On BBC Breakfast this morning they discussed this fact based film of the Busby Babes and Munich with David Tennant who plays Jimmy Murphy, the then trainer. A clip they showed was of Murphy (Tennant) geeing the team up in the dressing room by calling out the names of towns the players came from. Doncaster, Barnsley, the North-East, and the players responded with boos and/or cheers. Then he said 'Charlton' and this was greeted with them all stamping their boots on the floor. Whether it was a reference to us or to Sir Bobby wasn't clear but the production and period detail looks good and perhaps things will be made clear on the night. It has a similar look to 'The Damn United'.
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How times change - imagine a professional team now consisting entirely of people from the UK, never mind a Northern team dominated by players born in the North of England.
I'll be watching (even though i detest David Tennant!!)
6 October 1956
Man U 4 (Berry, Charlton (2) Whelan) CAFC 2 (Lucas, Ayre) 41,689
Charlton went 1 up and then 3 - 1 down, 3 - 2 down and then 4 - 2
Marsh, Campbell, Ellis, O'Linn, Hewie, Hammond, Ayre, Gauld, Leary, Lucas, White
I'm sure others can beat that.
Marsh, (Dundee)
Campbell, (Glasgow)
Ellis, (Charlton)
O'Linn, (Cape Town)
Hewie, (Nr Pretoria)
Hammond, (Woolwich)
Ayre, (Berwick on Tweed)
Gauld, (Aberdeen)
Leary, (Cape Town)
Lucas, (Slade Green)
White (Bethnal Green)
One "Cockney", three south Londoners plus three Saffers and three and half jocks.
Didn't Ayre play for England U23s?
If so 3 Jocks
He did but Berwick is on the border hence the joke about him being half Scottish.
I got the Berwick bit. I thought you were perhaps coming at it from the other direction and calling him a half jock because he lived on the Border particularly as Ayre is a Scottish name i believe.
In the programme for the match against Spurs on 31st (the club's 4th First Division game in 7 days!), the club notes said:
'The 5-1 defeat at Manchester on Monday did our goals average no good at all, but even so our 5 reserves put up a gallant show - particularly wing halves Syd O'Lynn and Gordon Pembery.
Tuesday's 3-0 victory over the league leaders, Manchester United, was a crowning holiday success, and it did our hearts good to hear the full-throated roar of the 42,000 crowd when Jimmy Gauld scored the first goal. But for Wood's brilliance in goal we would have routed United by a big score. We certainly overplayed them - particularly in the first half.'
Those were the days - I thought watching Charlton was always going to be like that!
Hewie and Leary.
But surely you too saw Leary play, Len?
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Hewie and Leary.
But surely you too saw Leary play, Len?[/quote]
And Ron White.......inside left....as it was?
No I narrowly missed Leary sadly (although I saw him play cricket for Kent plenty of times). My first match was early 1963 and Leary was transferred to QPR shortly before.
Yes it was reference to us. We were a top team back then ;-(
GOD BLESS THEM ALL
However, I noticed they still made it to The Cup Final with only Harry Gregg in goal & later Bobby Charlton of the original 11. Somethings never change :-)
Yep 100% agree....I was told the same by my dad and grandad who were CAFC through and through..but said Edwards was 2 classes above any player they had ever seen before...such a shame he was taken at such a young age....better than Best/Pele.....who will ever know....but I trusted my old mans judgement.
Thought tonights programe was excellent....even after the Charlton quips at the start...thought it was done with a touch of reverance.....well done to the makers!
That said I still found myself trying to work out who the mouthy charlton player was and who the centre forward who was quicker than he looked was!
Alan Hardaker would never have said SKEDULE rather than SHEDULE for schedule in 1958 but apart from that they captured the era really well I thought.