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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator

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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:53 pm
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Hi All
99% sure this is Leslie Compton in the 40's or early 50's for Arsenal at Highbury.
Though it's stamped front & back by Reuters, there are no match details or dates so I'm guessing who the opposition might be.
It looks a change kit so it could be any of teams with red shirts (or stripes) plus perhaps the claret & blue kits who may have changed. But those socks are a bugger as they look to be red or blue or gold perhaps with a black top and I can't find anyone wearing socks like that.
So maybe someone here can help and also might ID the visiting centre forward assuming that's a 9 on his back. Here goes:-
Here's the visiting player
All help greatly appreciated as always - thank you. |
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Westbourne
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:13 pm
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Its Bolton.. they used those socks |
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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator

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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:19 pm
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Cheers Westy, not noticed that before.
If it's them, then it's probably a young-ish Nat Lofthouse. |
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Flaming Pie
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:09 pm
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Pete,, If it's late 1940s could be Bolton striker Ray Westwood .? He left Bolton for Chester in 1948.He played for Bolton and also a handful of appearances for England.He was Duncan Edwards' uncle. |
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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator

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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:43 am
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Just done some digging on Arsenal v Bolton games in the late 40's.
30.11.46 Compton & Lofthouse both played
10.9.47 Neither played
26.2.49 Both played
27.1.50 Both played
I don't have ref books thereafter.
This is all if this actually is Arsenal v Bolton and the 2 players are Leslie Compton & Nat Lofthouse! |
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Westbourne
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:19 am
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It's from January 1950 and it is Nat Lofthouse. There is one similar on Getty images |
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:55 pm
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Cheers Westy |
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