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Down Your Way
By: Whistleblower Date: April 4, 2025, 1:39 am
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A footballing friend of over fifty years standing texted me
yesterday saying that he and his wife had spent the day in a
pleasant town "where a certain Mr Maurice Fussey used to
live". Within five seconds of receiving it I texted back one
word RETFORD. It's strange the things which lodge in one's
memory bank.
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Re: Down Your Way
By: jad Date: April 7, 2025, 8:00 am
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But in those days a referee's place of origin was almost as much
a part of his (as it was then) identity as was his name, and
when I think of referees from the 1950s and 1960s, I always
associate the two pieces of information, so that it is alway
M.A. Fussey (Retford), R.T.E. Langdale (Darlington), L.J. Hamer
(Horwich) and so on. And in those days referees, unless for
some reason they had acquired some degree of fame (or
notoriety), didn't have first names, but only initials.
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Re: Down Your Way
By: Boris10 Date: April 9, 2025, 5:43 am
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Happy days-
LJ Hamer was not always Horwich.In Bradford programmes[and
probably others]it could be Blackrod.No reference to Parliament.
Bradfordians were lucky to see LJ and MA a lot-2 good referees
with VERY contrasting styles.
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Re: Down Your Way
By: Acme Thunderer Date: April 9, 2025, 7:40 am
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And such lovely place names, Swaffham Prior, Steeple Aston,
Madeley Heath, Great Bookham, Four Marks, there must be more. So
much better than South Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear.
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Re: Down Your Way
By: Whistleblower Date: April 9, 2025, 4:55 pm
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To which I would add the riparian sounding Stourport-on-Severn,
the marine sounding Newbiggin-by-the-Sea and the leafy sounding
Fernhill Heath.
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Re: Down Your Way
By: Timbo Date: April 12, 2025, 2:41 pm
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[quote author=Acme Thunderer link=topic=6873.msg90645#msg90645
date=1744202459]
Steeple Aston
[/quote]
Norman Matthews perchance ?
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