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[Hempstead Gaz]

Timmy Souter.

WHOEVER heard of a footballer called Timmy?

[Bernard]

Louis Phillips

Adolph Amoko

Onome Sodje

[Wobbly Wayne rides again]

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WHOEVER heard of a footballer called Timmy?

 

Timmy O'shea ex Farnboro and Welling ( assistant manager to Paul Parker )

 

Do I win a prize ?

[Harry J Allstars]

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Alan W (GNFC) said:
One for Harry - a certain Tommy Baldwin ! (And he was bl**dy useless!)

When did he play for the Fleet? I have my Chelsea who's who which list's every player to play for the club up until 1988. He scored 74 goals in 182 appearances for Chelsea.

The Fleet are listed but it doesn't say whether it was before or after he turned out for Chelsea.

I also have the Rothmans Football League players Records the Complete A-Z from 1946-1981 but it doesn't give much info about his career with us.

I also found info on our very first manager Andy Wilson (don't bother trying to ring him up FB, he died 32 years ago). I have his cigerette card which you may have seen on Whitebucket before it got redesigned.

The reason he is of a perticular interest to me is because he also played for Chelsea, in 1923. They signed him for 6,500 from Middlesbrough. At the time I think this was a record and he is a perticular favourite among many Chelsea historians for his loyalty towards the shirt.

I have a book on Chelsea (no bigger than a programme) of about 40 pages and Wilson gets his own chapter. It was published just after the war so Chelsea hereos were few and far between but from what I can make out of him he was the legend of his day. Not like the tossers that "honour" the shirt (don't forget to kiss the badge Frank) now days of course.

Captaining his country (Scotland) he scored 31 goals in one season for Middlesbrough which was a best for any player that season. Quite the superstar of his day then, although it's hard to say becuase in those days if you didn't like football you wouldn't be able to pick any footballer out of a one man line up; now days if you don't like football you could pick David Beckham out of a wheres Wally photo.

Wilson scored 62 goals in 253 appearences. He also shared his birthday with Charlie Mac despite being dead eight years before Charles was born.

If your thinking of puting an article together FB I have decent photos of both of them.

[WhiteBucket]

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Harry J Allstars said:
When did he play for the Fleet? I have my Chelsea who's who which list's every player to play for the club up until 1988. He scored 74 goals in 182 appearances for Chelsea.

He did rather less for the Fleet - seven games, no goals in 1976-77. For those that haven't seen it, there's 120+ ex-Fleet players here: http://www.whitebucket.net/archive/

Click on PLAYERS ARCHIVE.

[Alan W (GNFC)]

I also recall another ex Chelsea player, Ian Hutchinson (who sadly died in 2002) playing against us on the hallowed Stonebridge Road turf for the enemy, Dartford that same season (I think)

[Fleetbabe]

Thanks for these guys, I didn't expect such a great response. I'll draw up a list of names, and then go from there.

As for the idea of getting old players to return, we'll be looking into that one to see how easy it would actually be to do this.

[Hempstead Gaz]

With the apparent ease with which Messrs Sitford and Portway were enticed back, I reckon a lot of old timers would feel greatly honoured to be remembered by the Fleet, and give a little wave in front of us faithful fans.

[Jimmy]

Shearer didn't fit into Fordy's more professional part time way of doing things.

[Jeff]

Might have got the surname wrong but there is also Peter Coffill (?)

Hard little centre mid with a beard.

Jason Eede as well.

[Hempstead Gaz]

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Jeff said:
Might have got the surname wrong but there is also Peter Coffill (?)
Hard little centre mid with a beard.
Jason Eede as well.

Remember Jason scoring 2 to beat Gills at Priestfield in the KSC. And they played their first team.

[Jimmy]

Coffill was some sort of player coach/asst manager too.

 

Decent player.

 

Jason Eede went somewhere else, came back with them and got sent off.

[Ray ellingham]

Coffill I think was assistant to Gary Aldous

[Fleetbabe]

Keep 'em coming. I think we might have to have this as a regular feature/permenant page in the programme for next season as well.

[Ronnie]

Don't think anyones mentioned a guy I went to Junior School with.....Brian Gregory

[David Holden]

Just save time, could someone scan the appearance pages from the Jubilee handbook and post it, there we will ensure that we don't miss anyone.

[jc]

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Ray ellingham said:
Pip Jeffrey

Now works for British Gas.

EDIT: As posted by Graham S elsewhere, I've just noticed - he's serviced our boiler too.

[Hirsty]

Going off at a slight tangent, Charlie Mitten deserves a mention in dispatches, if only for letting me put my beers on his room tab after the bar shut at the Manor bash a couple of years ago ! Class !

 

Cheers,

 

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[Alan W (GNFC)]

Talking of Tostao, I see hes still having problems returning to England !!

 

Meanwhile, Darts’ 2004/05 player of the year, Tostao Kwashi, finally arrived home in Zimbabwe after his coaching/playing exploits in Vietnam during the summer. But when he turned up at the airport to check in for his flight to England, to rejoin Darts, he had his ticket confiscated (the price was refunded) by immigration officials. It appears his Visa allows him entry to England for his graduation, which takes place in January.

 

This set back means the popular player will spend Christmas under the African sun. The saga of Kwashi’s return is set to continue running.

 

(From Non League Daily) - It could only happen to Tostao!

[Nols1974]

He's gone back to Vietnam now apparently !