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Post by timbo on Jan 14, 2010 17:59:16 GMT
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Post by stewart on Jan 14, 2010 18:05:48 GMT
What on earth made them think that our centre half's name was Norman Griff ?
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Post by Jon on Jan 14, 2010 23:22:36 GMT
What on earth made them think that our centre half's name was Norman Griff ? I'm sure there was another programme posted recently that had him down as Norman Griffiths! |
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Post by Jon on Jan 14, 2010 23:30:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2010 20:37:47 GMT
This would have been by far the biggest occasion in Ely City's history. Looking at the programme I gather they were still in the Peterborough and District League when we played them. Thereafter they joined the Eastern Counties League in 1960 where they've remained ever since (yo-yoing between the two divisions in recent years). Never again have Ely reached the first round of the FA Cup.
Mention of the committee and supporters laying sleepers for terraces is interesting. I'm sure there was once a picture in Groundtastic (maybe?) of wooden pallets being laid to create raked terracing especially for the Torquay match.
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 17, 2010 8:44:53 GMT
Looked through Groundtastic and can't find the picture... (I don't have some of the earlier editions though) but I have seen that picture somewhere?
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 17, 2010 8:58:02 GMT
Found this on their official website....
ELY CITY FOOTBALL CLUB
In 1951 the club left the Cambridgeshire League for the Peterborough League and in their first season were runners-up in the League Cup, creating a record for the competition in reaching the final on the first time of entering. In 1954/55 the club reached the First Round Proper of the then FA Amateur Cup. In the following season, Ely had great success in the FA Cup, putting in outstanding performances for an amateur side. In the competition in 1956 they won 5-2 at Histon and by the same score at Cambridge United (in the Eastern Counties League at that time) before a crowd of 5,000. In the next round they won 1-0 at Cambridge City, the gate being 6,993. March Town were then drawn at Ely who won 2-0 (gate 3,132) and this was followed up by a visit from Sudbury, Ely winning 1-0 before 2,663 spectators. Ely went through to the first round proper and met Torquay United (then in division three south) at Ely. The visitors won 6-2 and 4,223 crammed into Ely's ground for a great day.
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Jan 17, 2010 10:37:32 GMT
Great front cover!
On a slight tangent - did we really sign Don Mills for £12,000? Isn't that the equivalent of us signing a player for £200k+ these days?!!
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Post by Jon on Jan 17, 2010 10:46:40 GMT
did we really sign Don Mills for £12,000? I certainly wouldn't have thought we did - but I don't know the actual fee. |
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 17, 2010 11:45:37 GMT
This is the Ely City pre-season team photo taken a month or two before they played us and shows their Championship trophy (as mentioned on the programme cover). The chap at the end of the back row is their mascot 'Mr. Posh'! |
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 20, 2010 8:31:08 GMT
Not sure if the picture you're thinking of is the one showing the terracing at Moorfields, home of Moor Green, being laid out in 1947 as shown in Kerry Miller's book 'Non League Football Grounds'.
This is now an abandoned 'hump' in the car park of this now unused ground ever since the pitch was re-angled to allow for the erection of floodlights. (Worth a look on Google Earth!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2010 20:31:06 GMT
Budleigh, cracking picture of work being done at Moor Green but it's not the one I have in mind. I can picture a few old-timers and pallets - or crates - being made into terracing. It's a fair time since I was shown it, so it could be from an early Groundtastic. The magazine's site says Ely were featured in issues 1 and 5 (more likely 5 according to this: www.groundtastic.co.uk/alphabetical/alpha-e.htm). Alternatively, Groundtastic's Eastern Counties League book? |
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Post by Budleigh on Jan 24, 2010 22:12:30 GMT
I'll see if i've got number 5, the article in no.1 is just a paragraph about a small stand upgrade...
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Post by forevergull on Jan 24, 2010 22:40:09 GMT
My memory says that we paid £1,200 for Don Mills - I think they've been generous with their zeros!
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Post by Jon on Jan 24, 2010 22:45:18 GMT
My memory says that we paid £1,200 for Don Mills - I think they've been generous with their zeros! Sounds more like it! |
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