1934, Fulham
...because football nostalgia sites have to feature quirky pictures from time to time.
19.9.16
17.9.16
The Umpire's Whistle 1872
I have read a great number of speculative accounts regarding the introduction of the whistle (logically for use by umpires rather than the referee). The common denominators tend to be the involvement of Nottingham Forest and one of the Sheffield clubs. A date of 1878 is often featured.
The following item from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph of 19th March 1872 should lay some of this speculation to rest:
The following item from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph of 19th March 1872 should lay some of this speculation to rest:
The snippet of information is rather tantalizing. The article refers to a meeting of The Sheffield Football Clubs Association. It's unclear who Mr Brown was? There was a Mr Brown on the committee of the Heeley club, but that's rather tenuous.
In January 1872 Sheffield Norfolk played Forest, winning 5-1. I can find no record of the officials.
The return match on 09.03.72 at Nottingham saw Forest win 1-0. Messrs Pashley and Hussey were the umpires.
Incidentally, the pea whistle came into being in 1884, the legendary Acme Thunderer, so prior to this umpires would have used 'Police' type whistles.
Here is my grandfather's Acme whistle, which would have seen service in the Swansea area in the 1930s.
14.9.16
1930 World Cup-Team of the Tournament
Enrique
Ballestrero (Uruguay)
The 25
year old Rampla Juniors ‘keeper conceded 3 goals, keeping 3 clean sheets in the group
stage.
José Nasazzi (Uruguay)
El Gran Mariscal
was 28 at the time of the World Cup and was playing club football for Bella Vista.
Already with 2 Olympic Golds and 3 South American Championships to his name, Nasazzi
was the player of the tournament.
Milutin Ivković
(Yugoslavia)
24-year-old
medical student, captain of Yugoslavia. The only European on the list, he
played for SK Soko (Belgrade).
Luis Monti
(Argentina)
Doble Ancho, the 29
year old Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro halfback scored
2 goals in the tournament and was reputedly subject to death threats before the final.
Álvaro Gestido (Uruguay)
The 23
yr old Peñarol centre half was another Olympic gold medalist (1928).
José Leandro
Andrade (Uruguay)
28
year old Maravilla Negra was a Nacional
player at the time of the World Cup win. He was also a double Olympic champion
and 3 times South American Championship winner.
The 29 year old Nacional forward scored 5 goals in the tournament including a hattrick in the semi final. He scored the goal that brought Uruguay level at 2-2 in the final. He was also a double Olympic Gold medalist.
Héctor Castro (Uruguay)
25 year old Nacional centre forward won a Gold medal at the 1928 Olympics and was a 2 times South American Championship winner.He was Uruguay's first World Cup scorer. His second goal of the tournament was Uruguay's 4th in the final, scored in the 89th minute.
Famously Castro was an amputee.
Héctor Scarone (Uruguay)
The veteran inside forward was 31 at the time of the World Cup win. He was back at Nacional following a spell with Barcelona. Scarone had won 4 South American Championships and 2 Olympic Gold medals.
Guillermo
Stábile (Argentina)
Having come in as a replacement for Argentina's second game, 25 year old Stabile (Huracan) scored 8 goals in 4 games and never played in another international match, moving to Italy after the World Cup.
Bert Patenaude (USA)
The 21 year old Fall River Marksmen forward is credited with 4 goals at the World Cup.
13.9.16
11.9.16
ОППВ
Опытно-Показательная Площадка Военведа was, between 1924 and 1928, the name of the Moscow club now known as Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии. In English the club is known as CSKA.
10.9.16
Crowd and chaff...
The match referred to was Cobridge v Wednesbury in the semi final of the The Staffordshire Senior Challenge Cup. Cobridge won by 1-0.
Staffordshire Sentinel- 24.03.79
6.9.16
Radio, 1922
His name is Claudio Sapelli and he is transmitting a radio broadcast of the 1922 South American Championship of Nations.
Sapelli was stationed on the roof of the La Plata newspaper offices in Montevideo. As a teletype account of the matches was received from Rio de Janeiro megaphone announcements would be made to the crowd below and Sapelli would relay the updates via radio.
He would have reached a limited audience as there were just 75 radio receivers in the whole of Uruguay.
A 0-0 draw with eventual winners Brazil and a 1-0 defeat to Paraguay saw Uruguay finish in 3rd place.
4.9.16
Vivian Woodward- Southern League, Football League & FA Cup Record
Vivian Woodward's name is forever associated with the remarkable scoring feats of the England Amateur sides of 1906-14 (and their other guise as the double gold medal winning Great Britain Olympic team of 1908 & 1912). He also toured with Football Association squads and featured prominently for various amateur combinations such as English Wanderers and Pilgrims
It is worth recalling that Woodward also scored 29 goals in 23 matches for England between 1903 and 1911.
So what of Vivian Woodward in League and Cup football?
Woodward joined Spurs in March 1901 and made just 1 Southern League appearance that season:
League
|
Cup
|
||||||
Season
|
Club
|
Games
|
Goals
|
Games
|
Goals
|
||
1900-01
|
Tottenham Hotspur
|
1
|
0
|
5
|
W
|
||
1901-02
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
R1
|
|||
1902-03
|
12
|
4
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
R3
|
|
1903-04
|
17
|
10
|
2
|
4
|
1
|
R3
|
|
1904-05
|
20
|
7
|
5
|
4
|
0
|
R2
|
|
1905-06
|
12
|
5
|
5
|
3
|
1
|
R3
|
|
1906-07
|
20
|
7
|
6
|
3
|
0
|
R3
|
|
1907-08
|
20
|
10
|
7
|
1
|
0
|
R1
|
|
1908-09
|
27
|
18
|
2
|
4
|
0
|
R3
|
|
1909-10
|
Chelsea
|
13
|
5
|
19
|
2
|
0
|
R2
|
1910-11
|
19
|
6
|
3
|
3
|
3
|
SF
|
|
1911-12
|
14
|
2
|
2
|
R2
|
|||
1912-13
|
27
|
10
|
18
|
3
|
1
|
R2
|
|
1913-14
|
27
|
4
|
8
|
2
|
R1
|
||
1914-15
|
6
|
3
|
19
|
F
|
|||
Games
|
Goals
|
|
Football League Div.1
|
73
|
22
|
Football League Div.2
|
60
|
26
|
Southern League
|
104
|
42
|
FA Cup
|
33
|
9
|
Woodward has the distinction of scoring Tottenham Hotspur's first Football League goal.
Chelsea were prepared to play Woodward in the 1915 FA Cup Final (by then he was Lieutenant Woodward of the 17th Middlesex (1st Football Battalion)). Woodward declined to take the place of the in form Bobby Thompson.
A gentleman amateur (an architect and farmer) Woodward was also on the board of directors for Tottenham and Chelsea during his time with the clubs, something we'll probably never see in the Premier League.
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