Newsletter #50: December 2019

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- ,3(#21)bb- b Tony Sinfield ; I know this because he outbid me on the Jack Cock Baines ‘ shield’ kkkH eBay if you are looking to nab one for yourself. The jigsaw itself was not a difficult one to complete and is now framed and hanging on my ‘den’ wall alongside many of my other items of Town memorabilia.

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Latest acquisitions dc.HpkcdH. Pride of place this issue must go to the first three cards i a set issued the clu itself tled Hud- dersfield Town Official Player Cards 2019/20 the first card - Schidler - was ol availale uig a programme for the Middlesrough match, there- aer cards were give awa free to aoe who asked at the clu shop o match das Some cards featured a silver foil effect that was ot preset o others Next to arrive at Pash Hall was the Caltex Socceroos card of Aaron Mooy issued to celebrate the upcoming 2018 World Cup in Russia. Readily available in Oz they are somewhat more difficult to acquire over here. Mine cost a mere 53p from an eBay vendor in Australia. Another item which I have had in m collecon or a ew ears now riht was nall idened aer Alan Jenkins published a post on his wonderful blog fea- turing the BBC Magazine’s ‘MOTD’ Travelling Supporters’ Guide To Britain poster from all the way back in 1998. Town appeared as number 37 and various details about the club are visible on the boxed-out secon of the map. ou will be aware that dont acvely chase the ridiculously expensive ‘parallel cards from the recent issues when Town were in the Greedy League, yes? Well couldnt resist this card of Chris Schindler from the Topps Premier Gold 2017/18 series. He featured on card number 158 but this was a green ‘parallel’ numbered 044/100 and cost me only about £3.00 - I’m not 100% sure of the price because it came from Germany on eBay and it was priced up at €3.50. Safe to say that I won’t be adding many more of this type of card unless they are very cheap indeed. And the final item to arrive this month was the large postcard pictured right which was designed to whip up a larger aendance for the midwee game against Swansea City on 26th November. One of these was sent to every season card holder the wee before the game and many will have no doubt chuced them away, but I thin that it will eventually be quite collectable. hpshudderseldtowncollecon.wordpress.com 2

Auction Watch Somemes I noce some really interesng aucon items related to Town and I bring them to your aenon here; occasionally you might be lucky enough to sll have me to bid on them. Beware, though, as there will be Buyer’s Premiums to pay on them, somemes as high as 20%! v Graham Budd Aucons . It is Town trainer and ex- United player Henry Cockburn’s medal which was awarded for Town’s nd iision Championship win of which ensured their promoon to the irst iision. ith an auconeer’s esmate of - the openin bid of ust rose to only . by the me it sold and no I didn’t bid.

Another unusual item was the Wayfarer card shown here which appeared on eBay in mid-November and i od a e arn rie o na in a a ee are ard - amo A4 in ize - are ver rare and don aear ver oen a a and b i i omee i e aer e ed o e bak M on ard doen ave i b an reared o bid or i o e a

And fina ere a bi o a heads-up or Ton ard oe- or Ti oeon o nine Cope’s ‘Clips’ Noted Footballers will come up for sale at Loddon on Ld of London on De- cember 4th. They represent a complete sub-set of the Town players and already they have a bd n on the starn prce of just £48.00 and they are lot number 202. I would expect the hammer prce to be somewhere closer to the top end of the auc- oneers esmate of £80.00 to £120.00. hpshuddersfieldtowncollecon.wordpress.com 3

Other football cards As I know that there are several subscribers to this newsleer who are neither HTAFC fans nor yddmpg md/m.’ … BOYS’MGZNE‘&Sp- m’(1923) dm():BOY-510/BPM-7.4 Most collectors of football cards will be familiar with this set of cards. Issued in sixteen blocks of four, there were 52 footballers mixed in with twelve other boxers, cricketers and athletes (who made up the last three sheets). Town did quite well with Ernie Islip and Charlie Wilson represented. Nowadays these items tend to turn up cut into individual players and blocks of four are rela- vely hard to come by. complete block is valued at £5.00 by Murray whilst FCCM will sell you one for £4.00. Singles will, of course, be available at a much cheaper price and are very easily found; even the most cursory of glances on eBay throws up many of these.

You can see all of the footballer sheets together with etails as to ates of publicaon an issue numbers at my other website 1920sHeaven .

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Recommended Read “CLOUGHIE: WALKING ON WATER: MY LIFE” by and John Sadler (2002) OK, I’ll be the first to admit that I am ridiculously late coming to this book but, boy, was it worth it! Although I never saw him play - for either Mid- dlesbrough or Sunderland - I consider myself fortunate enough to have been a supporter whilst he managed in the East Midlands. I’ve also spent many a happy hour smiling at YouTube foot- age of him pung umped-up com- mentators and interviewers in their places in his most polite and erudite manner. The book opens with a chapter ad- dressing the demon drink; this quite surprised me as I expected to work towards that but, no, Clough goes straight to it and is most forthright and honest in his self-assessment and the damage that drink did both to his career and his life in general. From there onwards Clough reminisces with anger and deep love in turn over his family life, beginning with his mother and what a hard ob she had looking aer eight kids and keeping a dy house; his football career as a player frustrated by cheang and match-fixing and then his inuries; then on to his wonderful manageri- al career and his well-documented fall-outs with interfering chairmen, directors and those in power in the football hierarchy. Peter Taylor is finally accorded equal billing in the Clough success story as he confesses his deep regret and shame at never being able to overcome his pride in order to bury the hatchet over their squabble before his partner died; such a sad admission. e also casgates himself at his lack of empathy and understanding of usn Fashanu and the way that he dealt with him in front of the other players, although he does qualify his reacons by insisng that Fashanu lied to him on many occasions in an eort to hide his life choices, even going to the point of presenng a girl as his fiancée. Clough’s late acknowledgement of his lack of understanding and empathy does him credit, but quite clearly Clough had his own standards and if you didn’t reach them you weren’t worth bothering with. Even his own son Nigel suered when he was on the books at Forest, prob- ably more so than the other players; but that’s what fathers do when they are at work - they can- not be seen to favour their ospring in any way, although it seems that Clough went way over-

.. 5 board and had to have this pointed out to him at the me by both Teddy Sheringham and before he finally relented and cut Nigel a bit of slack. Subsequent chapters oer up his thoughts on the stages of his career at various clubs as both player and manager - although his me at righton is prey much skated over - together with the one ob that he really wanted but that he didn’t get - the England ob. e expresses his fury over the choice of other candidates and the fact that the bloke who got the ob - - wasn’t even there at the interviews. e expresses great admiraon for his heroes like ilf Mannion and , and some of those players in his charge upon whom he could al- ways depend and indeed whom he took from club to club such as ohn McGovern and ohn O’are. There are amusing anecdotes about the ‘hard men’ Larry Lloyd and Kenny urns and grumpy old Scot Archie Gemmill and much self-deprecang humour as he looks back at how he reacted to various situaons. e is scathing of the eect that television has upon the game in modern mes, not only with the way that kick-o mes are “buggered about with” but also the vast amounts of cash sloshing around in the game now. e makes the point that above all it is the fans who are suering, some- thing which resounds even more so today as more and more fans’ groups are taking steps to rein in the mad rush of football trying to sell its soul to the TV companies. Clough could see it back then, twenty years ago - as did we all - but, sadly, things are no beer now. Foreign players, cheangdiving players and those who chase and harangue referees are also ‘called out’ as Clough makes the point that his players, his teams never did this and he was oen complimented by referees who told him how easy it was to officiate games involving his teams. Several notable people do not emerge from the book parcularly well and I would guess that when it was published Carl Tiler, Peter Taylor (of England, Crystal Palace and Gillingham manage- ment), , Glenn oddle (the England manager, not the player), and avid Pla and ust about any and every television football ‘pundit’ would not have been too pleased with their ‘credits’. It’s a fascinang read; Clough is honest about his approach, style and thoughts but he definitely comes across as bier and unsympathec to anyone outside his immediate family. e was un- doubtedly a great player - as he connually reminds the reader! - and a spectacularly successful manager unl his final season at Forest, and it’s a pity that he died so young in at the age of ust 6, only a couple of years aer the book was published. To close, I will leave the final comments to the man himself… “When I’m gone I want to be remembered as somebody who contributed good things to the Eng- lish game - not least the winning of trophies with teams that played football with good manners, according to the rules imposed by the referees, and with style and a bit of a swagger. Let them remember me as a big-headed so-and-so, a conceited bugger who believed he was always right and somemes said things that he shouldn’t. ut don’t remember loughie for any of the nega- ves of life - apart from having one drin too many too oen.” on’t worry, Cloughie - your legacy is safe with us.

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A highlight from YOUR collection… In what will probably only ever be an occasional series, I am now offering YOU the chance to tell us about your very own highlight ollowing on rom the previous arcles comes the net part o Mike McIntyres lengthy arcle about Burnley players o the World Cups Here is Part 2 beginning with Chile, 1962

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MIRA (ITALY) - Mondiali di Calcio 1962: No. un Connelly / No. un Pointer and album and packet

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