An old program.

[ex_pat_magpie]

In St Ives today when I came across an old 2nd hand shop. Mrs Stan was elsewhere so I went in and found a load of old program's, one of which was Stoke v Newcastle United, Monday 27th March 1967.

Must have been on Sky?

The side was:

Marshall
Craig
Clark
Elliott
McNamee
Iley
Bennett
Noble
Davies
Hilley
Robson

We were third bottom of division 1, Sunderland were 15th.

It reads " never afraid to enter the transfer market in a big way Newcastle have paid out something like £130,000 on new signings in the last five months"

Great eh?

Hard to believe Stan but I was at that game which we won, I think 1-0 and saved our 1st Div status. I had moved to the Midlands, to a village called Chadwick End, 12 miles south of B'ham for four years from 1964 to 68 so there were plenty of 1st Division teams to visit.

[Stanleymag]

Hard to believe Stan but I was at that game which we won, I think 1-0 and saved our 1st Div status. I had moved to the Midlands, to a village called Chadwick End, 12 miles south of B'ham for four years from 1964 to 68 so there were plenty of 1st Division teams to visit.

Funnily enough Pat, I thought of you when I saw it. There's a few players I've heard of. One thing I love about it is how they go about publishing the half time scores.

A 2-1 , refers to program, Blackpool's winning 2-1 against Chelsea.

Class.

[ex_pat_magpie]

Funnily enough Pat, I thought of you when I saw it. There's a few players I've heard of. One thing I love about it is how they go about publishing the half time scores.

A 2-1 , refers to program, Blackpool's winning 2-1 against Chelsea.

Class.

They used to have massive big hand operated score boards, usually sited in the least popular corner of the ground.

These were black, about 20ft square with a gantry behind and as the newspaper reporters got their info the would pass it onto the clubs and an operator on the gantry scaffold behind the boards would put in the info on metal plates. A bit like the judges at ice skating holding up the scores.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=19...w=1298&bih=702

And for further interest.

How about the first floodlights.


https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...-and-brilliant


The Robson on the team was the first Bryan "Pop" Robson who was a Sunderland lad, played for us for years at Centre forward but equally good as inside forward(no 10) or on the wing. We could do with him now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Robson

[sherwoodmag]

McNamee,what an animal,I wouldn't like to have met him up a dark alley.

[ex_pat_magpie]

McNamee,what an animal,I wouldn't like to have met him up a dark alley.

Too true Mick and Jim Iley was also a bit of a handfull too.

[TheBigSausage]

McNamee,what an animal,I wouldn't like to have met him up a dark alley.

hang around in many dark alleys then?

[sherwoodmag]

hang around in many dark alleys then?

If someone offered you outside on Wallsend High Street in the 1960s there was a few dark alleys to go in to keep you away from the cops.

[sherwoodmag]

If I remember rightly Elliot replaced Stan Anderson at Sunderland when he joined us.

After Anderson left us to go to Boro we then signed Elliot from the Mackems.

[ex_pat_magpie]

A remarkable thing is that although all of the team were British, five of them almost a half were locals.

Frank Clark, Dave Elliott, Albert Bennett (retired soon after because of injuries), Peter Noble and the mighty Pop Robson.

Bobby Moncur, usual captain was out with an injury.