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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2012 21:28:09 GMT
My accomplice did take pictures at the pre-season friendly between Workington and Barrow. Workington play at Borough Park which is next door to the town's rugby league ground and very close to the river that flooded with such tragic consequences a few years back. Torquay United played on several occasions at Workington between the formation of the national fourth division in 1958 and Workington's departure from the league in 1977. Workington now play in Conference North which means that teams such as Gloucester, Worcester, Brackley, Bishops Stortford and Oxford City will be visiting this season. Simple directions: turn left at the Lake District, drive through the mountains until you reach the sea:         |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 6:40:22 GMT
Great pictures of Borough Park, where stars like John Lumsden, Geoff Martin and Peter Foley used to delight the home fans in their Football League days.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 11:55:21 GMT
Great pictures of Borough Park, where stars like John Lumsden, Geoff Martin and Peter Foley used to delight the home fans in their Football League days. After pausing to research, I note the Chesterfield connection with these players. For me, it's always Tony Geidmintis who I most associate with Workington. Born in Stepney, I wonder how he ended up making this debut for Workington as a fifteen-year-old? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2012 10:41:14 GMT
And those Workington players are just the sort that would have been featured in Soccer Star back in the 1960s.
I loved Soccer Star as a kid. It wasn't flash, it wasn't glossy. It did news and detail extremely well and it tended to give equal coverage to different clubs and parts of the country. It also had plenty of stuff about amateur and non-league football.
In that way Soccer Star encouraged me to be interested in football in general and it probably had a big part in moulding my outlook on the game. Looking at a few old issues now I can see this was achieved by employing a string of trusty freelances dotted around the country. Maurice Golesworthy - a chap from Kenn near Exeter who compiled football reference books - was the West Country correspondent. And Soccer Star left their blokes to get on with in their own style. If Ken Outram, their man in Cheshire, wanted to cover schools football, then so be it. The people in the magazine's office, probably no more than a handful, then filled in with the bare bones of the big stories.
This seemed to give the impression that the FA Cup final wasn't too much more important than the latest events at Bacup Borough. This may have suited swotty schoolboys with a thirst for arcane knowledge but it probably didn't do much for Soccer Star in a changing market. It ceased publication in 1970.
I battled on with Goal but it was the arrival of the Book of Football, that Marshall Cavendish part work, which replaced Soccer Star for me. Only twenty pages in each edition, mind, but incredibly nicely-presented and wonderfully-written. I did the thing that had to be done to make such a part work worthwhile: I put the school work aside to make sure each edition was read before the next arrived from the paper shop on Park Road, St Marychurch. If any publication really informed me about the game - how it works, its history and what it means - it was the Book of Football.
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