unusual press photos

[dangerman]

please could you upload any unusal press photos like this one thanks

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[Pete’s Picture Palace]

Here's one I prepared earlier. Shows a goalkeeper floundering in mud in Copenhagen, Sept 1956. Notation on the back says a sudden rainstorm over Western Europe caused it - but looks to me more like a put-up job.

[derby1884]

There's a terrific "mud" photo in one of the late 60s Topical Times Annuals.
I think it's the Clyde goalkeeper featured after 90 minutes of diving around in wet mud trying to stop Rangers run riot.
Would that I could find it because it's worth seeing just for the look on the poor sod's face!
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[nozer]

Bit of a mud bath here also as the late Trevor Hocky ( Norwich) puts a tackle in on the great Mike Bailey Wolves captain circa 1970.
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[Pete’s Picture Palace]

The reason I think it's staged is - look at the ball - 1956 it would have been an old-fashioned leather ball and in those condiitons it would have looked & felt and weighed like a medicine ball. The one in this is half clean, as if it's just been placed there beside the keeper.



Talk of weather reminds me of this one - it's April 1968, Selhurst Park, and the Spanish international team are "warming up" for their game with England. (Photo on sale now!)

[treble99]

Manchester United players(including the great Billy Meredith) relax by playing golf.
Picture probably taken in 1912

For your amusement this and many other are items can be viewed at the worlds largest private Manchester United collection at

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[Goalsandwickets]

derby1884 wrote:

There's a terrific "mud" photo in one of the late 60s Topical Times Annuals. I think it's the Clyde goalkeeper featured after 90 minutes of diving around in wet mud trying to stop Rangers run riot. Would that I could find it because it's worth seeing just for the look on the poor sod's face!

There are quite a few good MUD photos in the 1960's and early 1970's Topical Times Football Books.

I have it on my list at some point to put a post on my site about the things we don't see any more; 'Where has all the mud gone' (or similar) and somewhere amongst all the stacks of annuals I have here surrounding me, I put a note of the relevant ones with the visuals I intended to use - will probably just have to plough through them all again but that's a nice task as those annuals are terrific.

ON DS, someone has put a thread about football rattles (another item we don't see anymore) and apparently, they were banned in the early 1970's because the ruddy 'ooligans (as Alf Garnett called them) were using them as weapons!!!

Here's the latest list from Completed Listings on Ebay (on rattles not mud!);

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.ht.....mp;_sop=16

[Goalsandwickets]

nozer wrote:

Bit of a mud bath here also as the late Trevor Hocky ( Norwich) puts a tackle in on the great Mike Bailey Wolves captain circa 1970.

Great photo Nozer.

Hockey died young in his early 40's back in Keighley where he was born.

Nowadays, would Trevor get a red card for going off both feet for that tackle?

[Goalsandwickets]

Pete’s Picture Palace wrote:

The reason I think it's staged is - look at the ball - 1956 it would have been an old-fashioned leather ball and in those condiitons it would have looked & felt and weighed like a medicine ball. The one in this is half clean, as if it's just been placed there beside the keeper. Talk of weather reminds me of this one - it's April 1968, Selhurst Park, and the Spanish international team are "warming up" for their game with England. (Photo on sale now!)

Great photo too, Pete.

Evocative image of the barriers behind them on the bank of terraces; probably ones designed by Leitch???

Wonder how the snow affected the ticca-tacca practices?

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

Mark and all, reckon this photo ticks just about every box

Soldiers, Selhurst Park, Jan 1940, watching England v The Army, line-ups also attached.

I have gazed at this photo for hours, it's been my screen-saver and now it's on my wall. Those faces all have character and have adopted nicknames - the Rogue, the Boffin, the Cad, the Twit. And I love their teeth.

[Goalsandwickets]

Brilliant Pete.

Interesting how the inclusion of the Army players' ranks has forced them to play 2-3-4-1.

Was this forward lying centre forward the counterpoint to Hideguti's deep lying one 13 years later?

Is W. Fagan (from Liverpool) anything to do with Joe Fagan?

Funny, that it was the teeth with all the gaps that my eyes picked up immediately when I looked at the picture.

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

Mark, Willie Fagan was the Liverpool player, not the same bloke but they may be related? He played for Celtic, Preston and Liverpool in spells either side of WW2. He then became player-manager of Distillery.

Joe played for Man City and then briefly for Bradford PA before becoming manager of Nelson, then trainer of Rochdale under Harry Catterick, and then on to Liverpool in 1958.

Yes a Christmas Tree formation.

Who else remembers Maurice Edelston's match commentaries on Sports Report in the 60's? "Peters, carrying 10". Always made me think the higher the number, the heavier the shirt.

[nozer]

Dont think there was anything progresive re the line-up for this fixture ,just presume thay could not fit the names of the forward line all together ?.
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[Goalsandwickets]

Absolutely, Nozer.

Interesting stuff, Pete.

[Auchinleckian]

If somebody can advise me how to get photos onto here I've a cracker.

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

Scan it, 100 dpi wouild be Ok, save it to a file - then open a mail (or reply to this), "upload picture", find it in your saved file and then follow the instructions. You can't go wrong!

[dangerman]

i use photobucket. first you must register then at the top there is a word upload click on that then click on browse files and find the picture u want and click on it. after it has finised uploading click on the picture to view it. on the right side click on the img code link and then paste the link into your reply

[littlewiggy]

This one is the rather bizarre 'holding cell' for terrace-dwelling urchins at our old Somerton Park ground in the mid-70s.

I remember walking past this scary looking place during half-times in my youth & always glancing in to see if any of my mates were in there; no doubt tied to the wall whilst being savagely beaten with a length of birch, the swines!!

Just one of the many Newport press photos Palace-Pete has found for me over the years ...

[littlewiggy]

This one is from Newport County vs Norwich City in 1951, an infamous game played in what can only be described as a monsoon-mudbath.

County were thrashing Norwich 5-1 with something like ten minutes to go, when one of the Norwich players 'collapsed' after heading the rain-drenched medicine ball.
Many County players were convinced he was faking his injury & fury ensued when the referee subsequently abandoned the game.

The crowd were so incensed that hundreds congregated behind the main grandstand, refusing to leave the ground, all hell-bent on lynching the poor official.
The frightened ref was eventually "smuggled out of the stadium disguised as ambulance man!"

When the match was eventually replayed, the two teams drew 1-1!

Worse still, it cost County legend Reg Parker his century of league goals; having scored twice in the abandoned fixture, he failed to net in the rearranged match.

Reg finished his Newport career on 99 league goals!
(nobody ever got a hundred)