ARTICLE: Favourites after win at Birmingham
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ARTICLE: Favourites after win at Birmingham
Back to 1960 and now just five days to go with this win
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https://www.uptheclarets.com/favourites ... birmingham
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https://www.uptheclarets.com/favourites ... birmingham
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I can only imagine the tension of that game. We've got used to it since for a variety of reasons but we keep going back for more. How invaluable was Trevor Meredith proving? Someone of the class of John Connelly missing must have been such a blow but he was more than adequately replaced.
Patience is the way forward currently so I'll just have to wait and see how this story concludes. Really enjoyed these articles.
Patience is the way forward currently so I'll just have to wait and see how this story concludes. Really enjoyed these articles.
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I’m guessing there’s some journalistic license been used with that Fred Elliot quote
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Cheers CT. I googled Trevor Meredith for info and discovered he never got a Champions medal, they didn’t back then. Now they give the tea lady one. We need a campaign to get Trevor his medal before it’s too late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Meredith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Meredith
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Wouldn’t have qualified for one under the rules and I believe those rules still apply although they have recently been relaxed for sub goalkeepers.Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:20 pmCheers CT. I googled Trevor Meredith for info and discovered he never got a Champions medal, they didn’t back then. Now they give the tea lady one. We need a campaign to get Trevor his medal before it’s too late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Meredith
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During the close season he was often seen in Haslingden. He was going out with a.girl from the town and I think someone confirmed.on here some time ago that they actually got married.
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An excellent report plus local history, my parents bought me a Kodak Brownie camera around that time but it didn't lead to a lifetime of picture taking! Poverty was still prevalent in Burnley given the poor woman pushed into stealing from her own gas meter to buy food. Did the Birmingham fans celebrate on the pitch to spite neighbours Wolves?
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I think CleggHall makes a very relevant point here. This was only 15 years after the war ended. Poverty everywhere in the country and it wasn't going away at all for many. I was/am so grateful for my dad taking me to matches on the bus from Rossendale during times of hardship.CleggHall wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 2:51 pmAn excellent report plus local history, my parents bought me a Kodak Brownie camera around that time but it didn't lead to a lifetime of picture taking! Poverty was still prevalent in Burnley given the poor woman pushed into stealing from her own gas meter to buy food. Did the Birmingham fans celebrate on the pitch to spite neighbours Wolves?
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Agreed Silky, although I didn't realise it at the time, money was tight for most families and the trip to Turf Moor to see world class, free-flowing football was a tonic and escape.Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 3:58 pmPoverty everywhere in the country and it wasn't going away at all for many. I was/am so grateful for my dad taking me to matches on the bus from Rossendale during times of hardship.
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I'd just turned 8 when we won the league. I didn't attend every home.match that season but went to quite a few. Like.yourself.I just.took for granted that we could afford.to attend. And again, as you say, how privileged I was for that visit to Turf Moor to be a part of my.early years.
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I don’t think as kids we realised how difficult things might have been. Not football related but when I was 12 I went on a school trip to West Germany and my mum and dad must have had to make some tremendous sacrifices to afford it.
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It's agony just to read the articles...
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Completely different style of writing than your normal articles, Tony.
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Agreed but it's a sign of good writing building up the tension.
Also reflects the pessimism and glass half empty mentality of some of us!
Connelly injury and absence could have proved costly but thankfully Trevor Meredith stepped up to the plate.
Pilky not noted for his goalscoring (I think) but popped in a few crucial ones.
Also reflects the pessimism and glass half empty mentality of some of us!
Connelly injury and absence could have proved costly but thankfully Trevor Meredith stepped up to the plate.
Pilky not noted for his goalscoring (I think) but popped in a few crucial ones.
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Agree...we Clarets tend to look at the downside of any situation.
Dyches 'one mans injury is anothers opportunity' was certainly true for Trevor Meredith...and we're all grateful he was successful
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Sick with agony... If it's unbearable now, what was it like then?
I admit that during the last promotion to the PL, I had to spend the time between matches in bed, I couldn't stand the time in between.
I admit that during the last promotion to the PL, I had to spend the time between matches in bed, I couldn't stand the time in between.
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Re: ARTICLE: Favourites after win at Birmingham
Seriously why does this board keep peddling this historic rubbish.
Jesus the coffin dodgers on this board need to stop dwelling in past.
This board has become a haven for backwards looking marxists and whingeing oxygen stealers.
Most of us don't remember these "glory days" or tuberculosis, polio and the leather footballs.
Start posting some relevant stuff on the modern game not trotting out this historic garbage
FFS DTC
Jesus the coffin dodgers on this board need to stop dwelling in past.
This board has become a haven for backwards looking marxists and whingeing oxygen stealers.
Most of us don't remember these "glory days" or tuberculosis, polio and the leather footballs.
Start posting some relevant stuff on the modern game not trotting out this historic garbage
FFS DTC
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Which historic would you prefer?
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OK, how about considering that Hawk Eye at Wimbledon is a computer generated thumbs up or down lie for the in-time betting syndicates, just like 'Same old Dial Square, always semaphoring' (Nike ball in Arsenal away strip colours).
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Play all you like, but gov.club gov.uk runs the league.