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FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES
from my personal collection
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MY OLDEST TOTTENHAM PROGRAMME
Wolves v Spurs 1964
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WREXHAM F.C CONNECTIONS
Southend Utd v Workington 1965
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Personal note; The Southend team was managed by Penmon born Alvan Williams, who became manager at Wrexham in 1967. He took Terry Bradbury and Ray Smith with him. He also appointed John Neal as his first team trainer. John later became Wrexham managed, laying the foundations for Arfon Griffiths to take the team into the then Second Division of the Football League, in 1977/78
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REPRESENTATIVE MATCH
Arsenal v Brazil XI 1965
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LONDON'S FIRST BIG SCREEN
SOCCER PROMOTION
Workington v Millwall 1966
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This Football League Division Three match was played at Borough Park, Workington, on January 28th 1966, and relayed to The Den, Millwall, for 'away supporters' to see the match 'at home'.
This is the Millwall 'away' programme.
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MY FIRST LEAGUE CUP TIE
Sheffield United v Burnley 1966
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This was my second first class game. The first Football League match I ever saw was the previous season, also at Bramhall Lane, against Fulham. Alas, no programme!
Bramhall Lane in those days had an open side to the pitch, as it was also used to play cricket!
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CENTENARY &
GRAND CHALLENGE MATCH
Queen's Park v British Amateur Select
Celtic v Tottenham 1967
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TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR F.C.
F.A. Cup Winners 1966-67
Back row; Jennings, England, Knowles, Clayton, Mullery, Kinnear
Front row; Robertson, Greaves, Gilzean, Mackay, Venables, Saul, Jones
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MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL
FOOTBALL MATCH
Wales v Northern Ireland 1968
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Personal note; My first International game. Played at Wrexham, Wales won 2v0. Pat Jennings, in my opinion, the best goalkeeper of all time, was magnificent.
Daily Post wrote; A major reason why Wales did not get more goals than the two scored by Ron Rees (75 minutes) and Wyn Davies (87) was a superb display by Pat Jennings, the Irish goalkeeper.
He earned the 'Man of the Match' rating from Welsh team manager, Dave Bowen. 'But for him, we would have had at least five goals'.
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MY FIRST TOTTENHAM MATCH
Manchester Utd v Tottenham 1968
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Personal note; My father took my cousin Geraint and I to see Spurs for the first time. They lost 3v1 - Old Trafford went quiet when Spurs scored!
After the game, in the car park, I approached Mike England, one of my heroes and asked for his autograph. He told me in no uncertain terms where to go!
Fortunately, Jimmy Hill was on hand to restore my faith in human nature, and he willingly supplied his autograph!
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However, there is a happy ending to the Mike England story........... some 32 years later, in the year 2000 a colleague of mine, Ian Evans, a Spurs fan, who was well aware of my Mike England autograph story, saw the former Spurs and Wales Captain on the same flight as him.
Ian kindly obtained Mike's autograph for me, although he did not relate the whole story to him!
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"This could be the last time...."
sang the Rolling Stones..... and it was!
EUROPEAN NATIONS CUP
Quarter Final
Wales v Yugoslavia 1976
Wales have failed to 'qualify' for the finals of an
international competition since then.
Back row: Toshack, England, Evans, J. Roberts, Lloyd, Davies, Dwyer, Lewis, D. Roberts, Jones
Front Row; Dr Jones, Griffiths, Thomas, Harris, James, Yorath, Mike Smith (Manager), Flynn, Mahoney, Phillips, Page, Lea (Asst. Manager) |
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