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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2008 20:25:31 GMT
Here are the programmes from two of the biggest FA Cup upsets - from the receiving end - in our history. In both cases very good Torquay United teams were defeated by non-league clubs. New Brighton 1956/57Torquay's reward for beating Argyle in the 2nd round was a trip to New Brighton (near Birkenhead), a former Football League club then playing in the Lancashire Combination, one of the stronger leagues of the time. New Brighton - one for you bbcgull - played at the Tower Grounds, a sort of seaside fun park that once boasted a 567 feet tower in the fashion of Blackpool. Torquay were beaten 2-1, in front of 16,000, which must have been a major shock given we finished second in Div 3(S) that season.   Tamworth 1969/70 A first round exit to a team from the West Midland League. Another shock as Torquay were a strong 3rd Division side. I was at Exeter that day - my father, a lapsed Fulham supporter, wanting one last look at the great Johnny Haynes. As news arrived that Torquay were winning 1-0 at half-time, a gloomy 13-year-old correctly predicted a final 2-1 scoreline in Tamworth's favour.   |
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Post by merse on Nov 10, 2008 20:49:53 GMT
 I went to that disaster at Tamworth. Anyone moaning about Evesham would have had apoplexy that day................ Boy did they batter us, Cecil Smyth (Broken cheek bone) and John Rudge (broken nose) were first half casualties and their front pairing of Hope and Jessop still give me nightmares to this day of them tearing down the hill towards us. Horrible, snowy frosty day; bumpy, sloping pitch and noisy partisan crowd two inches from the touchline. We certainly went likes lambs to the slaughter at the Lamb Ground! Yes, we certainly were KNOCKED out of the cup that day - in more senses than one! Interestingly, the Morrows at Tamworth were the same family as the guy who managed the England Schools team in the Wembley programme!
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Post by bbcgull on Nov 10, 2008 23:29:41 GMT
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Post by escortmad79 on Sept 21, 2010 13:55:11 GMT
Hinckley United!!
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Post by johnlovis on Sept 23, 2010 10:39:30 GMT
I was chatting to Jon last evening about the New Brighton game and I am 99% sure that there was second half commentary on this game on the old Light Programme.
I seem to recall that transmission started just before the interval and as it started New Brighton equalised.
I do not know why national radio would have picked this game but I suppose that as we were top of the Yhird South at the time and they had achieved two away wins against League opposition to reach this stage it might have caught the media's attention.
New Brighton's reward for beating us was a trip to Burnley where they were beaten 9-0!
This reverse sums up our apalling away form in a season where we were unbeaten at Plainmoor,dropping only 4 points. Had we just an average away record we would have walked the league and Alf Ramsey might never have led our country to it's finest footballing hour.
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Post by Jon on Sept 23, 2010 21:12:25 GMT
about the New Brighton game and I am 99% sure that there was second half commentary on this game on the old Light Programme. I seem to recall that transmission started just before the interval and as it started New Brighton equalised. I do not know why national radio would have picked this game Here are the BBC listings for that day. 2.15 kick-off at New Brighton, so I suppose a three o'clock transmission might have caught the very end of the first half. Not too much messing about a half-time - just a quick suck on a lemon - would have left time for a reading of the results before handing over to the cricket at four o'clock. I wonder how many blokes annoyed their wives by listening to the commentary on the wireless while watching the edited telerecording of the 1956 Farnborough Air Display with the volume turned down.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2010 21:51:34 GMT
I wonder how many blokes annoyed their wives by listening to the commentary on the wireless while watching the edited telerecording of the 1956 Farnborough Air Display with the volume turned down. What? And miss Raymond Baxter. Surely not, old boy. |
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