RE-INTRODUCTION TO MY FOOTBALL BLOG (Blog Design by Sam Hutton)
To readers new and old just to reintroduce myself and the history of this blog, it is recommended that you read my very first blog 'In the beginning' dated February, 2015. This explains my football watching history between 1946 and 1980. After my summer recess (watching and blogging about cricket) I am restarting around Christmas 1960 while still living in the West Midlands. Most of the reports and pictures of the time are from the Midland's sports papers, the Sporting Star of Wolverhampton and the Sports Argus and Sports Mail of Birmingham.
For the remainder of the the 1960-61 season and for much of 1961-62 I will be concentrating very much on Walsall Football Club during the most successful period in their history, after years in the basement of the Football League. I then return to some of the other Midland teams, particularly West Bromwich Albion and Wolves. After that I follow Derby County and Matlock Town to glory before moving to Sheffield and following both of the City's teams. The story ends back where it started in Leeds during the late 1970s.
FRIDAY 23RD DECEMBER, 1960
LEAGUE DIVISION THREE AT FELLOWS PARK, WALSALL
WALSALL1 (Richards) BURY 0 Attendance 10,702
Christie; Palin, Sharples; Hill, McPherson, Dudley;
Askey, Hodgkisson, Wilson, Richards, Taylor;
Adams; Robertson, Conroy; Turner, Bunner, Atherton;
Calder, Holden, Watson, Jackson, Hubbard;
Referee:- L. Callaghan, Merthyr Tydfil)
League table before today's game.
Walsall had warmed up for this important game with league leaders Bury with a fine 6-2 thrashing of Staffordshire rivals Port Vale last Saturday. The goal scoring hero was yet again Tony Richards with four goals but the man involved in many of the goals was Tommy Wilson, whose partnership up front with Richards is really taking off.
SATURDAY 24TH DECEMBER, 1960
LEAGUE DIVISION ONE AT VILLA PARK, BIRMINGHAM Attendance 55,000
ASTON VILLA 0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 2 (Farmer, Durandt)
Sims; Neal, Winton; Crowe, Dugdale, Deakin;
MacEwan, Thomson, Hitchens, Wylie, McParland;
Finlayson; Stuart, Harris; Flowers, Slater, Clamp;
Deeley, Murray, Farmer, Broadbent, Durandt.
Referee:- K. Dagnall, Bolton
TUESDAY 27TH DECEMBER, 1960
LEAGUE DIVISION ONE AT THE HAWTHORNS, WEST BROMWICH
WEST BROMWICH ALBION 1 (Kevan) CARDIFF CITY 1 (Baker) Attendance 30,000
Potter; Howe, Williams G; Robson, Kennedy, Bannister;
Macready, Smith, Kevan, Jackson, Allen;
Swan; Harrington, Stitfall; Gammon, Malloy, Baker;
Walsh, Edgley, Tapscott, Watkins, Hogg;
MIDLAND INTERMEDIATE LEAGUE CUP AT FELLOWS PARK, WALSALL
WALSALL RESERVES 0 SHREWSBURY TOWN RESERVES 0
MONDAY 9TH JANUARY, 1961
LEAGUE DIVISION THREE AT FELLOWS PARK, WALSALL
WALSALL 2 (Hodgkisson, Richards pen) BOURNEMOUTH 0
Christie; Palin, Sharples; Hill, McPherson, Dudley;
Askey, Hodgkisson, Wilson, Richards, Foster;
Godwin; Woollard, Gledstone; Arnott, Nelson, King;
Bumstead, Dowsett, Jones, Bolton, Smith;
LEAGUE DIVISION THREE AT FELLOWS PARK,, WALSALL
WALSALL 3 (Hodgkisson, Richards 2) SWINDON TOWN 0 Game abandoned after 85 minutes.
Christie; Palin, Sharples; Hill, McPherson, Dudley;
Askey, Hodgkisson, Wilson, Richards, Foster;
Burton; Wollen, Trollope; Morgan, Owen, Dell;
Summerbee, Hunt, Woodruff, Jackson, Jones:
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