Football 20/21

[Stephen]

As a supporter who has suffered the annual trauma of seeing Ronnie Redford & Bobby George on the run up to every FA cup weekend of the last 40 years I apologise in advance for any Terriers fans who may stumble across this, but I thought it interesting. It’s from Derek Ufton’s obituary.


His dual career was hampered by recurrent shoulder dislocations, of which there were at least 20. In December 1957 he was captaining Charlton against Bill Shankly’s Huddersfield Town side when he put out his shoulder after 17 minutes and was taken to hospital.

He was about to be wheeled into the operating theatre when he heard that his side were 4-1 down; he tried to discharge himself in order to get back to The Valley, but was persuaded to stay.

When he came round he discovered that Huddersfield had scored twice more – but Charlton had outdone them in a historic 7-6 victory; as far as is known, no other professional team in football history has ever scored six goals and lost the game.

Thanks for that reminder Ranchi. I was watching a reserve game at the Leeds Road ground that day, and when I left the ground we were still winning 5-1, so you can imagine my shock when I watched the results on TV later. Charlton's winger Johnny Summers scored 5 goals and made the other 2, as they came from 5-1 down in the final 25 minutes.
A more memorable statistic is that we were the first team to record a hat trick of 1st division titles.

Wrong thread for football memorabilia chaps. Just saying

[towny44]

As a supporter who has suffered the annual trauma of seeing Ronnie Redford & Bobby George on the run up to every FA cup weekend of the last 40 years I apologise in advance for any Terriers fans who may stumble across this, but I thought it interesting. It’s from Derek Ufton’s obituary.


His dual career was hampered by recurrent shoulder dislocations, of which there were at least 20. In December 1957 he was captaining Charlton against Bill Shankly’s Huddersfield Town side when he put out his shoulder after 17 minutes and was taken to hospital.

He was about to be wheeled into the operating theatre when he heard that his side were 4-1 down; he tried to discharge himself in order to get back to The Valley, but was persuaded to stay.

When he came round he discovered that Huddersfield had scored twice more – but Charlton had outdone them in a historic 7-6 victory; as far as is known, no other professional team in football history has ever scored six goals and lost the game.

Thanks for that reminder Ranchi. I was watching a reserve game at the Leeds Road ground that day, and when I left the ground we were still winning 5-1, so you can imagine my shock when I watched the results on TV later. Charlton's winger Johnny Summers scored 5 goals and made the other 2, as they came from 5-1 down in the final 25 minutes.
A more memorable statistic is that we were the first team to record a hat trick of 1st division titles.

Wrong thread for football memorabilia chaps. Just saying

You're the one with influence over the mods, maybe you could have them move this to the footy thread.

[Manoverboard]

Posts #349 > 352 moved as requested from ' Moanin All ' so the titles will be wrong and " No, I'm not going to change them "

[towny44]

Moby since we are now on the footy thread can I please wish your lot the very best of good fortune today, please stuff those owls good and proper..

[Manoverboard]

Moby since we are now on the footy thread can I please wish your lot the very best of good fortune today, please stuff those owls good and proper..

Thank you kind Sir, we will go for 3 points for sure while hoping for a Terrier victory tomorrow

[Ranchi]

In my defence, I would have put the original message into football page if I had posted tomorrow but as it was from this morning’s newspaper I took the easy way out
I know Ian Botham played league football a few times (for Scunthorpe ?) but I doubt if we will see anyone emulate the Compton’s etc. & play cricket and football at a high level in the future.

[Manoverboard]

Frank, quite rightly, will be along anytime soon

[Mervyn and Trish]

Foxy will be along when he sobers up.

[towny44]

Can Leicester beat their FA Cup final hoodoo and win the cup at last, I think they can and will. As long as they let Chelsea have all the possession and then hit them on the counter attack with their pace, this is one final I am really looking forward to watching.

[Manoverboard]

but I do think that Foxy should apologise to Iniachio-ish ... just saying

[oldbluefox]

Cup Final? What Cup Final?

You'll never hear me say anything bad about Iheanacho. The way he passed it off the defender's legs before dispatching it into the net was pure magic. I think even he was surprised.

Should be a good final and difficult to predict the winner...... but after all this time hope we can break the hoodoo.

[Bensham33]

Well done Leicester. After those two appalling semi-finals, the final has got to be an improvement.

[screwy]

Jose’ sacked by Spuds,there’s a surprise.

[Bensham33]

Rumors say Jose walked as a result of the Europeans Super League nonsense. He is very much against it apparently. Perhaps he told the Spurs owners he wanted nothing to do with it. So they sacked him.

[Ray B]

The proposed super league is nothing more than greed by the big clubs who have it all and still want more. A closed shop, just like the old gentlemens clubs, any team who would want to join is black balled
If they do get their way then expell them from the FA and ban the players from the English game.
The move could free up the Premiership for a more exciting time with a chance for more teams to get a chance in other competitions dominated by the 'Big six'
Never mind about the most important people, the fans.

[Manoverboard]

To fund it SKY & Co will have to set up a new channel to view the games, there will be a premium price to pay of course but I deffo won't be subscribing

[barney]

This was inevitable the day that the FA allowed the premier league to form as a separate company from the EFL.
It’s just chickens coming home to roost.

Personally, and as a fan of a lower league club, I couldn’t give a toss either way.
Those clubs bleating about being left behind didn’t care too much about the left behind when they were filling their coffers with Sky money.

What goes round comes round.
The greedy PL, Fifa and Eufa have just been outgreeded.

[screwy]

As a lifelong Utd fan I want nothing to do with it,if they go ahead I’m finished with them. I understand it will be a 20 team league,playing midweek .! They want to remain in their domestic leagues/ competitions. Howlong before they’re complaining about fixture pileups and burnout.?

[Onelife]

I’m not that interested in what goes on in football but agree totally with the last four comments.
Smacks of greed and total disregard for the pockets of loyal fans.

[Quizzical Bob]

Cup Final? What Cup Final?

You'll never hear me say anything bad about Iheanacho. The way he passed it off the defender's legs before dispatching it into the net was pure magic. I think even he was surprised.

Should be a good final and difficult to predict the winner...... but after all this time hope we can break the hoodoo.

Fluke! You could play us a hundred times and not win more than 95 of them

[oldbluefox]

Cup Final? What Cup Final?

You'll never hear me say anything bad about Iheanacho. The way he passed it off the defender's legs before dispatching it into the net was pure magic. I think even he was surprised.

Should be a good final and difficult to predict the winner...... but after all this time hope we can break the hoodoo.

Fluke! You could play us a hundred times and not win more than 95 of them

Cheer up Quizzical. At least it wasn't 9-0.

[oldbluefox]

If they want to go let them go but there would be no way back unless they start at the bottom of the pile again.Personally I wouldn't see them as a great loss as it would certainly open up the leagues to the less fashionable clubs who don't feel they have a divine right to win every week.

[towny44]

There is no way they will willingly leave the PL, this is just a negotiating ploy to get a bigger and more permanent share of the Champions league pot. They presumably hope that the PL & UEFA will blink first and offer them something, and I guess they must have been given the nod by Sky, who presumably would like to become the only live footy channel once again.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Very exciting Grand Prix yesterday. Just saying......

[Ray B]

Very exciting Grand Prix yesterday. Just saying......

Well worth saying Merv. Bad luck for Russell coming together with Botas and before that trying to let Hammy pass, hammy hit a wet bit and off hammy went into the gravel
It was good to see Lando Norris on the podium after a comeback from Hammy who was not that far from Verstappin at the Finnish.
There was so much more going on in the lower order too.
Verstappin v Hamilton bodes well for future races