Caption Competition

Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

Key Player
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Seriously people, after today’s excruciatingly bad dollop of dross that harkens back to our old Division 4 days playing the likes of Bradford PA (whom we happen to have hammered 5-0 on a snow covered Vetch in early 1970) ... what we need is to assert our collective penchant and flair for acerbic wit and cutting sarcasm .... we need a Caption Competition.

When BoBo looked like he would remain forever in a class unto himself, Cooper by an unassailable combination of facial expression and sheer tactical stupidity has plumbed a new depth. His vacant expression and a void of tactical nous clearly establishes him as almost the worst of all time, perhaps even as bad as Kevin Cullis, who only imitated a football manager for 6 days and no player paid attention to ... so it can be argued no harm no foul.

Please post your caption for the photo above. We can then vote and I will post the top 5 to the Club’s Facebook page. I might become persona non grata as a result, but it’ll be more entertaining than what passed as football against Millwall,
 
ivoralljack

ivoralljack

Grizzled Veteran
Staff member
Yankee_Jack said:
back to our old Division 4 days playing the likes of Bradford PA (whom we happen to have hammered 5-0 on a snow covered Vetch in early 1970) ..
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That was March 7th 1970 and I was one of a crowd of 7,355, standing on the wooden sleepers behind the goal on the open East Bank terrace. :)Bradford Park Avenue turned in comfortably one of the worst performances I've ever seen from a football team. It could easily have been double figures but, as it was, Herbie Williams got a hat trick, big Dave Gwyther and Brian Evans got one apiece. In the reverse fixture (22/11/69) we had won 2-0 with goals again from Gwyther and Evans. That season Herbie and Gwyther got 15 goals each, Geoff Thomas scored 11, Evans got 8 and Len Allchurch weighed in with his shirt number 7.

I have to admit that I far more readily identified with the team in those days because we had so many Welsh/local lads playing for us. Apart from those I've already mentioned above, we had the likes of Tony Millington, Dai Lawrence, Alan Williams, Mel Nurse (OF COURSE), Willie Screen, Carl Slee (related to Barrie Hole who joined the following season), Brian Grey, Dillwyn John, Tony Cotton (also played county cricket for Glamorgan), Clive Slattery and a few others. And here's the thing, and I'm sure that @Yankee_Jack might well agree in terms of himself, although I never got the breakthrough to league football, in my prime I knew damn well that I was a better player than some of the lesser lights in that squad.

Thing is, back in those days I had a successful business that I was reluctant to leave (much the same situation occurred when I was offered a full time post as a football journalist a few years later) and I was told that if I brought myself up to full match fitness, maybe I'd be good enough to get a pro contract as I was lightning quick and strong with it. But I was making a pretty decent living from my business, which was hugely time consuming taking me all over the country, and I couldn't find the time to fit in the training regime that was needed. Now, had teams been paying the sort of money on offer today, I wouldn't have thought twice about putting my business on hold and having a bloody good crack at football. :D But that's life and I guess we all have our own stories of missed opportunities. :)
 
Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

Key Player
@ivoralljack ... Bentley played 4-2-4 and with two wingers like Brian Evans and Len it was a natural fit. Vic Gomersall was left back that season. I got to play with a Vic and “Joey” Slattery several years later through Haverfordwest. Vic scared the shit out of me - as solid a player as you could ever bounce off, deceptive turn of speed and clinical two footed slide tackle. And I take your point about ability etc .. most of that squad eventually ended up in the Welsh league - Herbie Williams and Geoff Thomas played for Milford for a while. Ok, but no great shakes.
 
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