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TV Highlights Southend United v Bristol Rovers - 1952
- Thread starter Uncle Leo
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Ex-Member1
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Lovely stuff, thanks. Football hasn't changed at all! COYBB
Gt Yarmouth Shrimper
President⭐⭐🦐
Spiffing find old chap. Goalkeeper came in for a bit of stick there.:nope:
WickfordShrimper
President
Excellent :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
AndyT
Lord of the Reedy River
I'm sure it was.
I went a couple of times to greyhound racing there in the late 70's.
Jam_Man
Life President
Notice how people wore ties.
No co-incidence we are a bunch of scruffy herberts and get lower crowds.
WickfordShrimper
President
Some nice gentle shoves on the goalies
Nice side tackle too….
must have used all the stretchers up in the war
Nice side tackle too….
must have used all the stretchers up in the war
DoDTS
The PL League Boss⭐⭐🦐
I was born at 6.00 a.m. on Thursday 31st January 1952 in an upstairs flat in Maldon Road, Southend, opposite the Stadium. Two days later, before the cup tie. The Bristol Rovers fans started to arrive in the early morning, as they got off their coaches in Maldon Road they started to sing their theme song "Goodnight Irene", at which my enraged father stormed downstairs and yelled "Will you shut up, my wife has just had a baby".
Here's a bit of my historical stuff, on the build up, the match, local and national news:
As soon as the draw was announced Bristol coach firms began booking large parties of supporters for the trip to Southend. British Railways are also arranging special train facilities and there is a possibility of the gate record being smashed. Bristol Rovers have one of the largest contingents of supporters travelling to away games, they requested 8,000 tickets but will get their official share of 700 only. United management have decided not to make the Bristol Rovers cup game all ticket match.
On Saturday the stand tickets for the cup-tie with Bristol Rovers go on sale at the Stadium. Their sale will be in the hands of United Supporters’ Club officials. Business will commence at 1.15 p.m. when the turnstiles will open for the United Reserves-Brighton Reserves combination cup game. For the Bristol game it has been decided to open the gates at noon as five special trains from Bristol will arrive just before mid-day and Rovers are expected to bring at least 8,000 spectators. Agreement has yet to be reached on the colours the two clubs will play in. This will be left to the F.A. to settle. Bristol wanted to bring their own band but Southend’s musicians are quite capable of playing “Good-night Irene” the Rovers signature tune and not forgetting our own little ditty “All pull together”
The semi final for the World Snooker Championship between Fred Davis and Jack Rea of Belfast which was to have taken place at the Kursaal has been transferred to Wellington in Shropshire. Reason for this, the Kursaal say is the expense involved in having all the tickets printed. Inland revenue insist that a ticket be printed for every seat at every session which amounts to some 18,000 tickets costing £60.
Trouble started when supporters who had queued for several hours at the Stadium came away disappointed. Many of them besieged the offices of the club in an effort to tell the directors what they thought of the arrangements. Many who queued had no intention of seeing the Reserves match but paid for admission intending to leave as soon as they had obtained their tickets. They left their cars parked on the roadside only to find they had been reported for parking by the Police. A supporter from Beaumont Gardens states that when he lined up there were approximately 70 to 100 people in front of him. On passing through the turnstiles he was surprised to find nearly treble that number for season ticket holders (already in possession of one ticket) were passed through the turnstile and allowed to jump the queue. A Westbourne Grove man wrote “I entered the ground at 1.45 p.m. my entrance fee of 2s 3d was accepted without a word of explanation or hint that the tickets had nearly all gone.
AN APOLOGY The Directors and management wish to tender their apology for the unfortunate breakdown in arrangements made for the distribution of tickets last Saturday. Certain unexpected circumstances developed for which the organisers were unprepared, and these caused misunderstanding and confusion. From the Southend v Bristol Rovers programme.
F.A.Cup Round 4
Saturday 2nd February 1952
Southend United 2-1 Bristol Rovers.
The Blues fought their way through to the fifth round of the F.A.Cup but the match was in no way a classic football match, in fact there had been far more football science in the Southampton cup-tie than in this match. The game was a fight to the finish and what a finish it was, with Jack French putting paid to Rovers hopes nine minutes from time. The Rovers fans were hushed. The strains of “Goodnight Irene” which was sung virtually non-stop since they took the lead two minutes after the interval, died away and were not heard again. Bristol had been unfortunate to lose as United equalised why a player was injured and receiving attention on the side of the pitch. Both goals had narrow escapes but the first half remained goalless. Two minutes into the second half Rovers took the lead when Scannell came out to take the ball but he was beaten to the ball. After this Rovers were spurred onto greater efforts, but with a player short Loughran placed a drop shot into the goalmouth and Leslie Stubbs was on hand to head the equaliser in the 63rd minute. The excitement in the stand became intense, the Rovers player returned but was a passenger on the wing. Nine minutes from time Lawler lobbed the ball into the goalmouth and French burst through the defence and drove the ball into the net. Team: Scannell; Loughran and Anderson; French, Sheard and Lawler; Sibley, McAlinden, Wakefield, Grant and Stubbs.
No.29 Div 3 (South)
Wednesday 6th February 1952
Bristol City 6-0 Southend United.
After holding Bristol to a single goal lead at the interval they were completely overrun in the second half and finished six goals adrift. All five of the home forwards scored and the wonder was that they didn’t reach double figures, on the other hand Stubbs had two clear cut chances but in each case he shot straight at the goalkeeper. Team: Morton; Loughran and Anderson; French, Sheard and Lawler; Sibley, McAlinden, Grant, Thompson and Stubbs.
6th February 1952 King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House, Norfolk. The official announcement said the King retired in his usual health, but passed away in his sleep and was found dead in bead at 7.30 a.m. He was 56 and was known to have been suffering with a lung condition. Princess Elizabeth who is hunting in Kenya immediately becomes Queen at the age of 25.
Here's a bit of my historical stuff, on the build up, the match, local and national news:
As soon as the draw was announced Bristol coach firms began booking large parties of supporters for the trip to Southend. British Railways are also arranging special train facilities and there is a possibility of the gate record being smashed. Bristol Rovers have one of the largest contingents of supporters travelling to away games, they requested 8,000 tickets but will get their official share of 700 only. United management have decided not to make the Bristol Rovers cup game all ticket match.
On Saturday the stand tickets for the cup-tie with Bristol Rovers go on sale at the Stadium. Their sale will be in the hands of United Supporters’ Club officials. Business will commence at 1.15 p.m. when the turnstiles will open for the United Reserves-Brighton Reserves combination cup game. For the Bristol game it has been decided to open the gates at noon as five special trains from Bristol will arrive just before mid-day and Rovers are expected to bring at least 8,000 spectators. Agreement has yet to be reached on the colours the two clubs will play in. This will be left to the F.A. to settle. Bristol wanted to bring their own band but Southend’s musicians are quite capable of playing “Good-night Irene” the Rovers signature tune and not forgetting our own little ditty “All pull together”
The semi final for the World Snooker Championship between Fred Davis and Jack Rea of Belfast which was to have taken place at the Kursaal has been transferred to Wellington in Shropshire. Reason for this, the Kursaal say is the expense involved in having all the tickets printed. Inland revenue insist that a ticket be printed for every seat at every session which amounts to some 18,000 tickets costing £60.
Trouble started when supporters who had queued for several hours at the Stadium came away disappointed. Many of them besieged the offices of the club in an effort to tell the directors what they thought of the arrangements. Many who queued had no intention of seeing the Reserves match but paid for admission intending to leave as soon as they had obtained their tickets. They left their cars parked on the roadside only to find they had been reported for parking by the Police. A supporter from Beaumont Gardens states that when he lined up there were approximately 70 to 100 people in front of him. On passing through the turnstiles he was surprised to find nearly treble that number for season ticket holders (already in possession of one ticket) were passed through the turnstile and allowed to jump the queue. A Westbourne Grove man wrote “I entered the ground at 1.45 p.m. my entrance fee of 2s 3d was accepted without a word of explanation or hint that the tickets had nearly all gone.
AN APOLOGY The Directors and management wish to tender their apology for the unfortunate breakdown in arrangements made for the distribution of tickets last Saturday. Certain unexpected circumstances developed for which the organisers were unprepared, and these caused misunderstanding and confusion. From the Southend v Bristol Rovers programme.
F.A.Cup Round 4
Saturday 2nd February 1952
Southend United 2-1 Bristol Rovers.
The Blues fought their way through to the fifth round of the F.A.Cup but the match was in no way a classic football match, in fact there had been far more football science in the Southampton cup-tie than in this match. The game was a fight to the finish and what a finish it was, with Jack French putting paid to Rovers hopes nine minutes from time. The Rovers fans were hushed. The strains of “Goodnight Irene” which was sung virtually non-stop since they took the lead two minutes after the interval, died away and were not heard again. Bristol had been unfortunate to lose as United equalised why a player was injured and receiving attention on the side of the pitch. Both goals had narrow escapes but the first half remained goalless. Two minutes into the second half Rovers took the lead when Scannell came out to take the ball but he was beaten to the ball. After this Rovers were spurred onto greater efforts, but with a player short Loughran placed a drop shot into the goalmouth and Leslie Stubbs was on hand to head the equaliser in the 63rd minute. The excitement in the stand became intense, the Rovers player returned but was a passenger on the wing. Nine minutes from time Lawler lobbed the ball into the goalmouth and French burst through the defence and drove the ball into the net. Team: Scannell; Loughran and Anderson; French, Sheard and Lawler; Sibley, McAlinden, Wakefield, Grant and Stubbs.
No.29 Div 3 (South)
Wednesday 6th February 1952
Bristol City 6-0 Southend United.
After holding Bristol to a single goal lead at the interval they were completely overrun in the second half and finished six goals adrift. All five of the home forwards scored and the wonder was that they didn’t reach double figures, on the other hand Stubbs had two clear cut chances but in each case he shot straight at the goalkeeper. Team: Morton; Loughran and Anderson; French, Sheard and Lawler; Sibley, McAlinden, Grant, Thompson and Stubbs.
6th February 1952 King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House, Norfolk. The official announcement said the King retired in his usual health, but passed away in his sleep and was found dead in bead at 7.30 a.m. He was 56 and was known to have been suffering with a lung condition. Princess Elizabeth who is hunting in Kenya immediately becomes Queen at the age of 25.
SU BLUE. 2
Newbie
Christ I must be old I remember a lot of those players
UTB
UTB
Rattus Norvegicus
Dullard ①
Give over - just a little harmless contact here and there to remind the goalie he had better be careful.
Fabtastic bit of film though - 22,000 and not a single childish hooligan in sight either.
That 8 looks a player. Was that Jimmy McAlinden?
Some nice touches from Jackie French as well.
Some nice touches from Jackie French as well.
Shrimperforlife
Director
or flares!!!
AndyT
Lord of the Reedy River
Stretcher spottage just when 'The Rovers' score.
Where were they when that fellas was injured!
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