Indeed.. Smith wasnt one of them but St John, Hunt, Yeats and the others mentioned were. Funny to think that just over a year later kevin Keegan was brought in. By the way yesterday marked the 48th anniversary of the game.
Yes you are correct, my mistake the players apart from Tommy Lawrence to have their Liverpool careers finished by us were indeed Geoff Strong and Ian St John!
Regarding the Liverpool and Man Utd games discussed here recently - the following appeared on twitter a little while back, which I saved: From the Liverpool match - And Utd - I'm assuming number 7 is George Best?
Not Ray Lugg, he didnt join til the following season. Our line up that day was.. Walker, Welbourne, Williams, Hale, Eddy, Walley, Scullion, Garbett, Green, Endean, Owen. I think it might be Eddy, Williams and Tom Walley in the pic.
You are correct Eddy, Williams and Owen that was my first game, straight on the bus from school got there at 1645, stood on the cinder track between the rookery and Scrodells stand, my friends Dad picked us up right outside the ground after the match, I still don't know how he managed to park there!
Went with Walley as he is listed on ***** Images as being in the pic.. perhaps he was hiding somewhere So is it Williams, Eddy, Owen left to right?
Hate to be picky, Jossy, but Endean's goal was so glorious we should do it the justice of flipping it the right way round!
In full-on Mazzarri or snake style - don't blame me, blame this account: https://twitter.com/MemorabiliaMal/status/966236424784707584 Worse than that - when going through my folder of old Watford pics, I realised I've got a whole host of pics from that game that are better (albeit some with a watermark): (pics either from twitter or oldwatford.com)
To add a bit of colour to a cold day.. NB The person who colourised these is probably on here. So i'd just like to say.. thank you! No but seriously if you didnt want them here i'll get them removed.
Really good effort here. One small point, the yellow shirts (and socks) in the Cliff 'Big Fella' Holton picture were a much darker shade - old gold in fact, like Wolves are. Otherwise splendid.
Not my pics but there you go ive goldened up the golden boys PS I see we did have covered dugouts at this time.. well a covered shed more like!
Romford away in the Fa cup January 1951.. when we had an all white away kit made by Fred Perry! Actually we didnt but due to a colour clash we thought we'd wear it anyway.
People look to me like they've dressed up, not down for the match. Three of the four ladies are wearing fur. Further sartorial notes: Neckwear - nearly every body in a tie, including at least one bow-tie. A couple of cravats, (possibly I may be corrected by someone calling them neckties?). The flat caps are very wide and do not appear to be 'working class'. Is it possible to date them accurately, I wonder? Several bowler hats (including a pale one - does that count as a bowler hat?). No colours and no rattles,as has been noted. Best of all at least two of the men are sporting wing collars, for goodness sake. The overall demeanour of everybody there appears expectant, jolly, slightly excited, but definitely not tense. No hint of any rabid partiality. I like the picket fence - did you have to pay extra to get behind it? There could not have been all that big a grandstand at early twenties Vic Rd, and the people are seated. So presumably they are either well-to-do folk or at least trying to appear so. Was the match going on at the time? Quite a few of them are looking to their right, but plenty seem very pleased to have their photo taken and, if so, not all that bothered by what's going on in the game. The more I think about it the more I wonder if it actually was at Vicarage Road.....
Almost certainly Cassio Road. They had a pavilion there and i think that's what the pic is of. Like you said seemingly well to do people and i'm guessing not to many women in the other parts of the ground back then. Taken during a game i'd say.. with some distracted by the not common sight of a camera. Vicarage Road had the East or Main stand from the day we moved in in 1922.. more than twice the size of any at Cassio Road. Another similar pic has emerged since i posted the last one..
Fella at the front left side of gate looks uncannily like Winston Churchill! Great pics.....thanks to all of you posting them
These two photos These two photos are surely historical gold. Well done for posting them. Yes, the Winston Churchill look-alike is even smoking a cigar. I'm pretty-much 100% certain this was at the Cassio Road ground. Here is a picture of the West Herts Sports Club House, just after it was burned down in 1963: The picket fence, complete with the gate in your second photo, was still there (forty ?) years later. The 'members only' sign would have referred to members of the West Herts Sports Club - although I'm not entirely sure that that was its exact title in those days. Plenty of ladies' fashions on display in the second photo - datable? Several of the older gentlemen are sporting goatee beards in the manner of Edward vii and George v. So maybe it was barely into the twenties. The burning-down of the clubhouse (surely it was never referred-to as any kind of stand - it was so small) is another story for another day, perhaps.
I guess you mean the VIP section.. but it's funny how people see the upper GT. Ive sat up there on a couple of occasions and noticed quite a number of faces who went to games in 70's & 80's. Lads who went all over the country following the team, even before the success of the GT era. I see they often get a knocking on here.. but i bet in 30 years time half of the younger loyal supporters will be sat up there!
Datable as in which year? or a comment on whether the women are worth taking out I think the one front right is more demonic than datable! Yes hard to say which year but earlier than the first one isnt it? What we dont know for sure is whether the photo were actually taken at Watford fc games. I'm guessing they probably were.. and the place i took the first photo from said as much. The second photo just turned up on Facebook after i'd posted the first. No explanation with it but it looks to have come from the same source. I think your pavilion photo.. which i'd never seen.. is the final piece in the puzzle to confirm these were, as suspected, taken at Cassio Road.
Edward VII two rows behind him. Looks almost fin de siecle if I may be such an utter nob to use such a phrase. Probably a little later maybe; 1908 I'll go for. Though Liz Stride seems to have cropped up again on the forum (twice in one weekend!) front right in the picture. Post mortem this time.
Ha! Perhaps Necrobutcher will see this.... The young man at the front right is wearing some sort of ribbon. I'm going to make the crazy assumption that this is not to demonstrate affiliation to #me too , so might it be a club's colours?
