July 26th Friendly - Newcastle United

[Up the Shrimpers]

Not the only high scoring match "Mitten's marvels" were involved in that season. They beat Man United 7-3 and Everton 8-2 !

Any team details ? Ivor Allchurch perhaps ?

Friday 6th May 1960 Southend United v Newcastle United
Sam McCrory, Arthur Williamson & Sandy Anderson Testimonial Match
Line ups as per the Programme
Southend:-

Threadgold
Williamson
Anderson
Costello
Watson
Dicks
Stenhouse
Corthine
MCrory
Price
Wall

Newcastle:-
Harvey
Keith
McMichael
Scoular
Stokoe
Bell
Hughes
Allchurch
White
McGuigan
Luke

As already pointed out the we lost 3-6 and that followed a 5-1 defeat to West Ham in another Testimonial match a few days before this one.

Actually out of the three players only Sandy Anderson had been here 10 years the other two had 5 years service.

 

[Tommy2holes]

I would imagine there will be a decent crowd in for this one.

Maybe even 10k

 

[RHB]

Plenty of seats available in the West Stand. You can buy tickets on line now but they are not available for collection until the 20th according to the web site.

 

[Firestorm]

yes we did then jimmy greaves put the kiss of death on us and finished 11th

I think it had more to do with Uncle Vic not giving money to Webby to strengthen our position

 

[Zeuss]

Friday 6th May 1960 Southend United v Newcastle United
Sam McCrory, Arthur Williamson & Sandy Anderson Testimonial Match
Line ups as per the Programme
Southend:-

Threadgold
Williamson
Anderson
Costello
Watson
Dicks
Stenhouse
Corthine
MCrory
Price
Wall

Newcastle:-
Harvey
Keith
McMichael
Scoular
Stokoe
Bell
Hughes
Allchurch
White
McGuigan
Luke

As already pointed out the we lost 3-6 and that followed a 5-1 defeat to West Ham in another Testimonial match a few days before this one.

Actually out of the three players only Sandy Anderson had been here 10 years the other two had 5 years service.

Blimey! Just how many years were we ahead of our time?With that line-up we must have played with a false number 9!

 

[Mick]

who was the ref ? :winking:

 

[Zeuss]

who was the ref ? :winking:

Well-known local officials,Mick.
M. Key was backed by F.Popplewell and E.Eighteen.
+ 1 change to the line-up....(young Scotsman) Laird played inside-left and Dudley Price switched to outside-left.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I would imagine there will be a decent crowd in for this one.

Maybe even 10k

No chance, 6k tops.

 

[Tommy2holes]

No chance, 6k tops.

I think you might be surprised.

 

[Napster]

Well-known local officials,Mick.
M. Key was backed by F.Popplewell and E.Eighteen.

Hold on, I know that name.

 

[Mick]

Well-known local officials,Mick.
M. Key was backed by F.Popplewell and E.Eighteen.
+ 1 change to the line-up....(young Scotsman) Laird played inside-left and Dudley Price switched to outside-left.

Ah .... Maurice Key one of my assessors many years decades ago, when I started to work my (short) way up the refereeing ladder. Lovely man, good advice delivered in a friendly way. In stark contrast to most of the other assessors.

 

[Harry Bullocks]

New Years Day, 1992 won 4-0, that was a good day, didn`t we go top for a few hours? I think it was a 12:00 kick off.

Cracking game, i was there.....quick question.....didn't David Webb knock on the Chairman's door after the game, asking (demanding), a little reward and recognition ?

Closely followed by said Chairman declining his request, Webby walked and we tumbled down the table(s)...a true version of events ?

 

[Shrimperforlife]

I think you might be surprised.

even the crazy magpies won't bring that many to this......or will they?

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

even the crazy magpies won't bring that many to this......or will they?

I remember a few seasons ago, they played orient away in preseason and took over 2,000!

 

[fbm]

Cracking game, i was there.....quick question.....didn't David Webb knock on the Chairman's door after the game, asking (demanding), a little reward and recognition ?

Closely followed by said Chairman declining his request, Webby walked and we tumbled down the table(s)...a true version of events ?

Almost.

Webby wanted to negotiate the players contracts himself but Vic wouldn't let him. They had been negotiating for months on this.

After the Newcastle game Webby handed his notice in. This was meant to be a statement by Webby to say "I'm serious about this".

Sadly someone leaked it to the press and I think they stirred up a hornets nest between the two men. Too much was said and it became irreconcilable.

The following week we lost to Everton in the FA Cup and it all went downhill from there.

 

[Greebosan]

I think you might be surprised.

Agreed, I'm bringing at least 3 friends from work who I have been trying to tempt down for ages. One mention of the Toon Army coming to town and they booked in.

 

[mfurok]

I remember a few seasons ago, they played orient away in preseason and took over 2,000!

.....and lost 6-1!

 

[south247]

Any season ticket having the same problems as me trying to book their Newcastle seat online? As per usual seat unavailable so I will have to do the old fashioned way of waiting on the phone line for an age. The club really need to sort this out. Will no doubt be the same for the cup games.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Any season ticket having the same problems as me trying to book their Newcastle seat online? As per usual seat unavailable so I will have to do the old fashioned way of waiting on the phone line for an age. The club really need to sort this out. Will no doubt be the same for the cup games.

Nope. I logged in, went to home tickets and they were in my basket waiting for me

 

[Suffolk Blue]

Any season ticket having the same problems as me trying to book their Newcastle seat online? As per usual seat unavailable so I will have to do the old fashioned way of waiting on the phone line for an age. The club really need to sort this out. Will no doubt be the same for the cup games.

I was expecting problems as I had changed my 3 Family Stand seats for 4 in a different area. Instead I logged in, and found my seats waiting for me in my basket.