Post by Budleigh on Jan 25, 2010 12:10:08 GMT
A programme from our reserve Western League game away at The Huish against Yeovil Town on the 17th of October, 1959 which we won 2-0 on our way to winning the title.
It’s always interesting to read the ‘player’s notes’ in these away fixture reserve games as they often give us a bit of biographical detail about ‘lesser’ players, especially those who never made the first team.
Palmer, a promising young full-back who joined from Cardiff and was a Welsh Schoolboy International. What happened to him?
And there's a Bristow... which one was he?
Then on the Yeovil team, a familiar name to students of United’s history, a certain Dave Topping who, of course, made nearly 160 appearances for us before moving up to Yeovil and being a stalwart of their team for so many years. (He also featured in the Whites v Reds 1950 practice game, the programme for which I posted on here.)
The ‘Our Visitors’ notes are also interesting in the mention of United manger Eric Webber being ‘axed’ the previous season after an indifferent set of results (before being reinstated with a three year contract). So even then well-respected managers had a rocky time and found themselves in trouble. It’s not just a new thing around Plainmoor! Not only that but at the end of the following season, the one for which this programme is for, Webber's first team won promotion whilst this reserve team won the Western League and cup ‘double’.
It’s always interesting to read the ‘player’s notes’ in these away fixture reserve games as they often give us a bit of biographical detail about ‘lesser’ players, especially those who never made the first team.
Palmer, a promising young full-back who joined from Cardiff and was a Welsh Schoolboy International. What happened to him?
And there's a Bristow... which one was he?
Then on the Yeovil team, a familiar name to students of United’s history, a certain Dave Topping who, of course, made nearly 160 appearances for us before moving up to Yeovil and being a stalwart of their team for so many years. (He also featured in the Whites v Reds 1950 practice game, the programme for which I posted on here.)
The ‘Our Visitors’ notes are also interesting in the mention of United manger Eric Webber being ‘axed’ the previous season after an indifferent set of results (before being reinstated with a three year contract). So even then well-respected managers had a rocky time and found themselves in trouble. It’s not just a new thing around Plainmoor! Not only that but at the end of the following season, the one for which this programme is for, Webber's first team won promotion whilst this reserve team won the Western League and cup ‘double’.
