21-07-2015, 23:29
(This post was last modified: 21-07-2015, 23:31 by silverbaggie.)
(20-07-2015, 23:15)Ska Wrote: No worries. I hope they keep it available permanently, because it's such a great snapshot of the past. The Black Country landscape, all the things which have changed in football, and a few things which haven't! (Also had ter loff at the line "Tipton boasts little in the way of entertainment." Obviously the days of shopping-trolley-bobsledding were still to come)
(20-07-2015, 23:13)silverbaggie Wrote: Can you imagine todays footballers agreeing to train in those conditions..
If I recall correctly, it was only twelve months or so until many of the blokes featured in the film actually did refuse to train in those conditions, and promptly held the infamous "tracksuit rebellion". In that wide shot outside the training ground, you can even see the bonk where Jimmy Hagan went and tipped his car into the cut!
Quite right Sa'd.
It was in December 1963 that ten players asked for a transfer because they didn't like the Manager Jimmy Hagan.
Alec Jackson who was already on the transfer list then joined the other ten players on strike.
The strike lasted 10 days and then the players walked out again and were joined by another ten players because they weren't allowed to wear track suits to train in the freezing cold weather.
Some days I'm top dog, most days I'm just the lamp post.