Memory Lane Old Photos of Southend United.

[LBBlue]

We played in the WBA strip against Aldershot on Easter Monday 7 April 69 won 4-2, the Ipswich strip against Bradford PA on 14 April, won 5-0, Chelsea against Swansea Town on 18 th April won 4-0 and the last home game of the season Coventry strip against Newport County 28 April won 1-0 with a last minute goal from John Kurila. The crowd was nearly 12,000 and I can remember the announcer (Frank Gill?) urging the crowd to get behind the team just before Kurila scored his only league goal for us. As they say the crowd went wild.

So 4 wins in borrowed strips.

 

[LBBlue]

Seem to recall that the supporters were asked to choose a shirt design at the end of a season in the 60s for the following season. The 1st team would ware a different blue shirt for 6 or 7 home games. I recall that the fans went with the Chelsea blue shirts and shorts. But other kits that they played in I recall were Coventry (sky blue) WBA (blue stripes) Scotland (dark blue) and an Ipswich (blue & white)

The bit in the Newport Programme
then Billy and Gary playing for the Baggies
then Ipswich
and then Chelsea with Chico.

Look how close they are to each other!

 

[Sammy Shrimper]

I and a lot of other supporters of a certain age will tell you that the Scotland navy blue shirt was the best ever shirt .

1968 was my first season as a 6 year old. The FA cup games clearly spoilt me!
Remember dad taking me to see the score of the Mansfield game shown in the window of the Southend Standard office.

 

[Napster]

From the early days - Billy Hick and O'Rawe, 1926.jpg

 

[Napster]

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[Napster]

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[Rayleigh boy]

I see Bobby Moore is wearing a bracelet ....

Question ....

His wife said Moore would never ever grass anyone up BUT he definitely did not nick the bracelet in the famous Mexico 68 World Cup missing bracelet scandal - when Bobby was banged up and accused.

She did say she felt sorry for the girl in the shop - implying it was not a set up and something had indeed gone missing.

Who was the other player with Bobby Moore in the shop ?

 

[rigsby]

I see Bobby Moore is wearing a bracelet ....

Question ....

His wife said Moore would never ever grass anyone up BUT he definitely did not nick the bracelet in the famous Mexico 68 World Cup missing bracelet scandal - when Bobby was banged up and accused.

She did say she felt sorry for the girl in the shop - implying it was not a set up and something had indeed gone missing.

Who was the other player with Bobby Moore in the shop ?

Bobby Charlton

 

[LCBB72]

I see Bobby Moore is wearing a bracelet ....

Question ....

His wife said Moore would never ever grass anyone up BUT he definitely did not nick the bracelet in the famous Mexico 68 World Cup missing bracelet scandal - when Bobby was banged up and accused.

She did say she felt sorry for the girl in the shop - implying it was not a set up and something had indeed gone missing.

Who was the other player with Bobby Moore in the shop ?

Peter Osgood , and he had side burns like Bobby .

 

[Whispering Bob]

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Hoggy, you look a bit like Rylan in that photo.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

For those of you that are not aware I've been running a 'SUEPA Scrapbook' series on the SUEPA Facebook and Twitter pages. I've just posted up another batch this eve (our 10th batch) and below is one of them. It would be a bit tedious to put them all up on here as I have to go through an image reduction process to get them loaded on SZ so do pop over to the SUEPA social media pages if you would like to see more. The latest batch (and a whole load more I've just got in) are from a Shrimpers fan who responded to an appeal in the latest SUEPA Newsletter for folk to dive in their attics and see what old Southend pics they might have. The one below as a sample includes Eddie Firmani so will be from the mid 60's.
Cheers.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Not worth watching is it? Surely we can't beat Shilton & co over two legs? Here's the 2nd leg.
Derby v Southend 1987-88 League Cup. A lot of you will be asking, who's Nogan at number 9? He had 2 loan spells with us, scoring 1 in 11 appearances, and is a member of SUEPA. We also have our two match summarisers for BBC Essex here, with Paul Clark as Manager and Glenn Pennyfather playing.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Southend v Blackburn 1991. Who would have thought that Blackburn would get promoted to the new Premier League at the end of the 1991-92 season.

 

[Whispering Bob]

I (literally) bumped into King Kenny, clad in THAT coat in the reception that night.

 

[Stuart W]

Thanks, Seventies North Bank for bringing back what I consider the best ever thread on Shrimperzone (by a country mile)! 100 pages of great memories.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Southend v Blackburn 1991. Who would have thought that Blackburn would get promoted to the new Premier League at the end of the 1991-92 season.

That was Kenny's 1st game as their Manager!.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

Robbed in the return match at Ewood Park, drew 2-2 from being 2-0 up. David Speedie getting both, the equaliser in the closing minutes.

However, my abiding memory of that game was a phenomenal last ditch tackle in the penalty area by Dean Austin, took the ball clean as you like!

 

[The Big Dady]

This is one of my favourite threads on ShrimperZone, long may it continue.

This is my 21st Birthday present to the ShrimperZone..

(BUMP)

 

[WickfordShrimper]

Not seen this before

 

[Letmein]

Robbed in the return match at Ewood Park, drew 2-2 from being 2-0 up. David Speedie getting both, the equaliser in the closing minutes.

However, my abiding memory of that game was a phenomenal last ditch tackle in the penalty area by Dean Austin, took the ball clean as you like!

I wasn’t at the game, but had us at 16/1 to win 2-1. I still hate David Speedie for that!