Post by Budleigh on May 4, 2010 19:56:25 GMT
This is the away programme for the important Third Division (South) game at Meadow Lane against Notts County on the 4th of April 1950 and compliments the earlier one I posted for the home game at which we had our record crowd for the visit of Tommy Lawton.
This really was a must-win game for United as we were perceived to be County's nearest rivals for the title, but they had two games in hand on us and we had just lost manager McNeil to Bury the week before added to which Don Mills had returned to QPR from his loan spell at the club. In the end we drew 1-1, a result that effectively ended our chances and was part of a dreadful end of season run that saw the team lose six and draw three of the last nine games. How much was that down to the manager leaving at such a crucial time?
This is just one of the interesting points made in the write-up about Torquay in this programme.
One of the other's is the stating of Plainmoor's record crowd of 13,676 at the end of the United piece. Why is this interesting? Because you would expect the County 'historian', or the United one if he had supplied the details, to know that the record had been beaten previously in the season and now stood at 13,824, being that home game against Notts County.
Indeed this game itself drew a crowd of some 43,456, the highest ever at Meadow Lane for a match at that time excepting the game against Swansea Town two years previously when 45,116 packed into the Lane. Coincidentally, this record was overturned some two weeks after Torquay's visit when Nottingham Forest came for a championship decider on the 27th of April when just under 46,000 watched the match.
The line-up differs to that shown in the programme with Henry McGuiness at number five instead of Bert Head and Tommy Northcott at number ten in place of Sammy Collins.
And note how we played in..... red!
This really was a must-win game for United as we were perceived to be County's nearest rivals for the title, but they had two games in hand on us and we had just lost manager McNeil to Bury the week before added to which Don Mills had returned to QPR from his loan spell at the club. In the end we drew 1-1, a result that effectively ended our chances and was part of a dreadful end of season run that saw the team lose six and draw three of the last nine games. How much was that down to the manager leaving at such a crucial time?
This is just one of the interesting points made in the write-up about Torquay in this programme.
One of the other's is the stating of Plainmoor's record crowd of 13,676 at the end of the United piece. Why is this interesting? Because you would expect the County 'historian', or the United one if he had supplied the details, to know that the record had been beaten previously in the season and now stood at 13,824, being that home game against Notts County.
Indeed this game itself drew a crowd of some 43,456, the highest ever at Meadow Lane for a match at that time excepting the game against Swansea Town two years previously when 45,116 packed into the Lane. Coincidentally, this record was overturned some two weeks after Torquay's visit when Nottingham Forest came for a championship decider on the 27th of April when just under 46,000 watched the match.
The line-up differs to that shown in the programme with Henry McGuiness at number five instead of Bert Head and Tommy Northcott at number ten in place of Sammy Collins.
And note how we played in..... red!
