On 22/10/2023 at 23:55, Boyne said:

First match back in Div 1 at Highbury, 1-1 with that outstanding goal from Kerry.  I think the photo image might be back to front as the shirt badges appear to be on the wrong side of the shirts?

14 hours ago, Boyne said:

Beating the Dippers 2-0 in the Cup in 82, I think the next match was the quarter final against the Spuds, which went very well in the first half …. Love the bloke going base over apex trying to get through the gate …

48 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Bobby pouring cups of tea.

I wonder who thought that would make a great football picture?

12 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Bobby pouring cups of tea.

I wonder who thought that would make a great football picture?

Probably wedgewood or whoever else made the teaset

On 25/10/2023 at 10:45, Gate 13 said:

Beating the Dippers 2-0 in the Cup in 82, I think the next match was the quarter final against the Spuds, which went very well in the first half …. Love the bloke going base over apex trying to get through the gate …

He’s got his uniform on, polo neck and Diamond Pringle. Couple of years previous he’d probably been a second wave skinhead. Funny how the DM’s and short hair look shouted out aggression and violence- same people with wedge haircuts and 40 nicker jumpers look a lot more benign..

From 1958. The London team was: Jack Kelsey (Arsenal), Peter Sillett (Chelsea), Jim Langley (Fulham), Danny Blanchflower (Tottenham), Maurice Norman (Tottenham), Ken Coote (Brentford), Vic Groves (Arsenal), Jimmy Greaves (Chelsea), Bobby Smith (Tottenham), Johnny Haynes (Fulham), George Robb (Tottenham).

The game was the first leg of the Inter Cities Final. Barcelona won the game 8-2. They also won the second leg 6-0.

22 hours ago, Boyne said:

From 1958. The London team was: Jack Kelsey (Arsenal), Peter Sillett (Chelsea), Jim Langley (Fulham), Danny Blanchflower (Tottenham), Maurice Norman (Tottenham), Ken Coote (Brentford), Vic Groves (Arsenal), Jimmy Greaves (Chelsea), Bobby Smith (Tottenham), Johnny Haynes (Fulham), George Robb (Tottenham).

The game was the first leg of the Inter Cities Final. Barcelona won the game 8-2. They also won the second leg 6-0.

Cheers mate , I was completely unaware of this.

19 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Cheers mate , I was completely unaware of this.

Thank you mate. I saw it on Facebook the other day. Like you I was unaware of until then. Crowd at the Bridge was 45,466. Greaves and Langley scored for the London XI. I've checked the results again and the score at the Bridge was 2-2. Barcelona won the game in Spain 6-0.

On 17/11/2023 at 20:07, Boyne said:

I thinks this is away at Grimsby after winning the Div 2 Championship, 1983-4.  What I would not give for one of those shirts, long sleeve version - perhaps we should make Le Coq an offer? 

On 10/11/2023 at 14:56, Boyne said:

Thank you mate. I saw it on Facebook the other day. Like you I was unaware of until then. Crowd at the Bridge was 45,466. Greaves and Langley scored for the London XI. I've checked the results again and the score at the Bridge was 2-2. Barcelona won the game in Spain 6-0.

The original Inter City Fairs Cup criteria for qualifying was for cities that had or were hosting trade fairs ! Hence the name I suppose.

Then when it became a club competition that had a rule for a while that only 1 team from a city could qualify.. so if Chelsea qualified and the next spot was a London club, it would skip that team and onto the next club.

Newcastle qualified in 10 th place .

The history of the competition is interesting and bonkers !

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

The original Inter City Fairs Cup criteria for qualifying was for cities that had or were hosting trade fairs ! Hence the name I suppose.

Then when it became a club competition that had a rule for a while that only 1 team from a city could qualify.. so if Chelsea qualified and the next spot was a London club, it would skip that team and onto the next club.

Newcastle qualified in 10 th place .

The history of the competition is interesting and bonkers !

Thanks for the information mate. Didn't know that about 1 team from a city.

Chelsea were infamously bullied out of competing the first European Cup by the Football League's Alan Hardaker – who considered the competition to be teeming with "too many wogs and dagoes" for his liking, deep thinker that he was – but they weren't the only London outfit to be slow on the uptake regarding continental football. None of the other big clubs in the capital showed any interest in fielding a team in the first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, also founded in 1955; in the end, to nobody's satisfaction, a representative London XI had to be hastily cobbled together.

2 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Chelsea were infamously bullied out of competing the first European Cup by the Football League's Alan Hardaker – who considered the competition to be teeming with "too many wogs and dagoes" for his liking, deep thinker that he was – but they weren't the only London outfit to be slow on the uptake regarding continental football. None of the other big clubs in the capital showed any interest in fielding a team in the first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, also founded in 1955; in the end, to nobody's satisfaction, a representative London XI had to be hastily cobbled together.

From what I've read , in 1955 no clubs but only Cities played. Barcelona obviously played as a team and a City , but we had to form a London team to play in the competition. So I'm not sure that our clubs  showed "no interest " , they couldn't enter anyway 

On 19/11/2023 at 22:14, Gate 13 said:

I thinks this is away at Grimsby after winning the Div 2 Championship, 1983-4.  What I would not give for one of those shirts, long sleeve version - perhaps we should make Le Coq an offer? 

Buy a replica and add the Lecoq sportif badges yourself. 

17 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

The original Inter City Fairs Cup criteria for qualifying was for cities that had or were hosting trade fairs ! Hence the name I suppose.

Then when it became a club competition that had a rule for a while that only 1 team from a city could qualify.. so if Chelsea qualified and the next spot was a London club, it would skip that team and onto the next club.

Newcastle qualified in 10 th place .

The history of the competition is interesting and bonkers !

The Rising Sun: Agree with you regarding the history of The Fairs Cup competition !

On 21/11/2023 at 14:41, The Rising Sun said:

Chelsea were infamously bullied out of competing the first European Cup by the Football League's Alan Hardaker – who considered the competition to be teeming with "too many wogs and dagoes" for his liking, deep thinker that he was – but they weren't the only London outfit to be slow on the uptake regarding continental football. None of the other big clubs in the capital showed any interest in fielding a team in the first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, also founded in 1955; in the end, to nobody's satisfaction, a representative London XI had to be hastily cobbled together.

I read that in the following year when Manchester United had qualified for the European Cup that the Football League tried to stop them competing it. By all accounts United the Football League to get stuffed or words to that effect. 

8 minutes ago, Boyne said:

I read that in the following year when Manchester United had qualified for the European Cup that the Football League tried to stop them competing it. By all accounts United the Football League to get stuffed or words to that effect. 

Yeah that's what I've read previously.

Bastards, we could have been the first English team to play in the European Cup 

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27 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Tenacious left back and a sublime ball player who crafted the goal for Osgood in the FA cup replay.

The header was magnificent but that pass ....wow