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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2014 16:53:06 GMT 1
Interesting article in t'Guardian about Alex Jackson. Loved the bit about Herbet Chapman having to buy a round for an entire pub-full of Glaswegians. Link
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Post by catterickterrier on Nov 16, 2014 17:42:35 GMT 1
My Grandads favourite player
No one could touch him he said, absolute flyer
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Post by Grandfather Berty of Cleck on Nov 16, 2014 19:11:47 GMT 1
My Grandads favourite player No one could touch him he said, absolute flyer The ex wife has never found out, but our son is named after him.
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Post by impact on Nov 16, 2014 19:29:18 GMT 1
It really does show the need for the Bosman rule.
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Post by drayltonboy (independent) on Nov 16, 2014 20:27:07 GMT 1
It is so much a tale of it's time - maximum wage with better pay in non league, a player's registration being held by the club out of spite once he fell out with them, and England refusing to let the foreigners who were playing in our league to play for their own countries. Each of these scenarios would be outrageous today.
Cracking story. What the Guardian does best
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Post by terracesider on Nov 16, 2014 21:12:57 GMT 1
Thanks for highlighting that - a really fascinating tale. Only just over 80 years ago and it seems to have come from much further back than that, we have come a heck of a long way - thank goodness...
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Post by catterickterrier on Nov 16, 2014 21:26:47 GMT 1
My Grandads favourite player No one could touch him he said, absolute flyer The ex wife has never found out, but our son is named after him. That is genius Berty fair play fella
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2014 21:39:52 GMT 1
Superb article. Something you just don't get with foreign newspapers.
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Post by Bojaj Horseman on Nov 16, 2014 22:01:31 GMT 1
"unconventional Newcastle striker Hughie Gallacher, who was playing his first game since returning from a two-month ban for pushing a referee into a bath" was my favourite part. Remember him from that Leeds Road video
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Post by swam4mwg on Nov 16, 2014 22:07:27 GMT 1
Fascinating article. So much for the 'Gentleman's sporting game' of that era. Somewhat forced to play in non league at the prime of his career.
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Post by bristolterrier on Nov 16, 2014 23:30:26 GMT 1
My Grandads favourite player No one could touch him he said, absolute flyer My Dad's fav footballer.Along with his fav cricketer Wally Hammond. Not a Guardian reader by a long way but thanks for posting the link. Along with the brilliant Patrick Collins in The Mail on Sunday it's nice to know that well researched and articulately written articles still exist in today's press.
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Post by runner76 on Nov 17, 2014 12:29:58 GMT 1
Somebody should get that made into a film........!!
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Post by aksaiblue on Nov 17, 2014 13:15:29 GMT 1
Somebody should get that made into a film........!! I agree he led an interesting and eventful life
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Nov 17, 2014 13:31:59 GMT 1
Jackson has always been my favourite player that I never saw play...if that makes sense. Fantastic article which fails to point out what a great header of the ball he was as well.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2014 13:51:37 GMT 1
Also went by the excellent middle name of 'Skinner' which went some way to describing what he did to full-backs! (It was probably his mother's maiden name.)It's also worth pointing out that when he died in 1946, he only left effects to the value of £356 14s 4d - even today it wouldn't have been a vast amount.
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Post by kennyk2 on Nov 17, 2014 13:52:27 GMT 1
My Grandads favourite player No one could touch him he said, absolute flyer Ditto. By the sounds of it he must have been good.
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Post by yanfan on Nov 17, 2014 15:01:44 GMT 1
Absolutely facinating--What a player and man.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Nov 17, 2014 17:18:33 GMT 1
Next London match suggest we all have a drink in the Angel and Crown on St Martins lane. Used to work just round the corner from there and never realised.
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Post by swam4mwg on Nov 17, 2014 23:09:57 GMT 1
Also went by the excellent middle name of 'Skinner' which went some way to describing what he did to full-backs! (It was probably his mother's maiden name.)It's also worth pointing out that when he died in 1946, he only left effects to the value of £356 14s 4d - even today it wouldn't have been a vast amount. I often wonder where the players of that great Town era lived. They might have lived on our own street.
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Post by jl195480 on Nov 21, 2014 11:38:49 GMT 1
Can I now chuck in the old joke about the England Scotland game of 1977?
A scotsman and a welshman were on the London to Glasgow train after the match.
The Welsh guy says. "Been to the match? How did you do?"
The Scots guy replies, "We got two goals... do you want a piece of one?"
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