TREBILCOCK SCORES TWO

The Cornish Fish Producers' Organisation was the star of Radio 4 this morning when quotas and Brexit were discussed. Not very footy oriented I agree but the representative from CFPO was surnamed Trebilcock. I perked up, at that time of the morning, a miracle, because I know of one other Trebilcock who was Cornish, and that is Mike. May be a relation?

It's strange surnames or places that often stick in the memory and sure enough Mike Trebilcock reminded me of the 1966 FA Cup Final, when he scored twice in Everton's victory over Sheffield Wednesday at Wembley. Wednesday were 2-0 up after an hour and looked dead cert winners, but within five minutes Trebilcock notched two and with ten minutes left Derek Temple pilfered the winner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p71DzBVSmcI  NOTE
The old Wembley, an orange ball and various rugby tackles!

The Lad from Cornwall was born in Gunnislake and was the first black player to score in a Wembley Cup Final. He first played for Tavistock and signed for Plymouth Argyle in 1962, for whom he scored 27 goals in 71 appearances. So he caught the eye of the Toffees and signed for them in 1965 for £23,000. His debt was against Aston Villa, but he was injured in that game and he only played four reserve games and seven first team games including one cup tie, through the season but was picked for the final ahead of stalwart Fred Pickering, a cunning plan by manager Harry Catterick. He wasn't even in the match day programme line up.
Everton had not conceded a goal in any of the qualifying rounds, something not done since Bury in 1903 and Preston NE did the same in 1889.

In 1968, Trebilcock went to Portsmouth where he made a hundred or so appearances till 1972, then he was Torquay (heading west!), Weymouth and then the Western Suburbs and Darwin in Australia in 1976 where he nestled down. Mike is now 73 years old. Jack Taylor reffed the Final and some may remember a pitch invasion by an over excited Toffee.

UPS AND DOWNS OF THE TERRIERS

On November 2nd 1946 Huddersfield Town, playing in the old First Division (the top one), beat Charlton Athletic 5-1 at home. Nothing special about that, well no, but the Terriers had been on a losing streak prior to that losing in sequence to:
Leeds away 0-5 on October 5th, Wolves a 1-6, Liverpool h 1-4 and Middlesbrough 1-4 over the following three Saturdays, leaving them in the danger zone for relegation. Having lost their first three matches of the season in late August and the next two weeks in September, they were struggling to survive.

The win against Charlton was short lived with a defeat to Grimsby Town away 0-1.
The next matches against Leeds were won 1-0, Wolves 0-1 loss, Liverpool 0-1 loss and Middlesbrough 3-1 win.

By May 26th with a defeat at home to Wolves 0-1, Huddersfield ended up 20th out of 22, third from bottom and safe with 33 points. Brentford (8 points fewer) and Leeds (17 points fewer) were dropped to Division Two.

Town won 13 (11 at home), drew 7 (4 at home) and lost 22 (16 away) scoring 34 at home and 19 goals away, conceding 24 at home and 55 away.

In the next season Town came 19/22, in 1948/9 they came 20/22 and in 1949/50 they climbed to 15th. 1951-2 eventually saw their relegation with Fulham, but they bounced back the following season coming second and were promoted. In 1954 they came 3rd in the First Division and in 1956 they were relegated again.

Here's Jimmy Glazzard leaping high to head one of his four goals against Everton in April 1953, a Division Two game and eventually The Terriers were promoted. Next season, Glazzard became the First Division's top scorer with 29 goals. He scored 142 goals in 299 Town league games.

PLAY UP CORINTH

It was on the 1st of November 1882 that the very famous Corinthian Football Club played its second match ever against the Royal Military College (RMC) at Sandhurst. They lost 1-4 to the Army lads. Prior to this they played St Thomas' Hospital in London winning 2-1 and after the Sandhurst game they visited Brighton College (a school) and lost 1-3.

This was the relatively modest beginning of the club that was soon to become the most famous one in soccer history and even had the honour of "founding" the Brazilian Corinthians. The tour match below:

Much of their history will be found David Bauckham's amazing BLOG, see this link.
https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLNhfvgMlcLsJwmwFrrMjJMZB
There may have been a hint of religion in the name since many of the founding players were wealthy and educated, thus probably "God fearing" or Elite.

The city of Corinth was founded in 600BC by Corinthos, the descendant of the sun god Helios and matched Athens in terms of wealth. Not everyone was able to live or indeed go to Corinth because it was so expensive. There was also a seedier side to the city, inhabited by the prostitutes of Aphrodite in her temple. Corinth has another meaning-"man of fashion and pleasure". Only read this link if you are old enough!!
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161017-it-was-an-ancient-form-of-sex-tourism
The temple of Aphrodite- earth may have moved!!
The Corinthian Club in England was formed by "select" membership based on high standards on and off the field, which captured the essence of a sporting ideology.
Even in the modern day I knew a Corinthian-Casuals player who had been sent off for an indiscretion on the field. By the time he got to the changing room he was met by the club committee and "dismissed".
So if you don't know anything about the Corinthian Club  and later the joint club, the Corinthian-Casuals FC, then have a look at David's wonderful BLOG and you will be entertained and educated.

RIPON CITY AFC

Been to Fountains Abbey today. Autumnal, sunny, walk etc. I did pass through Ripon City (not the one in Wisconsin)-population around 16,700 and steeped in history from its original name of "Inhrypum" a Christian community around 658 located in the Anglian Kingdom.
Through the Vikings, Danelaw, Plantagenets and the success of the wool industry and then dear old Henry VIII, the CITY has benefitted from its site advantages on the Rivers Ure, Laver and Skell confluence and building a canal. It has great soil, loads of hard rock and well terrific roads.
As the third smallest city in England (name the other two?) Ripon has lived on its religious history, market town status and UNESCO HERITAGE site at nearby Fountains Abbey.
The Racetrack is famous being founded in the 18th century and hosting  female race in 1723. The Ripon RUFC was founded in 1886 and the Amateur Football Club in 1898. They play in the West Yorkshire Amateur Football League and run two adult male teams and two adult female teams. I have tried unsuccessfully to search for junior teams but did see some nippers having an half term session this afternoon at the neatly situated club in the city.
RCAFC play at Mallorie Park where they first set up after the First World War. In the 1950s Dickie Bird's dad played for Barnsley FC v Ripon in the Yorkshire Trophy Final winning 1-0 and over the years the club has built a substantial stand and clubhouse.
Sitting half way down/up the West Yorkshire Amateur Football League Division Two with P10 W5 D2 L3 F28 A28, they are coping in local competition from Swillington Saints, Brighouse Old Boys and Glasshoughton Rock.
Best wishes to the City!

HAPPY UNHALLOWEEN-THAT'S THE SPIRIT

Nearly Ghouls and Ghosts time and I have the various frighteners ready for any little twerps that are going to visit my house tomorrow night. We are out!
On October 30th 1954, Billy Holme of Southport FC was married in the morning and spent the next few hours of his "honeymoon" playing Carlisle United in a Division 3 league game. YEP he scored a hat trick, lucky Mrs Holme.

On this day in 1974, Don Revie's England beat Czechoslovakia 3-0 in a Euro qualifier at Wembley. Mick Channon(with the "windmill goal celebration)
 and Colin Bell (2) were the goalscorers. see below....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3FfdgaBomk you can see why England were so good in his time...LOOK AT THE PITCH!

In his first 6 games, Revie's England team did not concede a goal and were unbeaten in 9, even beating West Germany 2-0. On 30/10/1975 the England team eventually lost to the Czechs away who won the qualifying group and eventually won the whole tournament.

On this day in 2012 Arsenal found themselves 0-4 down to Reading after 37 minutes, in a Capital One League Cup tie, away. You may remember, Arsenal made a bit of a come back and won 7-5.

Today in 1960 Diego Maradona was born in Lanus, Argentina! Living in poverty for many years, at the age of 10 he joined Argentinos Juniors and that was the start of his career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShziSQX6hRo   BOOOOOO!

GOLD, HAMMERS AND LINGERIE

Extraordinarily yesterday's Blog on Glen Hoddle notched up ONE reader according to my "posts" record. Well, I normally get 2 hits just by publishing the blog, so what's going on out there? I don't care much about this lack of support, because the half hour or so of research that I spend on a blog keeps me lively on cold afternoons in October. And you are missing some real treats.

Today we are all about ladies' underwear. Jacqueline Gold was on "Desert Island Discs" recently, so my wife told me. Here it is.......
https://player.fm/series/desert-island-discs/jacqueline-gold

I was fully expecting her to launch into a tirade about men "overpowering" women by buying saucy lingerie from Ann Summers and Knickerbox Ltd, to liven up Friday nights but she just suggested that this might be good blog subject to show how empowering women can be and particularly Ms Gold, who has strong footballing links. Jacqueline did work experience at Ann Summers, her father's company, at 19 and two years later took on the "all male boardrooom, made the company female oriented and changed the atmosphere completely. There are now over 100 high street shops with that label that dabble in ladies underwear and sex toys (but watch out for Sainsbury's invasion of this market!!).

Jacqueline was born in Bromley in 1960 and like all blogs there is usually a good link and so I need to warn you about "The Bromley Boys" which is a film about a lad falling in love with a Non-league club, Bromley FC. Inspired by David Roberts' book, TJ Herbert, himself a Bromley boy and actor/producer, created a film about a 15 year old lad and 1969/70 season, the darkest in Bromley's history. Already a cinema "hit" it is released on DVD. About the same time the club found out they were drawn with Peterborough United in the First Round of the FA Cup.

Meanwhile Ms Gold is a seriously successful business woman who is now CEO of Ann Summers and Knickerbox in Old Oxted (that's in Surrey for my northern readers).

Ann Summers was bought by her father, David, in 1972 and stimulated by the success of Tupperware parties, Jacqueline encouraged ladies to do the same but with her goods. This proved a great success, with no men allowed, women could comfortably chat about such things but not plastic boxes of course. As the managing director of the company, she was joined by her sister, Vanessa and became the 16th richest women in Britain.

Where's the football you might ask? Their father David, a West Ham boy who played for the Hammers' Youth team, was born within spitting distance of Upton Park, as it was then. He proved to be very successful in business, but not by following in the footsteps of his father, a well known East End criminal, honest Guv'.
David bought GGI, the parent company of Ann Summers and Knickerbox and also owned an adult magazine company, Gold Star productions, that released saucy mags such as Rustler and Raider on to the British High Street.

David Gold bought the "second" FA Cup for nearly £490,000 to save it "from leaving the country". He was chairman of Birmingham City FC around 2009 and Joint Chairman of West Ham United in 2010. In 2013 he was listed as being worth £350m.
Jacqueline was awarded the CBE in 2016, is a parent and loves football of course.

GLEN HODDLE

It was a challenging day yesterday and to top all the fun and games that I had visiting local games, I got home to hear the news of the Leicester City disaster and then the news of Glen Hoddle's illness.

The Leicester tragedy is closer to many Charterhouse footballers because the club very kindly hosted the Independent Schools' Cup Final and Charterhouse School was fortunate enough to play at Filbert Street in 2000 and the Walkers' Stadium (as it was known then, now the King Power) in 2007 and 2011. Leicester City were fine hosts and the boys enjoyed their time at the Foxes' home ground.
Glen Hoddle would have graced these grounds at some stage either as a player, manager or pundit and it was sad to hear that he was taken ill while working for BT Sports yesterday. It was his 61st birthday. The link below will take you to a news item but more importantly photos of Glen during his colourful career.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/glen-hoddle-latest-former-england-manager-in-hospital-after-collapsing-at-bt-studios-a3973506.html

You should know all about Glen's footballing and managing career, beginning in 1974 when Martin Chivers presented the cup and medals at a local schools' tournament and he spotted Glen.
This took Hoddle to Spurs as an 11 year old in 1974. In 1987 he went to AS Monaco and Chelsea in 1991 briefly before managing at Swindon Town, a remarkable move but he stopped them from being relegated to the old Division Three and then took them to the Premier League. He then, with John Gorman, joined Chelsea.
In 1993 he was player-manager and "retired" from playing in 1995.
He took the club to the FA Cup Final but they were thumped 4-0 by Manchester United. He left Chelsea in 1996 to do a job for England.

In 1996 England came calling and he managed the national side for 3 years until he made a statement about disabled people and public opinion voted him out of the job in 2000.
During his "spell" with England he failed to pick Gascoigne for the 1998 squad, subjected the team to Eileen Drewery's "faith healing" and his "born again Christianity".  The team was known as the "Hod squad".

In 2000-1 Glen was manager at Southampton and once again had a positive influence keeping them in the Premier League in 2001 as they had their highest division position of 10th since 1995.

Hoddle was sacked by Spurs in September 2003 when his team lost 1-3 to Southampton.

His final effort in management was with Wolves where during 76 games , his team drew 34 times in two seasons. The locals objected to this and eventually Glen gave up in 2006!
He then dabbled with a Football Academy and kept an eye on Spurs' as they mucked around with managers and then went for punditry.
Hence his presence with BT Sports yesterday.
He played nearly 550 games and scored 144 goals.
For England 1979-88 53 apps 8 goals.
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