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Post by Jon on Oct 26, 2009 23:46:13 GMT
And a friendly - for the reserves? - against Trinidad when the firsts were due at Gillingham. It's funny how you wait years for a mention of Trinidad on a TUFC forum and then two stories come along at once. Our reserves lost the 1953 game 4-0 infront of a crowd of 2,500 plus. Webber R.Calland Smith Cheeseworth McGuiness Towers Bond Surrey Underhill Thomas Astreos More about the Trinidad tour on the link below. I see they hammered Ilfracombe - bowling them out for 87 after racking up 153-8 themselves. www.rsssf.com/tablest/trin-in-uk53.html |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2009 12:46:27 GMT
Fascinating stuff on that 1953 Trinidad tour. Given the times, I wonder what the crowds were on some of Cornish grounds and how big an event it was? One for the Home Service West you'd hope. There could have been all sorts of tours of that kind in those days. Four or five years earlier a Nigerian team toured the country - apparently playing in bare feet (I wonder?) - and drew a record crowd of nearly 11,000 to their game at Bromley. Wiki mentions them also playing Bishop Auckland, Dulwich Hamlet and South Liverpool. Also, on that post-war era, I've just read a book called The Austerity Olympics (and very good it was too) which includes a chapter about the 1948 Olympic football tournament that was played at a variety of venues from Wembley through to Ilford, Dulwich and Walthamstow (Luxembourg v Afghanistan at the Goldstone, anyone?). For more see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2009 14:20:49 GMT
On the other hand it sounds like a fixture from this season's Torbay Sunday League Division Two:
Torquay United Supporters v Trinidad and Torbaygo.
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