Know this team well. Nostalgic. Made my day. Thanks for posting.
Back row L-R: Jimmy Seed, Jimmy Trotter?, John Hewie, Buck Ryan, Bobby Ayre, Don Townsend, Derek Ufton, Trevor Edwards, Ronnie White, Freddie Lucas, Eddie Werge, Bottom row L-R: Frank Reed, Gordon Jago, Johnny Summers, Stuart Leary & Peter Firmani.
Great team to watch always gave 100%. Leary, probably the best player, had a contract of £15pw. Those were the days. Formation: 2 Full backs, 3 Half backs: 5 Forwards.
We used to play hockey in the snow in the winter, so determined were we to get out in the open to do sports of any kind.
you must have dreamt of a world of Xbox's and playstations
No, not at all. Radio controlled aircraft, flying with the air cadets, going to the rifle range, and, scalextric car racing. An X box is something I have never had. Or any other gimmick box.
Aah December 81. There was a girl walking in snowy Blackheath Village who I chatted up and found she'd missed her last bus. I took her to the cab station and 40 years later we're still married.
“I got sent off after about 20-25 minutes in that one for two bookable tackles on Alex Rae,” recalls Bowyer. “He dived in the air twice – I didn’t touch him".
Aah December 81. There was a girl walking in snowy Blackheath Village who I chatted up and found she'd missed her last bus. I took her to the cab station and 40 years later we're still married.
Mate that is a lovely story, a real sliding doors moment in your lives
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Back row L-R: Jimmy Seed, Jimmy Trotter?, John Hewie, Buck Ryan, Bobby Ayre, Don Townsend, Derek Ufton, Trevor Edwards, Ronnie White, Freddie Lucas, Eddie Werge,
Bottom row L-R: Frank Reed, Gordon Jago, Johnny Summers, Stuart Leary & Peter Firmani.
Great team to watch always gave 100%. Leary, probably the best player, had a contract of £15pw. Those were the days. Formation: 2 Full backs, 3 Half backs: 5 Forwards.
It's snowing at the Valley
Pic from the Tom Morris archive recently acquired by the museum and shared with other CAFC sources such as Voice of the Valley
It's snowing at the Valley
Pic from the Tom Morris archive
Photo taken from the Covered End
There was a girl walking in snowy Blackheath Village who I chatted up and found she'd missed her last bus.
I took her to the cab station and 40 years later we're still married.
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