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Just seen that on the great auction website, Pie. Lovely photo and you're right, it shows that life just went on as normal for footballers and their families back in the day.
And it made me think of this one I have of Palace's Nick Chatterton in about 1975, with his father Len who was groundsman at Selhurst Park and drove the famous "Flatterer" to iron out the divots at half time. Len was a stalwart Palace man, groundsman for over 20 years and ran the kids' Xmas parties for years. Nick didn't stay so long, joining Millwall in 1978 after 4 really good years at Selhurst. This is going down a notch or two from Jim and the others you mention, I know, but there is a connection.
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Flaming Pie
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:25 pm
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Pete, l think the Harry Kane of the 1950s, Nat Lofthouse, ended up doing every job going at Bolton in his later years, including groundsman. I can’t see Harry ever ending up as groundsman at Spurs! Think l’ve posted it on here before, but a story that has always stuck with me was Lofthouse sitting on the coach travelling to the airport through Lancashire. It was an end of season England tour . The coach drove past groups of miners on their way to a shift at their local put. Nat was looking out of the window looking at them and he said to his teammates “ look at those lads on their way to pit, while us lot are off abroad to kick a ball around and getting paid for it as well!” |
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