8 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

Tony Hately there with the Doc, who didn’t pull up trees with us apparantly. He tried to big him up to Bill Shankly.

TD: “ He’s a great player. A hundred thousand wouldn’t buy him”

BS: “ Yeah. And I’m one of them”

Edit- having looked again not sure that is TH

Just checked and  it is Joe Baker !

Man City at The Bridge, Nov 1960,

 

Bert Murray.                                                                   The Bridge,

 West Ham at The Bridge, early 1960s.

Edited November 14, 20196 yr by erskblue

Pat Jennings of Spurs receiving treatment at The Bridge Nov 1971. We won 1-0 , our scorer Charlie Cooke.

 A midweek friendly which we won 3-0.    A crowd of  9,696 took the afternoon off work or school to watch it.

 Wednesday, 15th Nov 1978.    A friendly against Dynamo Moscow.  We lost 2-1.    Clive Walker scoring.

A crowd of 9,550  saw it.    About 100.000 less than watched the famous 1945 Friendly !

 Cup Winners Cup return May 1971

14 hours ago, erskblue said:

Just checked and  it is Joe Baker !

Cheers Ersk

12 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

Cheers Ersk

No problem.

 

Keith Weller v Man City, 1971.

 Some goalmouth action v Man City.

Chris Garland

The Cat in action.                                                                                           Tommy Baldwin

1973- 74  Stoke City away. The two captains are old Chelsea team-mates,o ur John Hollins No 4 and Alan Hudson of Stoke. 

Unusual strip awe are wearing that day !

1972 / 1973 FA Cup - Sixth Round: Chelsea 2 Arsenal 2 Chelsea's Peter Houseman, at Stamford Bridge.

FA Cup 1972 - 73 FA Cup 6th Round tie at The Bridge, We drew 2-2 with Arsenal.  Peter Houseman in action.

In the background, the new stand is taking shape at The Bridge.

Liverpool at The Bridge, early 70s.

Edited November 15, 20196 yr by erskblue

 

Sat, 16th Nov 1996 . The debut of  the wee genius.

 Sat 16th Nov 1963.   We beat Arsenal 3-1,  in front of a crowd of  47,050.   Quite a precise crowd figure ! 

Our scorers: Barry Bridges, Bert Murray and Ian Watson.   This was Ian Watson's only first team goal for us.

Edited November 16, 20196 yr by erskblue