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Post by timbo on Sept 19, 2012 19:42:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2012 20:37:22 GMT
Back in those days "good old Lingy!" was the consultant orthopaedic surgeon.
Fred Binney back on the scene and, in the manager's words, "looking the prospect I'm sure he can be when he sets his mind on it". The Lloyd Macklin of his day?
Stubbs has gone and there's the customary gaggle of signings which not for the first time - nor the last - prove to be a mixed bag: Faulkes, Joy, Potter, Eric Welsh.
Calls from the fans to splash some cash on a new centre-forward but Allan Brown says the answer lies in the current squad. The aforementioned Binney's big chance surely?
But there's the arrival of Mark Spedding on the board - he of Pitt House School which we've discussed before - and there's a mention of Dickie Henderson starring in Torquay that summer. What a shame to have missed him. What did he do again?
The Flowers in the Donny side was John, brother of the more famous Ron. Wiki says he was married to Maureen Flowers, the darts champion.
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Post by Jon on Sept 19, 2012 22:27:50 GMT
So Robin Stubbs moved to Rovers to fill a gap caused by the sale of a player to Liverpool? I'd never heard that before.
The only Rovers to Liverpool move I can think of around that time was Larry Lloyd. He was a centre-half so Stubbs would not have been a replacement.
Does Brown mean that the Lloyd move gave Rovers the money to go for Stubbs? Is Shankly to blame for the fall of Torquay United?
Rodney Johnson was part of the Leeds golden generation and made his debut in the famous game when Revie threw four teenagers in to the first team together - the other three were Sprake, Reaney and Hunter. Strange definition of a "century" - 22 to be precise.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 10:15:29 GMT
Barton Downs
My exact thoughts, as 'Stand By Your Bedouin' probably provided almost as many chuckles as watching replays of Rene Howe's winning goal on Tuesday night.
Originally part of a trilogy (Stand by Your Bedouin, Uproar in the House, and Let Sleeping Wives Lie, all Garrick Theatre, 1967).
It was Brian Rix's touring company that brought it to Torquay. Written by Ray Cooney, it was a first rate farce also known as 'Bang Bang Beirut'
They would have been rolling in the aisles of the Pavilion Theatre after witnessing side splitting comedy guaranteed by a story line like that.
Incidentally Cooney also wrote the other farce 'Chase me Comrade' which would probably have appealed more to the TFF revolutionaries currently refighting the Battle of Orgreave' in another section.
And from farce to Gordon Bennett !. Let's not overlook Gordon's 720 mile sponsored walk with all money raised going to Bristol Rovers youth team.
Who would have guessed that in years to come farce and sponsored walks would be combined so memorably by Joe Barlow ?
That Doncaster line up does make me wonder whether they had a farcical policy of only signing players with surnames ending in 'N' ?
Eight out of the eleven (5 on's, 2 en's, and a solitary an) does seem to be overdoing it a bit.
Another thoroughly interesting glimpse at times gone by, and we're all very grateful to timbo for sharing these wonderful old match programmes with us.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 10:49:28 GMT
Thank you, Alpine Joe, for the synopsis of Stand by your Bedouin, surely one of the great counter-cultural events of 1968/69.
There's a possibilibility that a few of the more left-leaning members of this forum may be staging Dario Fo productions at football social clubs up-and-down the countrry. We'll keep you posted because of your fondness for commedia dell'arte, especially in the SW Peninsula League setting.
When I heard the name Gordon Bennett I wondered if it is the same person of that name who later became head of youth development at both Rovers and Argyle.
If Wiki is to be believed, he may well be:
Gordon Bennett is the Head of Youth Development at League Two side Plymouth Argyle.
Earlier in his career, Bennett was Chief Executive of Bristol Rovers and Norwich City F.C. His time at Carrow Road was significant enough that in 2003, he was made an inaugural member of the Norwich City Hall of Fame. After leaving Norwich, Bennett worked for Aberdeen F.C. and while working there he remarked, "When you have a name like mine I am bound to be latched upon".
In 1969 Bennett won an ITV/Daily Mail-sponsored fan-of-the-year competition. By answering a series of questions on his beloved Bristol Rovers, Bennett earned a trip to the Mexico World Cup and a £1,000 cheque. Personally, the prizes did not interest him. He gave the tickets away to the runner-up and presented the money as a gift to Rovers. Bennett spent his early years at Ram Hill, Coalpit Heath, near Bristol and in his playing days Bennett played amateur football for Henfield Youth AFC.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 11:10:57 GMT
Talk about farce...I think it could very well be the same man. After all those miles of sponsored walks Gordon never lost his love of being near a pavement. ' In February 2000, it was reported on Teletext that Aberdeen Football Club said its chief executive, who received a warning from police after being stopped in a red light district, was not kerb-crawling. Gordon Bennett was stopped in the city in November during a police crackdown on kerb-crawling, but was not charged. The club said he was testing out ways of getting to the club's ground the night before he started his new job'. www.ex-canaries.co.uk/players/bennett-gordon.htm |
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