Re: Why Leeds United ?
Posted: 19 Oct 2018, 09:34
Great post Grumpy
Ditto, enjoyed the readNottinghamWhite wrote:Great post Grumpy
Ah! So you’re the old bugger who’s over 80 in the ‘How old are you’ topic. Another three years and I’ll be joining you .johnh wrote:Grumpy, if you played local football on a Saturday and Sunday, our paths must have crossed at some time as I am only 6 years older than you. I played Yorkshire League on Saturdays but played several seasons on Sunday morning. In fact, I played when the Sunday league first started when there was only one division! Which clubs did you play for?
My Yorkshire League clubs were Yorkshire Amateur, Harrogate Town and Ossett Town. My Sunday league clubs were, Leeds United Supporters club (when they played on the pitches behind the main stand, was it called Fullerton Park?, before we were kicked off as Leeds said the pitch was getting too much wear.) I then played for The Plasterer's Arms (a pub on Meanwood road). We had a team of 11 Yorkshire League players and won the first division. (The guests at our celebration dinner were big Jack Charlton and Peter Gunby.) Finally, I played for Palmers Tyers who were another team of Yorkshire League players. My Yorkshire league career was from 1957 - 1968. My Sunday league was from 1961 - 1967.Grumpy wrote:Ah! So you’re the old bugger who’s over 80 in the ‘How old are you’ topic. Another three years and I’ll be joining you .johnh wrote:Grumpy, if you played local football on a Saturday and Sunday, our paths must have crossed at some time as I am only 6 years older than you. I played Yorkshire League on Saturdays but played several seasons on Sunday morning. In fact, I played when the Sunday league first started when there was only one division! Which clubs did you play for?
Anyway, when I first went to Leeds, on Saturdays I played (probably for less than a season) with a Seacroft Club, the name of which I can’t remember (a Working Man’s club?). I got to playing with them because they used to play just off Oakwood Lane opposite where I lived at the time. After that I played with Micklefield and then Leeds Ashley Road in the Yorkshire League. On Sunday mornings I played with the Leeds United Supporters Club. At that time they were playing on the LICS ground at the junction of Geldered Road and Lowfields Road. I can’t remember the years I played with them but we won the Sunday League Cup. I know I was playing with them in the early 70’s ‘cos I was playing with them before I migrated to Oz in Feb 1975. Jack Roberts and his son Eric used to run the team when I was playing. I was also playing mid-week games with the Police team so I was pretty fit in those days!! Anyway, enough of my drivel who did you play with?
Near Adelaide in the hills to the east of the city I believe?Davycc wrote:Hi Grumpy, a great story to which I can relate to in many ways Where abouts are you in the world and I'll add you to our members maps.
P.S. am loving reading grumpy and john's exchanges, it's like Smith & Jones all over again.PockWhite wrote:Near Adelaide in the hills to the east of the city I believe?Davycc wrote:Hi Grumpy, a great story to which I can relate to in many ways Where abouts are you in the world and I'll add you to our members maps.
I'm enjoying it too, and I'm a roaming Reading fan - a wonderful forum this isPockWhite wrote:P.S. am loving reading grumpy and john's exchanges, it's like Smith & Jones all over again.PockWhite wrote:Near Adelaide in the hills to the east of the city I believe?Davycc wrote:Hi Grumpy, a great story to which I can relate to in many ways Where abouts are you in the world and I'll add you to our members maps.
Grumpy, just thinking about it, was your Seacroft club East End Park WMC? They played at Skelton Road, just off York Road.Grumpy wrote:Ah! So you’re the old bugger who’s over 80 in the ‘How old are you’ topic. Another three years and I’ll be joining you .johnh wrote:Grumpy, if you played local football on a Saturday and Sunday, our paths must have crossed at some time as I am only 6 years older than you. I played Yorkshire League on Saturdays but played several seasons on Sunday morning. In fact, I played when the Sunday league first started when there was only one division! Which clubs did you play for?
Anyway, when I first went to Leeds, on Saturdays I played (probably for less than a season) with a Seacroft Club, the name of which I can’t remember (a Working Man’s club?). I got to playing with them because they used to play just off Oakwood Lane opposite where I lived at the time. After that I played with Micklefield and then Leeds Ashley Road in the Yorkshire League. On Sunday mornings I played with the Leeds United Supporters Club. At that time they were playing on the LICS ground at the junction of Geldered Road and Lowfields Road. I can’t remember the years I played with them but we won the Sunday League Cup. I know I was playing with them in the early 70’s ‘cos I was playing with them before I migrated to Oz in Feb 1975. Jack Roberts and his son Eric used to run the team when I was playing. I was also playing mid-week games with the Police team so I was pretty fit in those days!! Anyway, enough of my drivel who did you play with?