28-09-2023, 15:36
(This post was last modified: 28-09-2023, 16:23 by theo_luddite.)
Your mention of The Texaco Cup got me going back to my school days of 1971, to The Watney Cup and when the mighty Halifax Town had been the highest scorers in then Division 3 (and if I'm right were the last 3rd placed team not to get promoted or involved in later play-off's as only the top two got promoted at the time, though that wasn't this season). This was a pre-season competition and teams qualified by being the top two scoring sides in their division the previous season (that hadn't otherwise won a title, qualified for Europe or been promoted).
They played the then really mighty Manchester United, (George Best, Bobby Charlton, some up and coming kid called Denis Law, Alex Stepney and all that) and beat them 2-1. So mighty, Man U had finished 8th, but only Champions Arsenal and Runners-up L666s had scored more goals.
'Fax Manager at the time, Geore Kirby took the plaudits, but his head coach was some guy called Mick Buxton, the brains behind the move for the first goal, which he later used to devastating effect as Town's Manager when we won the old 4th Division. Malcolm Brown cross, delivered to the head of Ian Robins, goal. Worked almost every time.
The Shaymen lost in the next round at home to some team call West Bromwich Albion. Who they then? Well they'd finished 17th on 35 points, two places below some other club called, er Huddersfield Town.
Innovators to the end, The Shaymen were the first professional club to wear shirt numbers on the back and front of their shirts. Where would they put them now? They said it was to help see the numbers on TV but I think Kirby couldn't see his hands in front of his face and he did it for his own benefit.
For some reason, both sides wore 2nd kits, but as lots of folks still saw the outside world in black and white back then, the traditional blue and white of Haifax and red and white of Man U would have looked more or less the same to them on the tellybox.
Back in the day there were probably more Man U fans living in Halifax than Shay fans (probably still are) and many queued for tickets at the Shay ticket office. Those I went to school with were not happy bunnies on the Monday I can tell you.
PS - well done Snoots, it could take whilst kick off Saturday to read all that
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They played the then really mighty Manchester United, (George Best, Bobby Charlton, some up and coming kid called Denis Law, Alex Stepney and all that) and beat them 2-1. So mighty, Man U had finished 8th, but only Champions Arsenal and Runners-up L666s had scored more goals.
'Fax Manager at the time, Geore Kirby took the plaudits, but his head coach was some guy called Mick Buxton, the brains behind the move for the first goal, which he later used to devastating effect as Town's Manager when we won the old 4th Division. Malcolm Brown cross, delivered to the head of Ian Robins, goal. Worked almost every time.
The Shaymen lost in the next round at home to some team call West Bromwich Albion. Who they then? Well they'd finished 17th on 35 points, two places below some other club called, er Huddersfield Town.
Innovators to the end, The Shaymen were the first professional club to wear shirt numbers on the back and front of their shirts. Where would they put them now? They said it was to help see the numbers on TV but I think Kirby couldn't see his hands in front of his face and he did it for his own benefit.
For some reason, both sides wore 2nd kits, but as lots of folks still saw the outside world in black and white back then, the traditional blue and white of Haifax and red and white of Man U would have looked more or less the same to them on the tellybox.
Back in the day there were probably more Man U fans living in Halifax than Shay fans (probably still are) and many queued for tickets at the Shay ticket office. Those I went to school with were not happy bunnies on the Monday I can tell you.
PS - well done Snoots, it could take whilst kick off Saturday to read all that
4. Barry McGill = Bill McGarry
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