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1947 FA Cup footage

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,078
    Love the show boating from Duffy.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,952
    edited June 2014
    I thought the smiling bloke with the slightly wavy hair is Barnes Wallis, but I've just looked up his picture and it's not. However, he looks very familiar. Anyone got any idea who it is?
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Brilliant footage, thanks Len loving the striped socks!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    edited June 2014
    Great film Len.

    Is it Deputy PM, Herbert Morrison?

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,336
    This is wonderful stuff.
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    Thanks for posting the footage Len, really enjoyed seeing that.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    We were even boring in those days....didn't even lift the cup up!!
  • Hooped socks and 'overly' white shirts. It's an omen I tell ya!
  • Love the show boating from Duffy.

    Reminded me of Charles Charlie Charles (of the famous Charles family).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc2To-pKMSg
  • Godstone
    Godstone Posts: 700
    Brilliant footage. Is that different to the footage on the Centenary DVD?

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  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    I pored over this footage when I was a kid, courtesy of the 'British Movietone News: Early Cup Finals' videos/VHS.

    They had 3 of the Charlton Wembley finals from that period on there, this, the Derby game & the 1-7 defeat to the Gooners in the League War Final.

    I tried to emulate Duffy's jelly-legs in the school playground many a time, but never pulled it off with quite so much (or any in fact) aplomb. :-D

    We were even boring in those days....didn't even lift the cup up!!

    In all the finals from that period/on the Vid (38-50), I don't think any team captain lifts the cup from the the top of the 39 steps.

    Maybe they were more conservative back then?

    Len, can you confirm this, & what was it like at Wembley that day? ;-)

    Love the Charlie Charles footage too! Nearly added that myself! Nice one Raith! :-D
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,760
    great stuff...
  • great posting. Cannot believe the keepers did not wear gloves with those balls...proper men!!
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,187
    cheers len, great to see that. funny no raising of the cup up on the gantry like they do today.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,451
    Su-fucking-perb!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,336

    Su-fucking-perb!

    Somehow, I don't think that's how the action was described back in those days.