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It was during the 1934/35 season, after we got relegated from the 1st division (it was our only 2nd season in the 2nd division after having stayed at the top division for 41 years).
Harry Gooney was supposed to have a bright future when he first joined us as a boy but he was mostly a reserve in the seasons he spent at BDTBL. Jimmy Holmes was quite a good defender. Harry Hooper played at RB for most of our games in the 1930s and captained our side in the 1936 FA Cup final. Mick McCarthy was our reserve keeper for a short time (I think Jack Smith, who was our first choice keeper from 1932 until the late 1940s, was injured at the time the filming took place). Billy Boyd scored a lot of goals for us in that year (I think he scored a hat trick against Wendy) but he was with us for little more than a year before moving to another club (he was a Scot that drank a lot according to an SUFC historian I was speaking to some years ago). Jock Dodds (who looks an impressive ball juggler in the film) was our star player for the 2nd half of the 1930s (even my wendy supporting uncle used to pretend he was Jock Dodds when playing football with his schoolmates). He went to Blackpool and played for Scotland in war time international matches (Stanley Matthews mentioned Jock quite a few times in his autobiography as he was quite close to him). Jock became an agent to some of the star players in English football that decided to play professional football in Colombia in the early 1950s (they all thought that they were going to get big wages). Jock died aged 91 or 92

see link below of Jock Dodds and his wife talking about players going to play football in Colombia

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=59630
 
Love the shorts , just below the knees

the half time fag

boots that look like hiking boots with studs

a medicine ball with laces in
 
It was during the 1934/35 season, after we got relegated from the 1st division (it was our only 2nd season in the 2nd division after having stayed at the top division for 41 years).
Harry Gooney was supposed to have a bright future when he first joined us as a boy but he was mostly a reserve in the seasons he spent at BDTBL. Jimmy Holmes was quite a good defender. Harry Hooper played at RB for most of our games in the 1930s and captained our side in the 1936 FA Cup final. Mick McCarthy was our reserve keeper for a short time (I think Jack Smith, who was our first choice keeper from 1932 until the late 1940s, was injured at the time the filming took place). Billy Boyd scored a lot of goals for us in that year (I think he scored a hat trick against Wendy) but he was with us for little more than a year before moving to another club (he was a Scot that drank a lot according to an SUFC historian I was speaking to some years ago). Jock Dodds (who looks an impressive ball juggler in the film) was our star player for the 2nd half of the 1930s (even my wendy supporting uncle used to pretend he was Jock Dodds when playing football with his schoolmates). He went to Blackpool and played for Scotland in war time international matches (Stanley Matthews mentioned Jock quite a few times in his autobiography as he was quite close to him). Jock became an agent to some of the star players in English football that decided to play professional football in Colombia in the early 1950s (they all thought that they were going to get big wages). Jock died aged 91 or 92

see link below of Jock Dodds and his wife talking about players going to play football in Colombia

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=59630
I remember Jack Smith who was a very good keeper when I first started at the lane in 1946, with Fred White the reserve keeper.
Compared to today the game was very simple in some ways then.
It was interesting to view the lane as it was, the only exception being the John Street stand which had been bombed near the Kop and was out of action for some time.
In those days players went to training on the bus, I well remember Joe Shaw, Jimmy Hagan and Alf Ringstead boarding the bus at Hollythorpe Rise in the 1950's.They got paid around £5 pw then.
No loud speaker system, team changes were carried round the ground on a board,similar to an estate agents board.Kick off used to vary subject to the time of year,in winter kicked off at 1.45.No floodlights and no night matches.
Long balls kicked out onto the cricket pitch area if we were winning close to match finish time.No subs either.
Could go on but the film did bring back numerous memories of being stood by the railings on the lane side behind the goal.
UTB
 

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