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HodgyView attachment 136039for HBT, if he ain't seen this one before. All goalkeepers who can't catch a ball please look and learn.
Thanks. I have seen it before, but it always brings back the emotion of watching a great goalie. In defence of modern keepers, the kind of ball Hodgy is catching there weighed a ton, but almost always went in a straight line; the ball nowadays swerves all over the place.
 
Thanks. I have seen it before, but it always brings back the emotion of watching a great goalie. In defence of modern keepers, the kind of ball Hodgy is catching there weighed a ton, but almost always went in a straight line; the ball nowadays swerves all over the place.
Yep, a leather casey no. 5 from Suggs... aged 10 I could hardly get it to the goal line from the penalty spot, uphill in meersbrook park.
 
Yep, a leather casey no. 5 from Suggs... aged 10 I could hardly get it to the goal line from the penalty spot, uphill in meersbrook park.
One game up at Castle Dyke playing against a gale, I couldn’t get a goal kick out of the penalty area - the ref (teacher) invented a rule change years ahead of the times, that the ball didn’t have to leave the penalty area to be in play.
 
Thanks. I have seen it before, but it always brings back the emotion of watching a great goalie. In defence of modern keepers, the kind of ball Hodgy is catching there weighed a ton, but almost always went in a straight line; the ball nowadays swerves all over the place.
Just from a personal point, with two extra limbs to use which can retain possession better than any out field player my view is football is missing out on something and that's sad. Maybe the extra protection brought in for 'goalies' is a trade off where catching the ball isn't as essential as in days of old. Bring back the three step rule I say.
 
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No, it isnt. None of the batsmen got a score of 63 as shown on scoreboard

It is the Victory test in 1945, England vs Australia Services. Cyril Washbrook was the last man out for 63:

 
That's fantastic; it really feels like travelling in time looking at that scorecard as well as the photos.
What surprises me is that this game took place so close to the end of the war in Europe. My Dad hadn’t got home, he was still on a Royal Navy ship somewhere in Asia but somehow, there were Aussie cricketers over here who must have travelled here by boat.
 
What surprises me is that this game took place so close to the end of the war in Europe. My Dad hadn’t got home, he was still on a Royal Navy ship somewhere in Asia but somehow, there were Aussie cricketers over here who must have travelled here by boat.
It looks like they were Australians posted over here in the forces.
 
I was at that match, but have no recollection of it, other than a fuse blowing in my clapped out Mini. Among other things it powered the wipers. It pissed it down on the way back, so, innovating a bit, I used the tin foil that my cheese sarnies were wrapped in to replace the fuse. Amazingly it worked and we got from Cardiff to Sheffield like that.

I shudder at the thought of it now. Could have been a blazing ball of fire on the M5. The innocence of youth.

This is still the best thread on the forum. Endless interest in it.
 

It looks like they were Australians posted over here in the forces.
It was indeed the Aussies who were posted over here. The series was a success in terms of the crowds it pulled, so the Aussies were then sent on a tour of India after the England series. Seems harsh when they must have been desperate to get home to their families.
 

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