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Post by georgethebassett on Jan 7, 2009 16:56:51 GMT
I was minus nine weeks' old when we knocked 'Pool out of the cup, but it is a game that I have often dreamed about. If I could travel back in time it would be one of two sporting occasions in Worcester I would stop off at; the other being WCCC's first match as a 'first class' county against Yorkshire in 1899.
I wonder if there will be any media/press coverage for the 50th anniversary further afield than the Worcester News?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2009 17:26:57 GMT
"WCCC's first match as a 'first class' county against Yorkshire in 1899" I remember it well.
With a bit of forward planning we might have got Liverpool to send a team down for a re-match. Good publicity.
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Post by wh on Jan 7, 2009 17:49:54 GMT
"WCCC's first match as a 'first class' county against Yorkshire in 1899" I remember it well. With a bit of forward planning we might have got Liverpool to send a team down for a re-match. Good publicity. It was almost a done deal, with Gary Ablett bringing the reserves down but the board problems put LFC off  |
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Post by creaner on Jan 7, 2009 19:09:32 GMT
"WCCC's first match as a 'first class' county against Yorkshire in 1899" I remember it well. With a bit of forward planning we might have got Liverpool to send a team down for a re-match. Good publicity. It was almost a done deal, with Gary Ablett bringing the reserves down but the board problems put LFC off Not quite written off yet. Plans are afoot from the Trust to still mark the occasion in some way, early days as yet. Goode news hopefully forthcoming and not for the want of trying! |
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Post by prestonwcfc on Jan 7, 2009 22:55:42 GMT
And there will be a special programme vs Havant I believe
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Post by Tim Munslow on Jan 8, 2009 21:05:39 GMT
I was one of the 15,111 there, having to relay a running commentary to my mother, who - at 5ft nothing - just couldn't see over the heads in front of her.
I can still picture Tommy Skuse's opening goal, although I can't remember the second one at all. And I can still hear the two Liverpudlian fans who stood by me saying "Christ, Liverpool schoolboys play on a better pitch than this". The pitch had been heavily sanded and salted to make it playable. I was at the WRGS and we were given an afternoon off to go to the match.
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Post by greenman on Jan 9, 2009 12:18:54 GMT
Forest Green Rovers were playing in the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League in front of 100 spectators, a sleeping dwarf.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2009 12:22:13 GMT
Had Histon been invented then??
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Post by georgethebassett on Jan 9, 2009 13:37:36 GMT
The club was formed in 1904 as Histon Institute F.C. and played for many years in the Cambridgeshire Football League. John Chivers, the chairman of the major employer in Histon & Impington, the jam company Chivers, helped to found the Histon Institute in 1903, from where the football club has its origins. The company donated a field, then covered in roses, for the club to play on, which is commemorated in the rose on Histon's crest.
In 1960 the club (which by now had dropped the "Institute" from their name) joined the Delphian League, but just three years later this league disbanded. Histon, along with most of the other member clubs, joined the Athenian League.
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Post by cityfan on Jan 9, 2009 18:11:19 GMT
I was one of the 15,111 there Surely that attendance figure is wrong. If you ask around Worcester you will find nearer 100,000 who claim to have been there  . I myself must know of at least 20,000 who attended |
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Post by birdfeeder on Jan 9, 2009 19:01:15 GMT
I was one of the 15,111 there Surely that attendance figure is wrong. If you ask around Worcester you will find nearer 100,000 who claim to have been there . I myself must know of at least 20,000 who attended And I was there Alan but I did not see you?. |
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Post by bobbyg on Jan 9, 2009 22:32:39 GMT
Will there be a special supplement in the Worcester News?
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Post by jupu on Jan 10, 2009 12:17:15 GMT
The Worcester News will be doing a feature next week, on Wednesday or Thursday I think. So will BBC H&W.
There will also be something in the Worcester Standard. Talksport have been in touch and I've provided them with some more information about the game.
As you know I will be devoting as much of the programme as possible to the Liverpool game on 24 January.
It looks like we will be able to get Harry Knowles and Bernard Gosling to come down on 24 January, and there will be other former players coming as well.
Creaner - I've left you a PM - can you get in touch with me? Thanks.
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Post by cityfan on Jan 10, 2009 18:33:34 GMT
Surely that attendance figure is wrong. If you ask around Worcester you will find nearer 100,000 who claim to have been there . I myself must know of at least 20,000 who attended And I was there Alan but I did not see you?. If you were referring to me, firstly my name isn't Alan and secondly, you would not have seen me as I was only 2 years old at the time. So it would be rather silly of me to claim to be there.  |
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Post by BDS on Jan 12, 2009 23:28:06 GMT
"WCCC's first match as a 'first class' county against Yorkshire in 1899" I remember it well. With a bit of forward planning we might have got Liverpool to send a team down for a re-match. Good publicity. WCCC v Liverpool . We could run up a cricket score.... |
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Post by dave on Jan 14, 2009 19:38:45 GMT
By the sounds of it Midlands Today are doing a piece on the anniversary of the game on tomorrow's show. BBC1 from 6.30pm in the Midlands region (sorry Ealing!)
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Post by Bstander on Jan 14, 2009 20:01:50 GMT
Make a note to watch Midlands Today tomorrow ;D
They are running a feature on it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2009 20:47:02 GMT
Poo. Could anyone make a copy? We should keep one for the vaults.
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Post by Bstander on Jan 14, 2009 22:19:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2009 22:26:40 GMT
Cheers Tony.
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Post by michael on Jan 15, 2009 18:24:07 GMT
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Post by Croc on Jan 15, 2009 18:52:57 GMT
The footage shown tonight begs the question that film does still exist.
How much of it is still around - and are there any plans to show it in full?
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Post by jupu on Jan 15, 2009 22:42:25 GMT
The BBC have about 50 seconds worth of footage from the Liverpool game, which I guess means that pretty much all of it was shown tonight.
The same clips were shown on MOTD prior to the Huddersfield game in 2005.
I am trying to find out what other footage exists in the BBC archive, for example I know the Millwall game was filmed. I doubt if it remains, and even if I find out it does, I don't hold out much hope of getting hold of any copies. Even if I did, I believe it would be illlegal to copy it or show it in public!
However, I do know there is some footage in the ITV archive of the FAC game against Aldershot at Birminghan in 1957 that it may be possible to purchase, although it won't come cheap - something like £6 per second!
Some years ago Tony Moore told me he'd seen some film of the Liverpool game that a man from Pershore had shot - I would think in Super 8 so probably not good quality - and it might be possible to trace the source via the Worcester News. I'll ask them.
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Jan 15, 2009 22:49:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2009 8:34:00 GMT
Some years ago Tony Moore told me he'd seen some film of the Liverpool game that a man from Pershore had shot - I would think in Super 8 so probably not good quality - and it might be possible to trace the source via the Worcester News. I'll ask them. That would be the famous Zapruder film, such a shame that it didn't clearly feature the "grassy knoll" aka the Brookside |
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Post by bj on Jan 16, 2009 14:51:08 GMT
I'm sure that there was highlights shown on the equivalent of Match of the Day (was it the Liverpool match or Milwall?). They also interviewed the Chairman and Manager (or was it Eddie Follan?) live in the studio. The interviewer was possibly Peter Dimmock. But there again my aged mind might be playing tricks!
I'm sure The Legend that is Mr Knowles would remember.
The BBC tended to reuse fim tape in those days hence the lack of archive footage.
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Post by jupu on Jan 17, 2009 22:03:25 GMT
It was the Millwall game that was shown on a programme called Sportsview and yes, the chairman Tom Smith was interviewed. But the footage almost certainly no longer exists.
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. I myself must know of at least 20,000 who attended 
