, Hull? Their 'kop' used to be the standing area below the seats.

 

[BerksBlade]

Another one of Len Badger (probably had it before somewhere in the past 500+ pages )
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A slightly wider lens and I would probably be in that photo

 

[Bladethebrian]

Literally round the corner from me.

Charnock Dale Rd for me - many an evening playing footy on the Rec

 

[I should coco]

Charnock Dale Rd for me - many an evening playing footy on the Rec

Born on Charnock but we moved before I had chance to dominate the Rec with my Pele-like silky skills*



* More towards the Chopper Harris end of the Pele spectrum, than the Rivelino end

 

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Not sure if it has appeared before, but this is the temporary stand being built for the 6th round Cup-tie v Wednesday in 1960. It must have felt very remote from the action (no bad thing in view of the result).

 

[GrayBlade]

 

[GrayBlade]

 

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[GrayBlade]

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

By way of encouragement for April 2019, a reminder from the old scrapbook of what promotion to the top tier felt like in April 1961, with a 3-1 victory over Derby confirming promotion (instead of Liverpool, no less). The crowd was only 21,773, and the kick-off was at 6.15 on a Wednesday. Anyone know why?

 

[Grappler]

Born on Charnock but we moved before I had chance to dominate the Rec with my Pele-like silky skills*



* More towards the Chopper Harris end of the Pele spectrum, than the Rivelino end

My second house was on Woodland Drive, just round the corner from the Rec.

Prior to that, my only association with Charnock estate was when a gang of lads from Gleadless Valley used to go over there, gang fighting.

 

[Silent Blade]

and the kick-off was at 6.15 on a Wednesday. Anyone know why?

In 1960, John Harris thought we would get bigger crowds if we kick off at 6pm or 6.15pm so that people coming home from work would go straight to the match rather than go home for tea and then switching the TV on and changing their mind about going to the match because they saw something they liked on TV. The experiment wasn't a success and I assume we went back to 7.30pm kick offs the following season or two.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

In 1960, John Harris thought we would get bigger crowds if we kick off at 6pm or 6.15pm so that people coming home from work would go straight to the match rather than go home for tea and then switching the TV on and changing their mind about going to the match because they saw something they liked on TV. The experiment wasn't a success and I assume we went back to 7.30pm kick offs the following season or two.

That appears to be a brilliant answer. My first thought was that perhaps John Harris wasn't such a great thinker after all, but now, of course, we have to put up with 12.30 and 5.30 kick-offs; in my view anything that gets between a Yorkshireman and his meal-times is a bad thing. So please don't mention 6.15 to Sky!
The crowd for the match v Derby was poor, given its importance. We played Ipswich on a Tuesday early in March, and got 35,000, presumably at 7.30. But it is probably not a fair comparison, as we had just got through to the Cup semi-final, and there will have no doubt been tokens given out that evening to enable people to buy a semi-final ticket.

 

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[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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The tram, bus and train geeks will be wetting themselves at the sight of this picture.

 

[Mad Mick]

Those videos are amazing. Would it be possible to put a link to them on our Park Hill Flats (Sheffield) Facebook site?

 

[BushBlade]

Those videos are amazing. Would it be possible to put a link to them on our Park Hill Flats (Sheffield) Facebook site?

This is the link to his twitter page

https://mobile.twitter.com/OldSheff...o/iframe/twitter.min.html#1113896619655745537

 

[Mad Mick]

Cheers BB

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

The top photo is one of my all-time favourites, which I am including as a self-indulgent treat to help with the stress of the current promotion push. Here is what the promised land of the top division used to look like. Chelsea at home, January 1962, under floodlights on a Saturday afternoon, drawing 1-1, and a centre comes in from the right. Pace is surrounded by 6 defenders, including 'Chopper' Harris, and also has the athletic Bonetti facing him in goal. Like Keith Edwards or Billy Sharp, he finds the vital yard of space, and plants the ball in the corner of the net. One of the reasons I love the grainy old picture is that it is taken from more or less the angle I was watching from, and no doubt without the picture, I would long since have forgotten the goal. It is the image of Pace that always comes first to my mind.
We went on to win 3-1, and finished 5th in the league. Nothing to fear next season, then. I won't mention the fact that we lost 6-1 at Stamford Bridge...

 

[bromtom]

Wilder looks spookily like Tom Holland (Spider-man) in this.

Wilder-man, Wilder-man, does whatever a Wilder can...