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paddy1889 · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 54

Canadian tour badges 50's 60's

Which clubs did these get made for ?
And which are the rarer ones ?

Dorking · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2529

I've seen Sheff Utd and Spurs

Armann · Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Posts: 13 Location: Akureyri - Iceland

Dorking wrote:

I've seen Sheff Utd and Spurs

Birmingham - Huddersfield - Newcastle - Wolves - Hearts (I had it once) - Rangers - and maybe more
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BAZZABAGGIES · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 1918

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

A Huddersfield one sold for £599 last year. Shocked

Valky · Joined: 24 Feb 2011 Posts: 95 Location: London

bisphamseasider wrote:

That is a beautiful badge... am v jealous

Dorking · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2529

Palace went to Canada (and Bermuda) in the Summer of 1964.

No such badges have ever come to light to my knowledge for CPFC.

Why did so many British clubs go there around that time? Its not something you'd see nowadays. Was it that clubs could afford to take players to the most far away places as the maximum wage had only recently been abolished as wages weren't yet sucking the life out of clubs?

Or did Canada subsidise the trips to encourage transatlantic travel and tourism??

Or because European football competitions were still in relative infancy?

Just curious.

Valky · Joined: 24 Feb 2011 Posts: 95 Location: London

Chelsea played against some Polish sides in Poland in the 1930s!
Wonder what badges commemorating those visits might be worth nowadays...

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

Spotted this one this morning whilst researching something else.

paddy1889 · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 54

So not that many were made for our clubs

These days sheffield united only get to burton Albion York and Huddersfield !

MansfieldTerrier · Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Posts: 157

1955 Huddersfield Town.

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treble99 · Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 998 Location: manchester

a fairly large quantity of these badges surfaced about 10 years ago

they were discovered by Keith Wales,a Manchester United collector who has lived around Los Angeles for many years now after he moved from London
He released some via ebay if i remember correctly
He may even still have some

The story around the American and Canada end of season tours is simple.
It was all about the maximum wage
You got the maximum £12 a week whether you played for Arsenal,Manchester United,Manchester City,Spurs,Blackpool
That was part of the reason Stanley Matthews played for Blackpool.He loved the seaside.He liked to train on the sands and in that era Blackpool was the Riviera.
Not like now i'm afraid.An atheist could walk on that water these days(Sorry John)

So back to the tours.
To attract the best you took them on an exotic holiday and paid thee expenses.You disguised the exotic holiday by calling it a tour.
United would sail out on one of the Queens liners(Queen Mary or Elizabeth) and come back on the other.
They usually started at Canada and then worked their way down one coast and back up the other and came home
Most of the trip was a holiday.They'd go to Hollywod and meet the stars.
They'd have time on the beach.
A bit of New York and a bit of LA
Most of the games were total shit and purely an excuse.
They would play teams like Joe Simkins X!(he was the Ford car dealer),
Fall River All Stars,St Louis Catholic X1,German Americans living in New York,Ukranian Americans etc etc
They often played on just school fields in front of a handfull of spectators,That's why the programmes are so so expensive
What they would also do is play 4 or 5 games on these tours against other big teams(Spurs,Hearts,Atlas of Mexico) in cities that were full of ex pat football nuts.United played Spurs in Yankee Stadium.
That got the big crowds and covered the expenses and allowed the team to justify paying the holiday expenses.

MansfieldTerrier · Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Posts: 157

I saw a Huddersfield badge go on eBay about six months ago.
As I recall it fetched between two and three hundred pounds!
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Gorgie Guest · Joined: 02 Apr 2015 Posts: 23

bisphamseasider wrote:

There was also a smaller version of this badge issued when Hearts visited in 1960.

In addition, the same style of badge was issued for the visit of Aberdeen in the 1950's.

So.......given the same style of badge was issued by so many UK clubs on Canadian Tours, is it correct to assume that these badges were produced in Canada?
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