SUFC Roll of honour

[Matt the Shrimp]

Well, Frank Walton (perhaps unsurprisingly) won the vote for 1936-46:

SUFC Roll of Honour

Voting has now started for 1946-56, and your shortlist is:

* Jimmy McAlinden
* CW Clenshaw
* Sid Broomfield

Something tells me that this might be a bit of a one-horse race...

 

[General Easterly]

Vote Sid Broomfield, go on, you know it makes sense (currently leading with 90% - who voted for other people)

 

[SUFCFARAWAY]

sorry! go on CW!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Sid Broomfield by the proverbial country mile.

A bit surprised that Alf Smirk was not nominated. For services to football, journalism and drinking gin & tonic in the Railway.

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 20 2006,13:42)]Well, Frank Walton (perhaps unsurprisingly) won the vote for 1936-46:

SUFC Roll of Honour

Voting has now started for 1946-56, and your shortlist is:

* Jimmy McAlinden
* CW Clenshaw
* Sid Broomfield

Something tells me that this might be a bit of a one-horse race...

Well I should hope more people vote for Clenshaw.

 

[ldnfatso]

can't find where to vote! am i being dense here??


edit: yes i was, found it!!

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Broomfield.

And the new stadium should have at least a stand named after him, if not the whole thing ...

 

[SUFCEssex]

Has to be Sid. I grew up with the Blues running up and down the old South Bank that he built. I think the Liverpool paint on the house at the car park gives a good reminder of happy times in the Wembley of the lower divisions until Jobson came along that must have broke Sid's heart.

 

[General Easterly]

Yes, the liverpool paint job in the car park does give a good reminder of some of the classic matches, the South Bank was prime development land - and - following the refusal of Southend Borough Council to grant a license for him to be able to put on pop concerts and the like at the ground, there was only one option left to recoup some of the debts Anton Johnson had left the club with.

Whilst I'm sure we'd all have liked the South Bank to have stayed how it was, following the Taylor Report it wouldn't have stayed regardless and we would have ended up with probably a slightly larger lego stand.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Mar. 20 2006,13:58)]Well I should hope more people vote for Clenshaw.

Stop trying to be controversial just for the sake of it...

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 21 2006,10:00)]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Mar. 20 2006,13:58)]Well I should hope more people vote for Clenshaw.

Stop trying to be controversial just for the sake of it...

I'm not. The Clenshaws were instrumental in setting up and running the largest fan's group in the whole of England!

 

[C'mon you Blues]

Unfortunately this just shows the flaw to the person of the decade idea. Sid B built Roots Hall. A fantastic achievement. Many older fans consider Jimmy McAlinden SUFC's best ever player (including the late president of SUFC and former Supporter's club chairman John Woodcock) playing for a team amd with team mates well below his level and an impeccable character. The Clenshaws were instumental in the supporters club and raising the cash for Roots Hall. Out of interest I believe the older Clenshaw made his money with the deck chair concession and one of his sons was the first pilot to lose his life in the Battle of Britain and another son was professor of maths at lancaster Uni until his death a few years ago. All were fervent Blues supporters. All made a colossal contribution to this club.
However Sid's contribution was unbelievable - and he's still with us.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Mar. 21 2006,10:03)]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 21 2006,10:00)]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Mar. 20 2006,13:58)]Well I should hope more people vote for Clenshaw.

Stop trying to be controversial just for the sake of it...

I'm not. The Clenshaws were instrumental in setting up and running the largest fan's group in the whole of England!

That's all well and good... but how can you not vote for Sid?