Odds & sods

[Oldsmobile-88]

Some interesting teams in the Southern Premier. Yeovil, Bath, Weymouth and Dorchester present as expected but I being brought up a (half) generation later it's strange seeing Minehead as a top SW non league team (although I'm aware they were).

A decent league.The Alliance League with the Northern Premier League was on the horizon 1978/79.
Minehead finished runners up to Wimbledon that season who of course entered the Football League replacing Workington at the FL AGM in June.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

1987/88.
The Grecians had a great start to the season losing only once in the first nine games & appeared to have tuned the draws of the previous season into wins.Topping the table in late September.
Particularly memorable in that early season run was a 3-2 win at Orient after going 2-1 down with a few minutes to play.Tony Kellow bent a beautiful free kick into the net for the winner in injury time.
All a false dawn,the wheels came off in early October following a home defeat to Torquay.
Colin Appleton resigned in early December(the team were 14th) John Delve took over in a temporary role,which was later extended to the end of the season.
Average attendance 2,463...Wolves & Cardiff were given the BB,not that it made much difference to the crowd figures 3,483 & 2,649 respectively which resulted in a few pi55ed off regulars who voted with their feet for the rest of the season.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

23rd December 1961.
A long old journey in those days for the Grecians.I expect they still used train travel at that time.
Burnley top of Division One,were a major force in football at the time under the legendary Harry Potts.
They were League Champions in 1960 & finished runners up in this season.
Ipswich Town under Alf Ramsey won the League Title Club after coming up from Division Three in consecutive seasons.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

23rd December 1961.
A long old journey in those days for the Grecians.I expect they still used train travel at that time.
Burnley top of Division One,were a major force in football at the time under the legendary Harry Potts.
They were League Champions in 1960 & finished runners up in this season.
Ipswich Town under Alf Ramsey won the League Title Club after coming up from Division Three in consecutive seasons.
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"Crystal Palace thrashed"
You wouldn't get that nowadays ....

 

[Colesman Ballz]

On my only ever visit to Selhurst Park I witnessed Palace thrash Man Utd 5-0 ! Think it was the season that Utd got relegated, they were dire. I felt sorry for Ted Macdougal who was leading their line, and the poor bugger only got set up for a chance once in the match.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

On my only ever visit to Selhurst Park I witnessed Palace thrash Man Utd 5-0 ! Think it was the season that Utd got relegated, they were dire. I felt sorry for Ted Macdougal who was leading their line, and the poor bugger only got set up for a chance once in the match.

My only visit there was also a Man Utd defeat - only at the hands of Wimbledon 1-0.

 

[Billy The Fish]

Bradford PA in a higher division than Bradford City.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

On my only ever visit to Selhurst Park I witnessed Palace thrash Man Utd 5-0 ! Think it was the season that Utd got relegated, they were dire. I felt sorry for Ted Macdougal who was leading their line, and the poor bugger only got set up for a chance once in the match.

Iirc Frank O’Farrell was given the push after that game..Incidentally O’Farrell is still about & lives in Torquay.

United were relegated the next season 73/74.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Bradford PA in a higher division than Bradford City.

I think they were for many years.
Their ground,designed by Archibald Leitch was far superior to Valley Parade apparently.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

One of those great early 1970s photos.
Brian Joy who signed from Doncaster in July 1973.He left the club at the end of the 1975/76 season to play in the new NASL,not a bad gig in those days,playing with the likes of Pele & Eusebio to name just two legends playing in the new North American Soccer League.
Iirc John Newman was disappointed that he decided to leave,he was a very versatile defender & could play in midfield.