Odds & sods

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Division 3 table on 11/4/1992

Despite a 9 point gap, loads of teams below the Grecians & only 6 games left. Relegation was missed by a whisker on the last day.

At the top Stoke did not get promoted..The teams going up were Birmingham, Peterborough & Brentford.

 

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Division 3 table on 11/4/1992

Despite a 9 point gap, loads of teams below the Grecians & only 6 games left. Relegation was missed by a whisker on the last day.

At the top Stoke did not get promoted..The teams going up were Birmingham, Peterborough & Brentford.

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A where are they now analysis of those teams makes an interesting picture, with some wildly differing fortunes !

 

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A where are they now analysis of those teams makes an interesting picture, with some wildly differing fortunes !

Aye but a majority seem to have bettered themselves since

 

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6-13th April 1974.

 

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10/9/1977

Harry Holman broke into the team & was a regular at the beginning of the season, without doubt one of the best all round sportsman to play for the Grecians. Sadly never fulfilled his full potential due to injury.

A very popular fella in Exeter until his untimely death at 62 in late 2020.
Told me a amusing story when as a young 19 year old Pro, he turned up for training in a new 3 litre Capri. In those days footballers at lower league clubs did not have flash new cars. Bob Saxton saw it & jumped on the bonnet, telling Harry “ I hate flash b@stards”

In the photo Ken Beamish the Port Vale forward went in goal after a injury to the keeper.
Photo was from the Sunday Independent.

 

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Harry Holman the original HH

 

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10/9/1977

Harry Holman broke into the team & was a regular at the beginning of the season, without doubt one of the best all round sportsman to play for the Grecians. Sadly never fulfilled his full potential due to injury.

A very popular fella in Exeter until his untimely death at 62 in late 2020.
Told me a amusing story when as a young 19 year old Pro, he turned up for training in a new 3 litre Capri. In those days footballers at lower league clubs did not have flash new cars. Bob Saxton saw it & jumped on the bonnet, telling Harry “ I hate flash b@stards”

In the photo Ken Beamish the Port Vale forward went in goal after a injury to the keeper.
Photo was from the Sunday Independent.

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His father also called Harry, owned a haulage business and was rather well off. My father worked for him and I met Harry junior a few times.
One of the quickest players to play for City.

 

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Lammie Robertson in his last appearances as a Grecian against Port Vale before his transfer to 1st Division Leicester. The just as talented Colin Randall was quickly signed from Plymouth Argyle to fill the void.

 

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The days when the Sunday Independent was a must read for Grecian match reports from the Saturday.

Gordon Hines covered Exeter City for many years.

 

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Express & Echo Football Final page from 14/2/1953.

A report on the reserves who played in the Southern League at the time. Sounds like difficult conditions to put it mildly in Merthyr ! 2” of snow on the pitch. Combining that with a leather ball must have been sapping.
They were made of stern stuff in those days.