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After the totally depressing events of the Cambridge match and now Luton I thought I would like to add a more positive post. I have been helping a researcher in Accrington and I came across the following clip from the Southend Standard in 1925 about the then new Southend goalkeeper Billy Moore .
MOORE GETS THE CROWD
Moore who came into the team as a result of Hayes injury can now claim to have two good games to his credit. The way he held the fort for the first twenty minutes on Saturday made him a firm favourite with the crowd. At half time he was made the subject of two ovations. Had it been allowed he would have been carried shoulder high by the partisans near the pavilion as he fled out to the changing rooms. When he took up his position in the other goal he was given a great reception. He turned to face his work in this second period in the knowledge that every man behind him on the bank was a friend. Naturally this was great encouragement to a young keeper. During the second moiety Moore came out to clear but two other players rose from behind him and he was left prone. The play was stopped and the trainer called. Everywhere around the arena not a sound was heard. He rose, straightened his limbs and waked back to his charge. That moment there rang out a cheer that people in the fun fair adjoining might have thought it was a signal of another goal. The crowd new their champion was not badly hurt.
From the Southend Standard 1st October 1925.
MOORE GETS THE CROWD
Moore who came into the team as a result of Hayes injury can now claim to have two good games to his credit. The way he held the fort for the first twenty minutes on Saturday made him a firm favourite with the crowd. At half time he was made the subject of two ovations. Had it been allowed he would have been carried shoulder high by the partisans near the pavilion as he fled out to the changing rooms. When he took up his position in the other goal he was given a great reception. He turned to face his work in this second period in the knowledge that every man behind him on the bank was a friend. Naturally this was great encouragement to a young keeper. During the second moiety Moore came out to clear but two other players rose from behind him and he was left prone. The play was stopped and the trainer called. Everywhere around the arena not a sound was heard. He rose, straightened his limbs and waked back to his charge. That moment there rang out a cheer that people in the fun fair adjoining might have thought it was a signal of another goal. The crowd new their champion was not badly hurt.
From the Southend Standard 1st October 1925.
