The men that won us the last FA Cup

[Silent Blade]

 

[Tyler Durden]

I hear we're giving Billy Gillespie a two year extension on his contract.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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Brilliant pictures. Where is the top one from? Was it in a matchday programme?

 

[Cheets]

In those days us winning the FA Cup was a semi-regular event. If only they knew we wouldn't win the FA Cup or any other major honour* for at least another 93 years.

*Obvs apart from the 1988 Yorkshire & Humberside Cup.

 

[Silent Blade]

Brilliant pictures. Where is the top one from? Was it in a matchday programme?

From 50 seasons in the 1st division souvenir programme published during the 1967-68 season. Am trying to work out when was the reunion. David Mercer was the first to pass away aged 57 in 1950, then it was Harold Pantling in 1952 (aged 61) and Seth King in 1958 (aged 61)

 

[Cheets]

From 50 seasons in the 1st division souvenir programme published during the 1967-68 season. Am trying to work out when was the reunion. David Mercer was the first to pass away aged 57 in 1950, then it was Harold Pantling in 1952 (aged 61) and Seth King in 1958 (aged 61)

Crikey - did they all pass away from left to right on the photo like an Agatha Christie plot?

 

[Silent Blade]

Crikey - did they all pass away from left to right on the photo like an Agatha Christie plot?

Ha Ha. Will find out the rest. I know that Billy Gillespie passed away in 1981

 

[Silent Blade]

Year they passed away...Sutcliffe (1964), Cook (1974), Milton (1984), Pantling (1952), King (1958), Green (1980), Mercer (1950), Boyle (1972) , Johnson (1981), Gillespie (1981), Tunstall (1971) and finally the player who was the surprise omission , Sampy (1978)

 

[Cheets]

Year they passed away...Sutcliffe (1964), Cook (1974), Milton (1984), Pantling (1952), King (1958), Green (1980), Mercer (1950), Boyle (1972) , Johnson (1981), Gillespie (1981), Tunstall (1971) and finally the player who was the surprise omission , Sampy (1978)

So Milton was the last of the gang to die. Funny how quite a few died in the 1950s but only one died in the 1960s.

 

[JohnDenver]

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The fella Green looked like he could still be playing forty years on.

 

[Newbury Blade]

Bill Cook (right-back) had also played in the previous FA Cup winning team, 10 years earlier in 1915.

 

[oldblade]

Ha Ha. Will find out the rest. I know that Billy Gillespie passed away in 1981

Passed away during the close season of the lowest ever point in our history.

 

[Silent Blade]

Bill Cook (right-back) had also played in the previous FA Cup winning team, 10 years earlier in 1915.

He was still living in Hebburn when playing for us and after his retirement from playing, he and his family moved to Sheffield! Think he owned a shop in Abbeydale Road

 

[super_pig]

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my great grandfather was there.. he was proper ‘blades mad’

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Great men,great team,wish they were still around today,so they could do a walk round the pitch as we showed them our appreciation for what they achieved

Thanks boys

 

[Silent Blade]

Got info from John Garrett..The reunion took place at the Royal Victoria Hotel the night before the game v Hull City on April 29th 1950- the nearest home game to the actual anniversary. Mercer died in Torquay June of that year.We beat Hull 5-0 at the game they attended and the team were taken out on the pitch at half time.

 

[drblade]

Great photo (the reunion), thanks for that.

Nice to see a later photo of the great Harry Johnson. Amazing to think that after his 201 goals in 313 appearances for us, he managed another 104 goals in 163 appearances for Mansfield! Incredible record.

Wonder why we let him go? Probably sold him for peanuts on transfer deadline day...

 

[bladesmanluke]

Legends, the lot of them. We don’t do enough to recognise the achievements of our pre war history and it’s a shame. They’re of course long gone, but what they did for the club should never be forgotten.

 

[Rawnblade]

Got info from John Garrett..The reunion took place at the Royal Victoria Hotel the night before the game v Hull City on April 29th 1950- the nearest home game to the actual anniversary. Mercer died in Torquay June of that year.We beat Hull 5-0 at the game they attended and the team were taken out on the pitch at half time.

This is great, wasn't aware of it. Great photo, too. This is also the last home game prior to my entrance into the world, just as Mr Mercer bowed out.

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[Silent Blade]

The goal

 

[Tunstall Fred]

The goal

Voted best ever goal scored at the Old Wembley

 

[JohnStreet]

Voted best ever goal scored at the Old Wembley

Apart from Alan Cork’s!

Loudest cheer I ever heard that was.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Apart from Alan Cork’s!

That was voted runner up

 

[Worksop II]

ever again ?

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Crikey - did they all pass away from left to right on the photo like an Agatha Christie plot?

I think so. That’s why it’s always best to be pictured front row far right, unless you play for an Arabic team.

 

[SB_90]

With the 4th qualifying round of the fa cup draw today. Chesterfield getting afc flyde away. Found out a interesting fact that the last time Chesterfield failed to make the 1st round proper. Was that season 1924/25 & we went on to win our 4th & final cup

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

With the 4th qualifying round of the fa cup draw today. Chesterfield getting afc flyde away. Found out a interesting fact that the last time Chesterfield failed to make the 1st round proper. Was that season 1924/25 & we went on to win our 4th & final cup so far

There you go fixed it for you

So we just need Chessie to lose at Fylde and it's time to give the old suit the once over

 

[super_pig]

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love those shirts with the stripes 'through' the collar. cool. adidas? make it so..

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Just fantastic, my grandad would have been under one of those flat caps. He died when I was too young to speak to him of those days but I’m proud to say that one of my family has seen United win the cup.