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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2010 0:32:10 GMT
But how do you pronounce Cambois? With a Geordie accent? Talking of your North-Eastern haunts, I've never been quite sure how to pronounce Tow Law. Is it Tow like Toe or does it rhyme with now? Cammus will do for Tommy's birthplace. It's Tow as in "now".....speaking of which, the club has applied for planning permission to build a wind turbine at its ground. Mind you, had it been in place when I was there, the fog was so bloody thick I wouldn't have seen it. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2010 11:40:02 GMT
Isn't Lynemouth Malcolm Musgrove's home town? I'm glad you've told me where Cambois is. I had never been able to make up my mind whether I thought Tommy Spratt was French or Belgian.  Interesting that footballers from Northumberland and Durham have been part of the history of Torquay United from the very first Football league game in 1927 (if not before). The transition from it being "a local club for local players" had certainly taken place by 1927. I wonder if this trend pre-dated professionalism earlier in the 1920s or only came about as a result of it? Certainly elsewhere - as far back as the introduction of professionalism in industrial Lancashire in the 1880s - player migration went hand-in-hand with remuneration. |
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Post by Jon on Mar 11, 2010 0:09:51 GMT
Interesting that footballers from Northumberland and Durham have been part of the history of Torquay United from the very first Football league game in 1927 (if not before). The transition from it being "a local club for local players" had certainly taken place by 1927. I wonder if this trend pre-dated professionalism earlier in the 1920s or only came about as a result of it? Certainly elsewhere - as far back as the introduction of professionalism in industrial Lancashire in the 1880s - player migration went hand-in-hand with remuneration. The original Torquay United (1899-1910) was purely a "local club for local players" as were Ellacombe and Babbacombe throughout their lives. Torquay Town was the first step on the path from amateur to professional with a lot of players brought in from Plymouth in 1910 - Mr Luscombe reckons Jimmy Cudlipp was on eight bob a week, but I don't know whether he had acces to payroll records or is relying on malicious rumour-mongering. There was a clear divide between Town and the Babs in that the Babs were a true "local club for local players" and really looked down their noses at Town for bringing in foreigners and getting into umanageable debt in pursuit of glory. The Torquay United formed in 1921 was a real professional club. I think that the first season, when we were turned down by the Southern League and so had a limited fixture list, was quite reliant on Plymouth / Exeter / Torquay based players, but entry to the Southern League in 1922 forced us to look further afield. Bob Preston, later to play for Argyle before returning to us when we were a league team, came from Hearts where he had been captain for the previous five seasons. Thompson, from Dundee, was "one of the finest half backs in Scotland". Miller was "the famous Scottish international centre forward who last played for Scotland in 1920/21". |
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Post by Jon on Mar 11, 2010 0:25:18 GMT
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