Blackpool's line had no punch
RAIDS IN VAIN
Manchester City 1, Blackpool 0
THE absence of Stanley Matthews and a temperature down ' in the 30’s made thousands of people in Manchester this afternoon decide that there is no place like home.
For the first time this season when Blackpool have been on tour there were no queues outside the gates an hour before the kick-off.
Snow was drifting down wind, and there was a thin carpet of it over three quarters of the City’s ground.
Fewer than 5,000 people were huddled out on the terraces when the teams appeared and the total attendance was fewer than 25,000, the smallest of the season on a ground which can accommodate 70,000.
MANCHESTER CITY Swift, Sproston, Westwood, Walsh, McDowall, Emptage, Linacre, Murray, Fagan, Smith, Clarke.
BLACKPOOL: Robinson, Shimwell, Suart, Johnston, Hayward, Kelly, Munro, Mortensen, McIntosh, Dick, McCormack.
Referee: Mr. W. Prescott, (Southport).
As there was no band to play for them, hundreds of Blackpool people chanted ‘‘Yes, we have no bananas” as their team won the toss.
Johnston and McIntosh opened two early raids which ended outside shooting range of Swift. It was neat, assured football that Blackpool played in the opening minutes.
A free kick crossed by Kelly after Dick had been summarily halted out on the left, prefaced a couple of escapes for the City, the offside whistle ending one as Mortensen was preparing to shoot into a gaping goal, and the inside-right shooting wide in the second after the England goalkeeper had half hit a flying ball down to him.
ACCURATE PASSES
Every Blackpool pass found its man for a time. The City were retreating on to their own goal uninterruptedly.
For minutes Blackpool continued to play football of remarkable quality on a field which was a sheet of ice where it was not a quarter cf an inch deep in snow.
In one City attack Clarke shot low into the arms of Robinson, but it was the City’s goal which in the first quarter of an hour was nearly all the time being menaced.
Mortensen ended a solo raid by lofting a shot high over the bar as the ball bounced at a crazy angle away from him. The City could make no sort of progress in the face of the drifting snow and wind.
Swift had to dive out full length to reach a back pass which Mortensen was chasing after Dick had shot wide from a speculative range.
McCormack was repeatedly crossing perfect centres from his wing.
The City’s forwards were in several brisk but belated raids afterwards, but there had not been one serious test for Robinson with 17 minutes gone.
The Blackpool wing halfbacks Johnston and Kelly were brilliant, opening attack after attack which had the City’s half - backs and full - backs penned in their own half.
The first corner came in the 19th minute as Westwood hooked Dick’s shot out anywhere with his goalkeeper out of position.
CITY SCORE
Lead taken against run of play
In the next minute the City took the lead all against the game’s course.
Two centres raked Blackpool's goal. The second Robinson leaped out at, half hit the flying ball, fell in the slime with nearly half a dozen men on top of him.
The rest was simple for SMITH, who, finding himself unexpectedly in a scoring position, lobbed the ball over this pack into the empty goal.
Afterwards the City were at last an aggressive, fast team. Shimwell, Hayward and Suart made grand clearances in rapid succession.
Then Murray raced into a position where he might have scored, but instead hit the side net.
Blackpool’s football still had a remarkable precision about it on such a pitch, but it was creating singularly few shooting positions, and always seemed to contain that one pass too many.
RETREATING
Otherwise, there were times when it had the City's defence scattering and retreating, but always intercepting the last pass before a shooting position could be made
When at last a shot came it was from a half-back, Johnston swerving two men in a corkscrew raid out on the left and forcing Swift to hold a ball which came at him fast and low.
A minute later this great goalkeeper snatched a Mortensen shot from under the bar.
Blackpool’s pressure continued, and McIntosh shot so fast that when the ball cannoned back off McDowell the centre-half rocked in his tracks and knew nothing whatever about it.
Except for City breakaways Blackpool’s pressure continued almost non-stop in the closing minutes of the half.
Half-time: Manchester City 1. Blackpool 0.
Second Half
Robinson was soon in action when this half opened, punching out Linacre’s centre before holding and clearing a rocketing shot by Clarke.
In Blackpool’s first raid McIntosh shot wide from a pass by McCormack, whose football was distinctly impressive.
In the next minute Walsh - crossed fast to intercept a pass which would have left McIntosh all on his own in one of the few shooting positions which had been offered to the Blackpool forwards all the afternoon.
It was the City’s, forwards who were shooting with still far less of the game, Fagan shaking the side net after chasing Linacre’s forward pass with the Blackpool defence for once in disorder.
The wind had almost fallen and the sun was actually shining as Blackpool won the first corner of the half in the Sixth minute.
KELLY CLEARS
Kelly made a desperate clearance after his full backs had been passed by a City forward line at last raiding all out.
In the 12th minute of the half these forwards won their first corner of the match, forced another half a minute later, and within less than another half minute made it three.
Blackpool’s first half command of the game was beginning to wane and yet in a breakaway it might have been 1-1 if McIntosh, perfectly put in possession by Munro, had not sliced his pass astray with two forwards waiting for it almost under the bar.
NEAR DOWNFALL
Blackpool raided often afterwards. Mortensen in one lone raid forced a corner all on his own, and this corner had not been cleared before the City’s goal had been nearer downfall than it had ever been all the match.
Munro crossed the corner perfectly. Swift leaped at it, missed it and left his goal open. Sproston cleared from the empty line.
In the next minute Swift made a great punch clearance as McIntosh shot a fast, rising ball at him from 20 yards out. There were signs that tinder pressure the defences were beginning to lose a little of their composure.
Blackpool’s full-backs conceded a couple of corners before the City defence forfeited another two.
From the second of these Blackpool were near to a goal again, Swift making a great diving clearance from Dick’s header.
With 15 minutes left Blackpool were still raiding in vain for that elusive goal for which they had been raiding two thirds of the afternoon.
So it went on to the end but the goal never came.
Result:
MANCHESTER CITY 1 (Smith 20 min)
BLACKPOOL 0
A Blackpool forward line which in the open played almost exhibition football, but in front of goal had scarcely a shot in it lost a match for Blackpool for the first time since Christmas Day.
It was almost incredible that forwards could raid for so long without scoring a goal or so seldom create positions from which goals could be scored.
As aggressive and tireless as ever was Mortensen, but the rest had no comparable punch.
This time, too - and it made a lot of difference - there was no Matthews to lure a defence out of position to leave the other four forwards where goals could be shot.
McCormack was elusive out on the wing and Munro was seldom subdued on the other in the second half, but it was all too inconclusive.
The forwards had plenty of passes. Kelly and Johnston ensured that by a game of complete excellence.
The defence, once the City’s forwards stormed belatedly into the game during the second half, retrieved every desperate crisis and there were not many of them - in which it found itself.
Somebody said as one pass after another found its man; "Blackpool play good football.”
The truth is that Blackpool probably played too good football, too close and complex on a pitch which demanded the long, fast pass.
The attendance was 28,833.
It's no Klondyke these days
By “Spectator”
FOR only the second time in recorded history a Blackpool team is in the Cup quarter-finals. What’s it been worth in £ s. d. ?
The answer to that is “Not such a lot.” The club’s percentage of the receipts from the first three ties would scarcely, at current market prices, be sufficient to buy Mr. Len Shackleton’s two big toes.
Out of the till at Craven Cottage next weekend Blackpool will be paid between £1,500 and £1,750 if the customers pass £5,000 or £6,000 over the turnstile counters.
Little over a quarter of the gross receipts is taken by each club out of a Cuptie today. Total receipts at the three Blackpool ties - the Leeds, Chester and Colchester matches - were £9,214.
When the Chancellor has had his tax and the visiting club a third of the balance and another third has been allotted to the Cup pool there was, I estimate, left for Blackpool less than £2.250 from the three matches.
Less than £4,000
IT is conceivable that when the A Fulham match ends next weekend Blackpool as a club will be richer from the Cup by less than £4.000.
And out of this figure compensation will have to be paid to Sunderland for the postponement of the match at Roker Park a fortnight ago and to Burnley for the transfer of next week’s game to a midweek date late in the season.
What price glory? Not such a high price on that sort of budget.
Not many clubs can have gone as far in the Cup and made as little out of it. None of them is making what the public think is being made. There is actually a prospect that Blackpool may reach the semi-finals of a tournament which is always represented as the game’s biggest money- spinner and still count as profit a figure less than the fees which Hull City paid for Willie Buchan a few weeks ago.
But no laments
NOT that they are lamenting about it in these parts. It is sufficient for most people that Blackpool have at last banished the Cup hoodoo which has haunted the clubs for years.
The directorate are no less content. The semi-finals and the final - if Blackpool can only qualify for either and preferably for both - will gild all the glory with a bit of old gold. But there will not be such a lot even of that.
Receipts at Wembley last year bordered on £44,000, but when entertainment tax of nearly £20,000 had been deducted and a third of the remaining total taken by the F.A., Burnley and Charlton Athletic each came home with only £3,949, which was £1,400 less than Portsmouth and the Wolves made in 1939.
Prestige, but -
A TEAM could win the Cup these days and show a profit of not a lot over £10,000. There is prestige, too, but that (as they say) butters no parsnips.
No Klondyke the Cup these days.
The players make a bit out of it, but not a fortune.
The Blackpool men have already won a £2 bonus in the third round, £4 in the fourth, and £6 in the fifth, and in the last eight cannot qualify for less than £220 as a team in talent money, which makes a grand total, if you can call it grand, of £32 each.
The winning bonus will rise to £8 at Fulham next week, and the talent money for entering the semi-finals by another £110, or, forgetting the 12th man - who, when the pay-out comes, will insist on not being forgotten! - an extra £10 a man, increasing the team’s additional income from the Cup, if they win, to £50 a man.
Rising bonus
IN the semi-final the bonus for a win reaches £15 and ihe talent prize is increased by another £10 each, and for winning the Cup there is a £20 bonus and another £10 each.
So the player who walks up to the King for his winning medal at Wembley walks out too, with an extra 100 guineas for all his Cupties to pay into his bank account.
Very nice, too. And yet if anybody can go into retirement and live in luxury for the rest of his mortal days on that I should be glad to know how it’s done.
Yes, they win a lot of glory in the Cup these days, just as long as they remain in it, but precious little else, even if they are in it to the death.
Jottings from all parts
BY "SPECTATOR" 21 February 1948
Yes, they have no words
CLAIM of the hand of ex-Servicemen who in recent times have been playing at the Blackpool matches - and everybody is glad to hear them - is that the team have never lost when they have been greeted with the old signature tune of the 'twenties, "Yes, we have no bananas”
Now the Supporters’ Club, I am told, want the people to sing the song as the band play it.
Alas, they have not the words and cannot find a sheet of music containing them. They would be glad if somebody could supply the lyric to their headquarters at the football ground.
I leave it to the students of the old folk songs.
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DENIS COMPTON, the England Test match cricketer, who played his first game of the season for Arsenal last weekend, has made one or two appearances in the Arsenal front line against Blackpool.
He was in the famous championship-of-England match at Stamford Bridge in 1943, when, in the greatest classic of the war, Blackpool won 4-2. Denis scored one of Arsenal’s goals.
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WHAT a record Grimsby Town have.
The Cinderellas of the First Division have not won a match this year or had not won one before today.
Last victory was at Chelsea on December 27, and the last time the team won at home was on September 17.
Yet when you meet the Town’s chairman, Mr. George Pearce, as I had the pleasure of meeting him again at Blackpool last weekend, you hear from him no tale of woe. In adversity or prosperity - they are always the same at Grimsby.
Why, when Blackpool won at Blundell Park in September and so early the writing was on the wall, one of the directors came out to the Blackpool coach after the match for no other reason than to congratulate the men who had beaten his team.
IT is about time, I think, that somebody gave a pat on the back to Ronnie Suart, the Blackpool full-back, one of the three men - the other two are his partners in Blackpool’s best- ever defence, Eddie Shimwell and Eric Hayward - who have not missed a match this season.
This former centre-half from Netherfield was converted into a full-back during the Continental tour last close season. It naturally took him a month or two to settle in an unfamiliar position. But he has retained the position, in spite of a little criticism early in the season, and today he is playing with a confidence which is increasing in every match.
The turning-point, I think, was on the day in December when he played such a good game against Tom Finney when everybody was expecting the Preston forward to make hay of him.
HARRY CLIFTON, the forward who in his early days at Newcastle promised to climb the highest peaks in the game, has not played a match since he was hurt in the Grimsby Town-Blackpool match nearly four months ago.
I was sorry to be given that news when the Town were in Blackpool, guests at Stanley Matthews’ hotel, last weekend.
Clifton has had to have cartilage operation and he is at the age when a cartilage operation is serious. Ask Bob Finan.
He can tell you that.
“HOUSE FULL” notices are certain at Blackpool on two days at Easter. Derby County are the visitors on Good Friday, Arsenal the following day.
For months there have been letters in the Blackpool mailbag from Derby and London fans applying for tickets. I am assured that if all those folks had been sold tickets there would not be a seat left in the stands even now.
All applications have been returned. Not a ticket has yet been sold.
There was a comparable mail for the Burnley match on February 28. Now the match has had to be postponed, having clashed with the Fulham Cup-tie.
Never was there such a boom in Blackpool football. If only that stadium had been built.
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THOSE folk - and there are a few of them - who are never happier than when they are discrediting somebody or other have noticed the absence of George Farrow the former Blackpool wing-half, from recent Sheffield United teams and said, “What did we tell you?” That is unfair on this halfback. He is out of the Sheffield team because he is ill with an attack of sciatica.
There have been no complaints about him at Bramall-lane, where they are convinced he will be in the First Division team again before many weeks have passed.
STRANGEST forward line of the season was fielded by Grimsby Town at Blackpool last week.
In it were four centre-forwards - the two men on the right wing; Billy Cairns, who led the line for the first hour, and Billy Pearson, who moved into the position from outside-left after Blackpool’s second goal.
The Town have the men who can shoot goals. The forwards this season have scored only seven fewer than the Blackpool front-line.
It’s the defence which is so vulnerable. It lost its 79th goal of the season at Blackpool last weekend, its 53rd in away games. At this rate it will be beating the Blackpool record of conceding 125 goals in the 1930-31 year.
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TWELVE months ago the public, - or a noisy partisan section - were demanding, “Transfer him.” They barracked him.
One man only had faith in him, his manager. If he had not had that! faith the player nobody wanted would have been transferred last summer for a petty-cash fee.
Now he is in First Division football again, he has been reconverted into a centre - forward, where years ago he made his name, and has scored nine goals in his last eight games, including three Cup-ties.
The name is Jim McIntosh, the Man Who Came Back.
NO COMPLAINTS
THE Blackpool public will not watch their team in a home game again until March 13 - unless a draw is played at Fulham next weekend.
The Cup-tie is followed by a visit to Portsmouth before Bolton Wanderers come to town for a First Division match.
Not that the people in these parts can complain. There has been no austerity ration for them since the New Year opened. Six of the first team’s last seven games have been played at home - and Blackpool have won the lot with a goal aggregate of 22-1.
All this in a month and a half after not winning a match in December.
Tweedy's record
WHAT a grand goalkeeper George Tweedy still is.
It was in 1932, two years before Jock Wallace came to Blackpool, that he was enlisted by Grimsby from the North-Eastern club. Willington, his home-town.
Today except for Ted Sagar, of Everton, he is the longest-serving goalkeeper in the First Division, and has always been content to remain at Blundell Park, where they know how to make their players content.
They cannot produce a winning team at Grimsby, but they can make a happy one. Not every club can do that.
BOTH GRAND AT HALF, BUT BLACKPOOL SHOULD HAVE PULL FORWARD
“From our London Football Correspondent”
SOMEBODY, of course, must win the Fulham-Blackpool Cuptie, and I think it will be Blackpool. If Blackpool reach the semi-final, I am sure that it will be due to their forwards.
The play of Matthews, Mortensen, McIntosh and Munro is more likely to unsettle Fulham’s halfback line than anything that Thomas (S.), Thomas (R.), Stevens and Shepherd can accomplish against the
Blackpool middle line.
If my judgement is correct Blackpool’s approach work in attack is better than Fulham’s, and I am convinced that the Blackpool forwards can round it off with enough goals to win.
In defence there is not much to choose between the teams.
In any event, I feel that this Cup-tie will be the match of the sixth round.
I have a reason for believing that, of course.
During the last few weeks I have watched both the Blackpool and Fulham players in action.
Throughout the season, except perhaps for Arsenal, I have not run across a club which has a better halfback line than these teams.
And the side with an efficient halfback line is to be feared.
Whichever side wins at Fulham the 45,000 capacity crowd. I am sure, will have ample opportunity of expanding their lungs.
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Something to avenge
FULHAM have a defeat which cost the club its Second Division status to avenge when Blackpool go to Craven Cottage next weekend.
Most people in these parts have forgotten the match. Yet at the time it made a headline splash in football.
Circumstances worked out a grand climax to the relegation dog fight in the division. Fulham came to Blackpool for the last match of the season. The team to lose went down.
Fulham were beaten 4-0, Jimmy Hampson, in his first season for Blackpool, scoring three of the goals, and the ex-South Shields sharpshooter, Jack Oxberry, the other.
That was in 1928. It took Fulham four years to climb out of the Third Division.
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FIGURING IT OUT
IN this season’s F.A. Cup competition, Fulham have the following record:
Beat Doncaster Rovers 2-0 (at Fulham).
Beat Bristol Rovers 5-2 (at Fulham).
Drew with Everton 1-1 (at Fulham).
Beat Everton 1-0 (at Goodison Park).
Fulham goal-scorers:
Stevens 4 (“hat trick” against Bristol Rovers), Ayres 3, Quested 1, Thomas (R) 1.
Cup appearances of players:
Hinton (4). Freeman (4), Bacuzzi (4), Quested (4). Taylor (4). Wallbanks (1), Beasley (1). Thomas. S (3). Thomas. R (4), Stevens (4), Ayres (4). Edwards (1), Jones (1), Grant (1), Bewley (1).
Fulham colours: White shirts, black shorts. Manager, Mr. Jack Peart. Trainer, Frank Penn, an old outside-left, who was with Fulham for many years.
Fulham team can touch heights of football
Statements about Fulham's chances are scarce at Craven Cottage. Jack Peart, the manager, seldom boasts or talks of what he does.
Mr Peart seemed pleased when Fulham were drawn to play against Blackpool, because, as he put it, “the more skilful the opposition the better our lads play.”
There is something in this, adds our London correspondent. When Fulham trounced Newcastle United 3-0 their dazzling football just bewildered the northern players.
The nearest approach I have seen to Fulham’s brilliance on that day was when Blackpool played a 2-2 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last December.
Blackpool played magnificently on that afternoon, but luck in getting goals was dead against them.
The opinion of Pat Beasley, Fulham’s old campaigner, is that in meeting Blackpool, Fulham are up against one of the best teams in England.
But, said Beasley, favourites - particularly in Cup ties - do “flop” sometimes.
“We have beaten First, Second and Third Division teams so far, added Beasley - he refers to Fulham’s Cup triumphs over Doncaster Rovers, Bristol Rovers and Everton - “so why should we not knock one of the favourites off their perch?
“Blackpool will have to fight hard and play well to beat the Fulham lads on their present form.”
TRAINING PLANS
Apart from their usual Wednesday visit to Brighton for brine baths, some golf, and a walk on the seafront, most of Fulham’s training will be done on their own ground.
To keep the Craven Cottage playing pitch spick and span, the Fulham players may be taken to a nice open spot at Motspur Park for a trial match on the London University ground.
The idea of this is to give Watson, centre-halfback, and Shepherd, outside-left, who have been on the injured list for several weeks, a thorough test.
I shall be surprised if Watson and Shepherd are not in the Fulham team, though Taylor s brilliant performance at centre-halfback in the replayed Cuptie against Everton may lead to Mr. Peart deciding not to disturb a defence that did not concede a goal in two hours’ hard football.
Fulham’s ground, which runs alongside the River Thames, is always in good condition-moist and not heavy.
It is situated close to Chelsea ground. On the afternoon of the Cuptie, Chelsea have a First Division match at Stamford Bridge, against Liverpool, the League champions.
That should ease the congestion at the Fulham ground, especially as Fulham’s is not an all-ticket match, and the admission charge has been fixed at Is. 6d., payable at the turnstiles. The idea of making the initial charge 2s. has been dropped.
Today the Fulham players had a fine tryout for the Cuptie. They met Birmingham City, the Second Division leaders, at Craven Cottage.
Irish star in goal
THESE are pen pictures of the Fulham players expected to be in the Cup team against Blackpool.
EDWARD HINTON, goalkeeper. - Has kept goal for Ireland in this season’s international matches. A Belfast man, who stands 6ft. and weighs almost 12st., he is very agile.
HARRY FREEMAN, right back. - Hails from Woodstock, Oxford, but actually he is one of Jack Peart’s boys as he terms them, because he was developed in the Fulham reserve team. Freeman is stocky, 5ft. 8in. and 11st., very fast, fearless, and a 90-minutes player.
Freeman has the reputation of being one of the hardest kickers of a dead ball in professional football. Takes nearly every free-kick for Fulham, but failed with a penalty-kick in the replayed Cup-tie against Everton. Played in 42 League matches for Fulham last season
JOSEPH BACUZZI, left back. - Joe Bacuzzi. a Londoner, is a great favourite at Craven Cottage. A class full-back, who for years was on the fringe of the England team.
There is nothing rash in Bacuzzi’s football. Few full-backs can measure a tackle better. His judgement is always sound, and he always remains calm under pressure. A fine head-work player and kicks a length.
Is reputed to have played one of the best games in his career against Everton in last Saturday’s Cup-tie.
5ft. 9in 11st. Because of illness, made only 18 League appearances last season.
LEONARD QUESTED, right half-back. - A native of Folkestone who has been a real discovery for Fulham. A young versatile footballer who can play well in any position Possessing splendid physique. 5ft. 10£in., list 61b., Quested prefers wing halfback.
A little fond of roaming after the ball, he is good at a burst through and a strong shot from a distance. Played in six matches last season.
JAMES TAYLOR, centre half-back. - Born at Cowley. Built on similar lines to Quested, 5ft. 11 in,, 11st. 41b. Another fine player discovered by the Fulham manager without the outlay of a big transfer fee.
Left half-back is Taylor’s usual position, but because of Watson’s injury in a Christmas Day match he has filled the centre half-back position with distinction. Was the hero of last week s Cup-tie on the
Everton ground, playing for more than half the game with a gashed head.
Taylor has grand stamina, is a strong dribbler and a good shot. Prefers to be on the wing with freedom of movement. Shoots hard from a distance. Played in all 42 League matches last season.
ALBERT BEASLEY, left half-back. - A Worcestershire man born at Stourbridge 5ft. 10in.. l0st 6lb. Made his name as an outside-left with Arsenal. Played for England against Scotland in 1939 after he had been transferred to Huddersfield Town.
Looks like ending an honourable career at Fulham, where he acts more or less as coach. Has done well as a wing half-back since Taylor had to move in the middle.
Played at inside-left in most of his 40 matches for Fulham last season. Still a grand schemer.
SIDNEY THOMAS, outside-right. - Born at Swansea. The lightest player of the Fulham team. 5ft. 6in.. 9st. 6lb. Played for Wales this season, and did well Played his best game for Fulham in last week’s replayed Cuptie.
Quick off the mark, he controls the ball cleverly, centres accurately, and did well. Played his best game for Fulham in last weeks replayed cuptie.
ROBERT THOMAS, inside-right. - A Londoner. Brother to Dave Thomas, now with Watford. Had experience with Brentford and Plymouth Argyle before joining Fulham last August. 5ft. 8in., 11st.
"Bob” will often appear indifferent in a match. Suddenly he will blossom out. dribble 30 to 40 yards, and score the surprise goal. Got the winning goal against Everton. Not related to Sid Thomas, his partner.
ARTHUR STEVENS, centre-forward. - Another Londoner who cost Fulham nothing. Small for a centre-forward, 5ft. 7in., l0st. 121b., Stevens is actually an outside-right. Has done better than any centre-forward tried. Gets goals.
Stevens is a difficult player to charge off the ball. Can shoot with both feet. Made 16 League appearances last season
HARRY AYRES, inside-left. - Born at Redcar. 5ft. llin., 11st. 101b. Only recently gained, a regular place the Fulham team. Is an artistic footballer and a good shot. Played 12 times for Fulham last season.
ERNEST SHEPHERD, outside-left - Born at Wombwell Barnsley, but earned most of his football with the Fulham junior team.
Shepherd, who has been out of the game because cf a knee injury since January 3. is regarded as Fulham’s best forward Very fast, with fine ball control, and a great shot from an angle. Is expected to be fit to plav against Blackpool.
5ft 7n lost 71b. Made 35 appearances for Fulham last season.
BLACKPOOL Football Supporters’ Club have an allocation of tickets for the Cuptie at Fulham next Saturday.
These will be on sale to members of the Supporters’ Club, who must produce their 1948 membership card or receipt at the De Luxe Holiday Tours Office, 26, Corporation - street, Blackpool, next Monday at 2-0.
I know that Blackpool will not lack support at Fulham. The tickets will not be sufficient for the Blackpool fans, but I know that the team carry the Supporters Club’s good wishes. We nope that they will be victorious.
The big dance
THE next big event will be the dance at the Tower on Wednesday, March 17 - St. Patrick’s Night. All arrangements are now in hand, and tickets will be on sale this week.
May I again remind all old members that subscriptions for 1948 are now due and should be paid immediately?
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