Matt Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 A bowler hat, a flat cap and a trilby. What more could any team photo need? They've got more hats than a haberdashery, one of them clearly is an Ecky-Thump Grand Master. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyGortonsMatches Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) A bowler hat, a flat cap and a trilby. What more could any team photo need?Gurners...?? Edited August 8, 2014 by AndyGortonsMatches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 something at the very back of my mind is telling me I've seen that photo before and it was at White Hart Lane. Or Goodison Park. Or or somewhere else As for the 1914-15 season - I have my suspicions that some of them may have thrown the league. There was a fair bit of dodgyness back in those days - including a game the perpetrators got found out on that season, the players fixing Man United v Liverpool. Or maybe we just went to pieces at the end of the season. Still, I have my suspicions - I've been asking the lads through the medium of a ouija board but they're all very tight lipped about it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 How many pints did Hodson have...? not as many as Gregan obviousley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singe Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 There were no League games this week, the season started on Sept 2nd. Am trying to find any pre season games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 something of a shame our club's zenith came at a time when able young men should have been joining up in support of plucky little Belgium so as to be machine gunned by Fritzy Not this week but they had a public practice match between the firsts & reserves on Wednesday August 26th 1914. Apparently it was their second such offering (courtesy of the Evening Despatch, which just landed on my doormat 100 years late. Effers). The MEN - similarly late - of the previous Saturday has Oldham Athletic:Whites 4 Blue & Whites 1 Perhaps fannying about to other towns for friendlies was frowned upon in the circumstances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boys in Blue Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Just read an article about this in When Saturday Comes. Author suggests that Southern teams & the Clergy were against the league continuing but most Northerners disagreed. Only 4 of the 40 clubs in the league came from South of the Midlands. Shame we didn't win it but there is a chance that a lot of games were thrown as most players stopped getting paid midway through the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singe Posted September 7, 2014 Author Share Posted September 7, 2014 Well what a week....First, opening game of the seasonWeds 2nd Sept and an historic win at Old Trafford 3-1, followed by a 5-3 win at SportsDirect.com Park oop sorry just teasing Boundary Park against local rivals Bolton Wanderers. Sitting pretty top of the league with an 8-4 F-A. Though it was ordered differently in those days. Our GA was 2. We may have had the top scorer in the league too....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Well what a week.... First, opening game of the season Weds 2nd Sept and an historic win at Old Trafford 3-1, .! How many did we take? And, did we "do 'em"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngen Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 How many did we take? And, did we "do 'em"? We held the Stretford End for the first half hour, before they regrouped & things got propa nawty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Og Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 We held the Stretford End for the first half hour, before they regrouped & things got propa nawty I strongly suspect that a hoolie from a century ago woudl give today's version a good hiding, and the world was no stranger to themL: "What is the first recorded incident of football violence or hooliganism? If you're talking about the modern game, then look no further than the 1880s and, in particular, Preston North End. In 1885, Preston's 5-0 friendly win over Aston Villa sent the supporters - who were described by press reports of the time as "howling roughs" - into a frenzy. The two teams were pelted with stones, attacked with sticks, punched, kicked and covered in spittle. One of the Preston players was beaten so severely that he lost consciousness. The following year Preston fans notched up another first - fighting Queens Park fans in a railway station. Another milestone of sorts was reached in 1905 when several Preston supporters were tried for hooliganism, including a "drunk and disorderly" 70-year-old woman, following their match against Blackburn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 am I right in thinking that I've read somewhere that the Villa keeper was hit by a bottle when we played them in the 1913 Semi Final? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Well what a week.... First, opening game of the season Weds 2nd Sept and an historic win at Old Trafford 3-1, followed by a 5-3 win at SportsDirect.com Park oop sorry just teasing Boundary Park against local rivals Bolton Wanderers. Sitting pretty top of the league with an 8-4 F-A. Though it was ordered differently in those days. Our GA was 2. We may have had the top scorer in the league too....! All 8 goals in the Bolton game came in a 37 minute spell.Attendance 12000. "Sensational Play" according to the Manchester Courier On September 4th a letter in the Manchester Evening News asked: Has not a man as much right to spend a very short period of his spare time at a football match on Saturday afternoons as another man and the bookies have to spend all week on the racecourse? (The Editor said YES) a tad more controversial letter in the MEN on September 5th from 'White Feather" Sir - Why stop at football crowds and tennis players? Why not send the recruiting sergeant around to the theatre, music hall, public houses, libraries, swimming baths, churches, Sunday Schools, and chapels? I would also suggest that when the recruiting officer walks on the football field he be armed with literature stating how many Crimean heroes ended their days in our national workhouses. Neither King, nor country, nor the political parasites who run the country will require the common soldier's services when the swag (if any) is to be divided. Until they can show me how by giving my life away or losing my limbs I am going to benefit the class to which I belong I am staying at home. wonder what he did when conscription started? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 White Feather would be glad to see how much progress there's been if he was still around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 White Feather would be glad to see how much progress there's been if he was still around.He'd have been able to opt out of WW2 for the reasons stated whereas it would have got him shot in WW1, surely that is progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 thought it was fairly ballsy of the MEN to print that in the first place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Og Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Why not send the recruiting sergeant around to the theatre, music hall, public houses, libraries, swimming baths, churches, Sunday Schools, and chapels? So Oldham didn't have a cinema or a bowling alley back then either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 thought it was fairly ballsy of the MEN to print that in the first placeNot really. It was set up as a radical paper. There was far more diversity of opinion in the press then than now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Not really. It was set up as a radical paper. There was far more diversity of opinion in the press then than now. must confess I knew nothing of the origin of the MEN. I know the Manchester Guardian was obviously a nest of commy liberal pinko british hating baby eating mo'fo's but not the MEN. Thought their spell of ownership was a more recent thing. Now it all makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 He'd have been able to opt out of WW2 for the reasons stated whereas it would have got him shot in WW1, surely that is progress. I meant to quote the "political parasites" & sharing the swag bits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 must confess I knew nothing of the origin of the MEN. I know the Manchester Guardian was obviously a nest of commy liberal pinko british hating baby eating mo'fo's but not the MEN. Thought their spell of ownership was a more recent thing. Now it all makes senseThe Guardian (and I presume the MEN was still genuinely liberal in those days before the term was stolen. It would have supported free trade, non intervention abroad, legal equality. Lefty yes but not in a pinko sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 The Guardian (and I presume the MEN was still genuinely liberal in those days before the term was stolen. It would have supported free trade, non intervention abroad, legal equality. Lefty yes but not in a pinko sense. pipe down you. When the war's over then the Freikorps will be round to pay you AND the Guardian a visit. Oh, hold on. Got the wrong country. Never mind me, as you were Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 pipe down you. When the war's over then the Freikorps will be round to pay you AND the Guardian a visit. Oh, hold on. Got the wrong country. Never mind me, as you were I never accused you of any form of liberalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I never accused you of any form of liberalism. that's what they all say. In the beginning. A few hours later and they change their tune, oh yes. Aaaaaaaaaaanyway, who's up next Singe? Knocked off United & the Trotters. Things looking up by jove! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singe Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Sorry, I feel bad about this. Soory Help Shiny, the next one as not good L 4-1 A to B'Stard Rovers. 12th Sept. We were 8th with The Wednesday top. 19th Sept was a2-0 victory v Notts County, who were bottom of the league. We went 4th, but only 4 games in. 26th Sept was a fine 2-1 win at Roker Park. That took us 3rd with Man City and The Wednesday above. The a big one; 5-2 at BP, against the mighty Wednesday , who were top of the League. We went 2nd on 10pts with only City on 11 pts above us. 10th Oct next and we drew 0-0 with WBA at the Hawthorns. We dropped back to 3rd. 17th Oct A vital game that was to affect the season. A 1-1 draw with Everton. We stayed 3rd, but Everton were 4th. 2 pts off top still 24th Oct next up. We will be entertaining Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. It will also be the day of the 2nd ever league local derby in Bradford; where Bradford City play Bradford Park Avenue. Edited October 23, 2014 by singe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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