07-06-2022, 02:25
June 7:
On this date in 1962, Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town played in the 1962 World Cup for England. This was the third group game, the final one and all England needed to do to progress was get one point.
As with all the Group 4 matches, this was played at the Estadio El Teniente in Rancagua, Chile. Hungary had qualified and an England defeat would see Argentina through, after they drew 0-0 with the Hungarians the day before. This was in the days before all final group matches had to be played at the same time.
So a point was all that was needed and that's just what they got with Ray and his fellow defenders keeping a clean sheet in a goal less draw.
Should Walter Winterbottom select Ray for the quarter final match, it will be against Brazil on the 10th of June.
![[Image: N5geXof.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/N5geXof.jpg)
A former Town manager was born on this date in 1949. Lou Macari, born in Edinburgh and is 73 today. His time at Town was the end of his football career, coming firstly as assistant to Steve Bruce. When the flat nosed f*ckwit got sacked, it was Lou who took over with the team at the bottom of the 2nd Division or whatever it was called then. He tried but couldn't stop relegation, but did get us to the 3rd Division Play Offs in the next season.
He also got us to the area final of the LDV Vans Trophy, but we lost that to Blackpool and then the Play Off against Brentford. And despite all these near misses, the club was on it's arse. We didn't know at the time but it came out later that Lou was financing coaches and hotels for the away trips out of his own money.
How did the board repay such generosity? They sacked him and replaced him with Mick Wadsworth.
So Lou finished with football, went back to Stoke, where he'd had two spells as manager. He'd had his fair share of tragedy in his life, his mother and then one of his three sons, committed suicide. And so Lou worked with Stoke-on-Trent council to set up The Macari Centre. This was a home for the homeless and during the Covid pandemic, he moved it all into a brand new warehouse.
What a nice bloke.
If you want to read a bit more of Lou's great work, have a click here.....
http://macari-foundation.co.uk/
![[Image: 4OB6bNl.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/4OB6bNl.jpg)
On this date in 1962, Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town played in the 1962 World Cup for England. This was the third group game, the final one and all England needed to do to progress was get one point.
As with all the Group 4 matches, this was played at the Estadio El Teniente in Rancagua, Chile. Hungary had qualified and an England defeat would see Argentina through, after they drew 0-0 with the Hungarians the day before. This was in the days before all final group matches had to be played at the same time.
So a point was all that was needed and that's just what they got with Ray and his fellow defenders keeping a clean sheet in a goal less draw.
Should Walter Winterbottom select Ray for the quarter final match, it will be against Brazil on the 10th of June.
A former Town manager was born on this date in 1949. Lou Macari, born in Edinburgh and is 73 today. His time at Town was the end of his football career, coming firstly as assistant to Steve Bruce. When the flat nosed f*ckwit got sacked, it was Lou who took over with the team at the bottom of the 2nd Division or whatever it was called then. He tried but couldn't stop relegation, but did get us to the 3rd Division Play Offs in the next season.
He also got us to the area final of the LDV Vans Trophy, but we lost that to Blackpool and then the Play Off against Brentford. And despite all these near misses, the club was on it's arse. We didn't know at the time but it came out later that Lou was financing coaches and hotels for the away trips out of his own money.
How did the board repay such generosity? They sacked him and replaced him with Mick Wadsworth.
So Lou finished with football, went back to Stoke, where he'd had two spells as manager. He'd had his fair share of tragedy in his life, his mother and then one of his three sons, committed suicide. And so Lou worked with Stoke-on-Trent council to set up The Macari Centre. This was a home for the homeless and during the Covid pandemic, he moved it all into a brand new warehouse.
What a nice bloke.
If you want to read a bit more of Lou's great work, have a click here.....
http://macari-foundation.co.uk/
![[Image: 2ZJuVRk.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/2ZJuVRk.gif)