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Pete’s Picture Palace

I've only had this photo a few hours and it's doing my head in already.

It's stamped Sheffield Newspapers so is presumably at Hillsborough. It shows Wednesday scoring and their kit looks like 1973/4 or 1974/5 - give or take. But I can't recognise the scorer on the right and I definitely can't get their opponents. I've scanned it and blown up the main protagonists.

Can anyone help, please?

The scorer

The defender

The defender blown up with badge & Bukta crest?

My first thought was Orient as I thought it looked like Terry Brisley but their shirts of the day had red collars as here:-

And I've checked red shirts like Forest, Middlesbro, Swindon, Bournemouth, Bristol City and they didn't have a badge like that and didn't wear Bukta shirts. So what about a team usually in blue in change kit? Millwall? Ipswich? No match there. Or Plymouth in green? No match.

If anyone can help I'd be very grateful. Thank you again.

yachtsmun · Joined: 27 Sep 2009 Posts: 326 Location: Vectis

75-6 Sheff Weds 1 Wrexham 0 maybe?
(Wrexham had Bukta kit that year, change of socks so no clash with Sheff Weds)
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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:51 pm Post subject:

You've got it - thank you so much Yachtsmun!!

Wrexham..... 6th Sept 1975.

Now - who's the scorer? Any Owls on board?

yachtsmun · Joined: 27 Sep 2009 Posts: 326 Location: Vectis

Alan Thompson perhaps? (He had a tache previously, but...)
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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:21 pm Post subject:

This bloke doesn't look like a centre back like Thompson. It's more likely to be Mick Prendergast or Dave Sunley perhaps?

yachtsmun · Joined: 27 Sep 2009 Posts: 326 Location: Vectis

You're probably right - I was just going off this pic from a couple of years earlier. Nose, eyes and chin look similar though.

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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:31 pm Post subject:

Parting's on wrong side. Is Prendergast in your photo?

efc1998 · Joined: 25 Apr 2009 Posts: 175

According to my book "One hundred years at Hillsborough" and the photo looks like Wrexham's captain at that time Gareth Davis and if the date is correct the scorer in the 79th minute is a guy called Herbert who I profess to have never heard of. Sheffield Wednesday winning the game 1-0.

Rocky · Joined: 15 Jun 2009 Posts: 1531

efc1998 wrote:

According to my book "One hundred years at Hillsborough" and the photo looks like Wrexham's captain at that time Gareth Davis and if the date is correct the scorer in the 79th minute is a guy called Herbert who I profess to have never heard of. Sheffield Wednesday winning the game 1-0.

Just beat me to it. David Herbert is also listed in the Rothmans yearbook as the scorer.
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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:10 pm Post subject:

Thank you efc and Rocky for that. Didn't take long with you experts on the case and saved me a sleepless night or two.

And I'd never heard of Mr Herbert either. 17 games, 5 goals.

longeared · Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 4

Hello - long time lurker, first time poster.

As a Wednesday fan I saw this photo on Ebay last week. I agree it's Wednesday v Wrexham, but think it's from March 5th 1977 rather than a season earlier.

The Historical Kits site (which I accept is not always completely accurate) gives the Wrexham kit as having a slight difference in 77 - there's no white panel behind the badge, and it doesn't look like there's one here. http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Wrexham/Wrexham.htm

I don't think the player is David Herbert either, he was born in 1956 so would have been 18/19 at the time of the game. Here's a picture of him celebrating v Grimsby on September 20th 1975 - also notice the difference in advertising hoardings.

The 1977 game finished 3-1 to Wednesday, scorers Denis Leman, Rodger Wylde, Bobby Hope. It's not the Hope goal, that was a penalty, and it's clearly not Wylde. Does look a bit like Leman though. The Wednesday player on the far side looks suspiciously like Paul Bradshaw, who we signed in the summer of 1976.

If time permits over the weekend I'll see if the photo appeared in any programmes to confirm.