Memory Lane 50 Years ago Today- 1971-72 Promotion Season - Wednesday 3 May 1972 - We finish as runners up! - Southend United 2 Gillingham 2

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Keith.F ..what a legend...always the end off a Leigh Comm joke...good bloke...as you lads sang at Roots Hall ( going to
to Brentford away71-,72),,,FRANKLIN IS OUR LEADER"
Would not change a second from those days

His still alive today, now aged 70 & lives in Westcliff. And still as 'daft as a brush'!.

 

[LCBB72]

Keith.F ..what a legend...always the end off a Leigh Comm joke...good bloke...as you lads sang at Roots Hall ( going to
to Brentford away71-,72),,,FRANKLIN IS OUR LEADER"
Would not change a second from those days

He could more than handle himself , as I saw a few times .

 

[ozzie]

Last footnight !! maybe...but tonight,6 Sept 1972, we Super Blues played that other "Blues"...Southend v Chelsea..another night never to be forgotten.
IIRC,we were nearly as good as Chelsea,only being beaten 1-0.And CFC had a real good team.
The Pak/ North bank were FANtastic,one of the greatest ever nights standing there along with the Villa and QPR cup games.
I cannot remember who we beat to play CFC though

 

[Swiss Tony]

Just a note...but today 50 years ago....inbetween the seasons,the highpoint was Essex week at Chalkwall Park.
Today we played Middlesex in the Sunday league..JPL or what ever it was called.We always got a big crowd in.
As usual a crowd of North Bankers stood together and watched the game.
During the game,the late great KEITH BOYCE got a hattrick.When he bowled the next ball after it (4th ball)..the Msex batsman took no chances and tapped the ball foreward...even before the crowd could start to applaud KB....our mate and legend...DAVIE CR&&P shouted out....
COME ON BOYCIE PULL YOU WEIGHT....and the whole crowd who heard him burst out laughing...a TOP lad David.Cr&mp

What a cricketer Keith Boyce was.RIP legend.

 

[LCBB72]

Last footnight !! maybe...but tonight,6 Sept 1972, we Super Blues played that other "Blues"...Southend v Chelsea..another night never to be forgotten.
IIRC,we were nearly as good as Chelsea,only being beaten 1-0.And CFC had a real good team.
The Pak/ North bank were FANtastic,one of the greatest ever nights standing there along with the Villa and QPR cup games.
I cannot remember who we beat to play CFC though

We beat Aldershot in the League Cup 1st round to set the Chelsea game up . As you say it was one of the greatest nights at Roots Hall with Chelsea relieved to hear the final whistle , Chelsea scored after 16 minutes and after that Southend battered them . Every Southend player was a hero and it would be unfair to single any out . I do think that had Gary Moore not been out injured he would of tipped the game in Southends favour .

 

[Zeuss]

We beat Aldershot in the League Cup 1st round to set the Chelsea game up . As you say it was one of the greatest nights at Roots Hall with Chelsea relieved to hear the final whistle , Chelsea scored after 16 minutes and after that Southend battered them . Every Southend player was a hero and it would be unfair to single any out . I do think that had Gary Moore not been out injured he would of tipped the game in Southends favour .

Those of us there will surely remember Bill Garner’s superb performance that night.
I think I’m right in saying Chelsea bought him from us the very next day for an enormous fee—£100,000.

 

[Whispering Bob]

We beat Aldershot in the League Cup 1st round to set the Chelsea game up . As you say it was one of the greatest nights at Roots Hall with Chelsea relieved to hear the final whistle , Chelsea scored after 16 minutes and after that Southend battered them . Every Southend player was a hero and it would be unfair to single any out . I do think that had Gary Moore not been out injured he would of tipped the game in Southends favour .

I mainly recall Chelsea’s stunning strip that night (red, white and green) Chris Garland’s hair and the Chelsea mob bothering the North Bank.

 

[tallboyblue]

And the fedora.

 

[Chrisb]

Those of us there will surely remember Bill Garner’s superb performance that night.
I think I’m right in saying Chelsea bought him from us the very next day for an enormous fee—£100,000.

Remember it well - gutted to lose Bill though.

 

[LCBB72]

Those of us there will surely remember Bill Garner’s superb performance that night.
I think I’m right in saying Chelsea bought him from us the very next day for an enormous fee—£100,000.

Those of us there will surely remember Bill Garner’s superb performance that night.
I think I’m right in saying Chelsea bought him from us the very next day for an enormous fee—£100,000.

We must not forget how Brian Albeson kept Peter Osgood in his pocket all night long .

 

[LCBB72]

50 years ago today '16/9/72 Southend played down Bournmouth and lost 2-0 . After the game a dozen Leigh Com Chaps were surrounded in a garage in Bournmouth by about 80/90 Bournmouth Boys , what happend next was one of Leigh Coms greatest escapade .

 

[philipferdinand707@gmail.]

Dear ozzie,les was a really great lady from a difficult place

Great lad and Roy his brother

 

[tsbl2000]

50 years ago today '16/9/72 Southend played down Bournmouth and lost 2-0 . After the game a dozen Leigh Com Chaps were surrounded in a garage in Bournmouth by about 80/90 Bournmouth Boys , what happend next was one of Leigh Coms greatest escapade .

I remember we gave Malcolm MacDonald a load of stick during the game. The Away Club coach had a brick chucked at the window as we left their ground. Fortunately I missed the Leigh Coms fracas!

 

[tsbl2000]

Those of us there will surely remember Bill Garner’s superb performance that night.
I think I’m right in saying Chelsea bought him from us the very next day for an enormous fee—£100,000.

But for Peter Bonetti playing a blinder we would have won. Very sad to see Bill go to Chelsea.

 

[tsbl2000]

I don’t think I’ll be treading on anyone’s toes when I remind/inform folk that we concluded our famous 1971/2 promotion season with a well-deserved benefit match for Tony Bentley,who spent a full 10 seasons with us and,unlike someone else who springs to mind now,.was a very good right-back.
His former club Stoke City, mid-table top division,had just won the League Cup to qualify for Europe! They sent their full squad inc. Gordon Banks,George Eastham etc. to face ours and triumphed 4-2.
Scorers: Billy Best,Terry Johnson and John Ritchie 3,Jimmy Greenhoff.
Peter Goy, R I P, took the yellow flag.

That was a great game. I still have the match programme somewhere.

 

[tsbl2000]

Yes I remember that match well.
60 over match and it was my first County Match.
I was told it would be an all day event.
The mighty Essex had Middlesex bowled out for 41,
Essex got 43 in the blink of an eye at it was all over by about 1.30 in the afternoon and I think they had only started at about 10.30 !
I was hooked.
I always remember the "Great Boyce" and his Sixes at Chalkwell Park smashing local shops windows.

Boycie was my favourite Essex player at that time. I remember those sixes too and I'm sure I saw him get a hattrick at Chalkwell Park, though I can't remember against whom.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

 

[cerbera45]

Yes I remember that match well.
60 over match and it was my first County Match.
I was told it would be an all day event.
The mighty Essex had Middlesex bowled out for 41,
Essex got 43 in the blink of an eye at it was all over by about 1.30 in the afternoon and I think they had only started at about 10.30 !
I was hooked.
I always remember the "Great Boyce" and his Sixes at Chalkwell Park smashing local shops windows.

wasn't there a car showroom along there?

 

[ozzie]

Those were the days my friend,thought they would never end...now in the Div 5 !!..and an also run,so sad

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

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