Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2009 21:46:11 GMT
Dial m for Merthyr was the name of a fanzine - perhaps it still is - and, according to the Non League Paper, Merthyr Tydfil are in a bad way.
The club owes money to all sorts of people and businesses including British Gas which supplies the electricity to Penydarren Park. This isn't impressing the Southern League which, of course, is sponsored by British Gas.
Likewise it should be noted that one of the club's directors - and former chairman - is the Welsh entertainer (of sorts) Owen Money.
And that's just what his club is doing....
Merthyr - as Merthyr Town - were actually in the Football League in the 1920s and Penydarren Park was the scene of our first Football League victory on 3 September 1927.
Better news of Gateshead, another one of our former opponents who are doing well in Conference North. A 3-2 victory at Southport (always a hard place to visit) puts them ahead of Tamworth at the top of the table.
Officially it's not the same club that we played at the old Redheugh Park in the late 1950s. That club was voted out of the Football League in 1960 and folded some years later. This is how the local evening paper reported Gateshead's departure from the league . Was the man with the drill a particularly disappointed supporter?
From the Football League's official centenary history.
The club owes money to all sorts of people and businesses including British Gas which supplies the electricity to Penydarren Park. This isn't impressing the Southern League which, of course, is sponsored by British Gas.
Likewise it should be noted that one of the club's directors - and former chairman - is the Welsh entertainer (of sorts) Owen Money.
And that's just what his club is doing....
Merthyr - as Merthyr Town - were actually in the Football League in the 1920s and Penydarren Park was the scene of our first Football League victory on 3 September 1927.
Better news of Gateshead, another one of our former opponents who are doing well in Conference North. A 3-2 victory at Southport (always a hard place to visit) puts them ahead of Tamworth at the top of the table.
Officially it's not the same club that we played at the old Redheugh Park in the late 1950s. That club was voted out of the Football League in 1960 and folded some years later. This is how the local evening paper reported Gateshead's departure from the league . Was the man with the drill a particularly disappointed supporter?
From the Football League's official centenary history.
I think unwittingly, Bartie has turned up the sory of the year with that "drilling his own head" stonker! 
