Post by Budleigh on Nov 17, 2009 19:06:10 GMT
This is such an interesting programme... Played at the Lea Bridge Stadium, only home to Clapton Orient for seven seasons from 1930 until 1937, this was a game that United lost 2-0 in front of 7,484 spectators.
To start with it shows Clapton Orient playing a friendly against Luton seven games into the season and being against a fellow rival league club. Not only that but it must've seemed an important fixture to have been placed on the published list as such whereas there is no sign of any others. And does this contravene Jon's understanding of the ruling that no friendlies could be played against rival league clubs, or not as it's after pre-season?
Note also that the FA Cup is down as the English Cup.
And the programme notes (Oriental Jottings) are quite fantastic, especially the bit about the problems with rumour-mongering! Ring any bells? And as for the way it is written... priceless.
Again the teams are laid out in positional order with the actual positions written by each players name but the most fascinating aspect is the numbering. Not one to eleven for each team but one to twenty-two giving each player, irrespective of team, an individual number, although the numbers were unlikely to have been on the shirts as today. Manchester City & Everton first wore numbers in the 1933 Cup Final (as here, one to twenty-two) but numbers weren't mandatory until 1939 and very few clubs, Arsenal excepted, used this system before then.
The unfortunate Les Lievesley makes an appearance at number 17. (See the Whites v Stripes post for the reasons he is labelled as such)
To start with it shows Clapton Orient playing a friendly against Luton seven games into the season and being against a fellow rival league club. Not only that but it must've seemed an important fixture to have been placed on the published list as such whereas there is no sign of any others. And does this contravene Jon's understanding of the ruling that no friendlies could be played against rival league clubs, or not as it's after pre-season?
Note also that the FA Cup is down as the English Cup.
And the programme notes (Oriental Jottings) are quite fantastic, especially the bit about the problems with rumour-mongering! Ring any bells? And as for the way it is written... priceless.
Again the teams are laid out in positional order with the actual positions written by each players name but the most fascinating aspect is the numbering. Not one to eleven for each team but one to twenty-two giving each player, irrespective of team, an individual number, although the numbers were unlikely to have been on the shirts as today. Manchester City & Everton first wore numbers in the 1933 Cup Final (as here, one to twenty-two) but numbers weren't mandatory until 1939 and very few clubs, Arsenal excepted, used this system before then.
The unfortunate Les Lievesley makes an appearance at number 17. (See the Whites v Stripes post for the reasons he is labelled as such)
