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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Fixtures out today
« on: July 12, 2024, 10:19:16 PM »The usual bizarre midweek away fixtures - Barnet and Maidenhead early on.
God knows why they have to make them such a long trip
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The usual bizarre midweek away fixtures - Barnet and Maidenhead early on.
Woking (H) to start the season! 😉
9th time in 10 seasons our first game has been at home. We haven't won any of them.
New pop side stand, cover and some seats in the away section, new Lavvies there too, Lavvies between the main stand and the family stand and the Job's a guddun! 😉
I also recall a story that you told Ray about him telling people that they'd get gravel rash if they tried to get past him
Hadn't heard of him before so went straight to Wiki and learnt some really interesting facts.
He played in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden as a result of the death or Roger Byrne in the Munich Air Disaster. This was Pele's first world cup. England were in the same group as Brasil, USSR and Austria and drew all 3 games...from wiki it seems that this group was a "group of death"...
"Despite the disappointments of the previous tournaments, Brazil were considered extremely powerful, as would prove to be the case. The Soviet Union were the 1956 Olympic champions and Austria had won the bronze medal in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, four years earlier. And although England, weakened by the loss of several players at the Munich air disaster, were not considered at their very best, they were still always a formidable team.....The quality of the football in this group did not quite live up to expectations, however. Only 15 goals were scored in the whole group, only one more than Group 3. And when England and Brazil drew 0?0, it was the first time in World Cup history that a game ended goalless. It was also the first time Brazil had failed to score in a World Cup finals match."
As England finished on exact same points and goals as USSR this went to a play off which England lost 1-0. But it must have been a pretty decent England side to hold the ultimate winners to a 0-0 draw. England were the only side in the tournament not to lose to Brasil.
It sounds like Alty were lucky to get such an accomplished defender, albeit for only 2 years. Can any of our elder members recount what that Alty team was like? Were these good years for the club?