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Tory leadership contest?
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Tory leadership contest?
W'ats de story Mac?
Thanks for the info, extremely interesting.![]()
This image shows the aftermath of a boxing match between Dick Hyland and Ray Campbell in 1913
An image showing two bloodied boxers has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows fighters Andy Bowen and Jack Burke after participating in “the longest boxing fight in history” in 1893. The claim is false; the image in fact shows boxers Dick Hyland and Ray Campbell...factcheck.afp.com
Abbey lane I thinkAny one place where this is? My own thoughts are Walkley but really no idea. Thanks in advance for any help.View attachment 138956
Excellent spot, I'll go along with that, bit posh around there for a lad from Hollinsend.Abbey lane I think
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Ray Goodall was from DronfieldPlaying for England 1932 style, "bring your own sox lads".
Team V Wales at Wrexham result 0-0.View attachment 138928
Back Row-Stoker-Brum, Blenkinsop-SWFC, Higgs-Brum, Tate-Villa, Young-Hudders. Front Row-Crooks-Derby, Jack-Arsenal, Goodall capt-Hudders, Brown-Villa, Sandford-WBA, Cunliffe-Blackburn.
Thanks for the info, extremely interesting.
Don't see many sights like that these days. I can remember, possibly Terry Downs, in a bit of a bloodbath but cannot remember who he fought.
Also some one gave Freddie Mills a pasting around 1950, covered in his own blood he was, again cannot remember his opponent.
Took me a while to work out names to faces. Blenkinsop was the only one I knew visually and I got him wrong first time.Ray Goodall was from Dronfield
Yes, played for them between 1921 and 1937Took me a while to work out names to faces. Blenkinsop was the only one I knew visually and I got him wrong first time.
I saw Goodall was from Dronfield but I knew you'd know. Was he part of the Div.1 hat trick team?
ISJS can you remember listening to boxing on the BBC 'Steam' radio in the forties and early fifties? I have memories of listening to a Mills fight on the radio, must have been the Lesnovich one in London. I have better ones of the Turpin/Robinson fight when Randolf won the title and being told he had lost when I awoke after his loss in the USA.Joey Maxim .
A brutal fight in which , with one punch , he hit Mills so hard that he knocked out three of his teeth and left another embedded in his upper jaw .
Freddie’s other memorable fights were against against Gus Lesnovich when , apart from a relatively quiet period in the second one , they basically stood toe to toe and knocked the shit out of each other .
Proper boxing , that .![]()
ISJS can you remember listening to boxing on the BBC 'Steam' radio in the forties and early fifties? I have memories of listening to a Mills fight on the radio, must have been the Lesnovich one in London. I have better ones of the Turpin/Robinson fight when Randolf won the title and being told he had lost when I awoke after his loss in the USA.
Joey Maxim .
A brutal fight in which , with one punch , he hit Mills so hard that he knocked out three of his teeth and left another embedded in his upper jaw .
Freddie’s other memorable fights were against against Gus Lesnovich when , apart from a relatively quiet period in the second one , they basically stood toe to toe and knocked the shit out of each other .
Proper boxing , that .![]()
Alan Rudick, fought at lower weights I believe and didn't he win a Olympic gold?Before my time but I remember reading Freddies autobiography some years back and I thought maybe it was the Lesnevich fight, so I watched it on YouTube yesterday and yes, they weren't pulling their punches.
I grew up listening to boxing on the wireless with my dad and grandad. Alan Rudkin, Jack Bodell, Billy Walker, Brian London, Henry Cooper etc. There was something magic about huddling round the radio, playing cards and listening to the fights. So much better than the overhyped, fight once or twice a year bullshit that's become top level boxing now.
Alan Rudkin was a little feller but a big heart, like a lot of fighters then, take a lunch to land a punch.
Jack Bodell lost a toe mowing the lawn and he was knocking on a bit by then but I seem to remember that was the reason he retired from boxing. I know he had a fish and chips shop and I think Muhammad Ali paid a visit when he opened it. Brian London was very limited, a better fighter out of the ring than in it. He only died last year as well which is surprising with the amount of punishment he took.
Loved the old fighters, it was still a dirty game but I don't know, they were fighters more than celebrities then. I think that's what turns me off modern day sport in general, it's more about media presence than actual substance now.
I always thought Brian London’s best fight in the ring was in Porthcawl - after his contest against Dick Richardson was over .
His brother and his dad didn’t do too badly either !
Four of them are dead now. Only Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill left.
Here is a cast photo complete with the missing droid.Left to Right: Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2
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