Newsletter #32: 1 st July 2018
Another highlight from my collection CONTENTS
ALI WHITE HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FC CANVAS Page 1: - A W TF a vas Page 2: a s A s s - T rr - r m y- Ts s - r S ‘PRIZM’ ard 2004 FD Ed amp ‘d ’ ard a d a - r M y p s r Page 3: A Wa - ’s a Page 3: I W s T a I Ow d T s… - ‘ yr ’ Pa ‘PRIZM’ ard f M y Page 4: Other Football Cards - Pluck ‘Famous Football Teams’ (1922) Page 5: Recommended Read - ‘The Damned United’ by David Peace I clearly recall walking past the AC Gallery in Huddersfield with a (2006) riend se eral years ag and n cing this can as - am ng thers - in the r nt wind w y c mment at the me was rather al ng Page 6: For Sale - new items… and the lines “yes, it’s lovely, but she’d never let me hang it any- my book! where”. Well, a few short years on, I had taken the plunge and bought it online (there’s a link on my website) without even informing my wife; I even got lucky because they had quoted me an out-of-date shipping cost of just £5 which they duly honoured. The canvas itself is about 30” x 26” and it now hangs proudly on my staircase - one can admire it directly ahead whilst walk- ing down the stairs.
The view is a composite one. For those who are unfamiliar with the layout of our ground, you can effec- vely draw a hori ontal line across the top of the three stands shown bordering the pitch; the huge stand shown at the far end is purely an enormous enlargement of the stand shown directly below it and the trusses and blue rooves adjacent are merely alterna ve views of the stands at the side of the ground. ll in all it is a very ‘ busy’ print and is a magnificent sight. nd because it is a print composed of photographic elements you might even be able to recognise certain people within it. I know for a fact that the drummer at bo om le has been iden fied by his father who subsequently bought one of these as a gi for him.
nd the cost? I think that I paid around the £120 that is being asked now. Well worth it!
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Latest acquisitions . d ’ k ’ v ug c v . F u c c ‘T ’ -b x c g B ; v d d u £22 bu d ff d g ju £20 u c g d b c u d c d c c d FORTY pounds a couple of weeks later.
Next is the foreign ‘double’ card here of Ray Wilson and Contreras of Chile. I already have a couple of singles of this card but was pleased to get this rare example at the more than reasonable price of £20.00.
I have a small collec on of First Day Covers too and had thought that I already own all of the ones featuring Town but it would seem that I didn’t; this one from the 2004 Play- Offs came up on eBay and I snatched it for just £1.49 - bar- gain!
aron ooy con nues to appear on s c ers due to his orld up appearance for ustralia and this one bi arre art’ s c er from s e i of Swit erland once again came from e ay and this me ery cheaply indeed - only £1.00 and 75p postage from Germany!
Finally, just two days before the orld up commenced, Town announced that upon its conclusion they would be signing Ramadan Sobhi from Sto e ity so the chase was on to find cards of him. This Panini PRIZ ’ card is from the same series as the many ooy cards and is a limited edi on lue’ num- bered 0 199. I’m going to be a long me collec ng these, I thin ...
MAGAZINE POS ERS/AR ICLES You would be forgi en for thin ing that the sum- mer closed season would ha e yielded no more Town posters, but this one of aron ooy surfaced in mid-June. It’s clearly not a Town-specific one but I will add it to my collec on anyway in just the same way as I am collec ng the cards of ooy, J rgensen, ssl and now, Sobhi.
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Auction Watch Beware, though, as there will be Buyer’s Premiums to pay on them, somemes as high as 20%! ‘ Terrier’ y b x £42 eBay , but that’s about it. If, however, you fancy a bit of a gamble, there is an item on eBay which might ust c le your fancy hown right is a it bag complete with boots, training ‘spi es’ and Topical Times card of ex- own player en u . e le own mov- ing to lac burn and later Yor , Mans- eld and la erly Mossley where he was a player-manager. Originally priced at , the collec on can now be yours for ust . . he auc on runs un l the th uly and is auc on . Please let me now if you buy these.
I wish that I owned this There are many collectables out there that I know feature Town or individual players, as well as many football items in general. As part of an on-going series, I present for you here one of the items that I would love to add to my collec on. 2018 PANINI ‘PRIZM’ FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA, ‘Cyrillic’ parallel card
v v . P - - - ‘ parallel’ v . T ‘ base’ 3 v - - ‘parallel’ , v ff v . T pr s a , . v v , v . T , ‘Cyr ll ’ , - R , fi eBay on June 21st for £51.00! As far as I am aware, the text on the re- verse is standard English, but I can’t be sure and I doubt that I’ll ever find out.
his card is obviousl s m toma c of the wa that card col- lec ng is going and it loo s as though it’s going to become even more ex ensive in the future.
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Other football cards As I know that there are several subscribers to this newsleer who are neither HTAFC fans nor y d d m p g m d/ m . ’ ... “PLU K” ’ m m ’ (1922) Now here’s a lovely set of cards that isn’t too difficult to collect; twenty-seven in all with co sh variants if you want them. I got lucky - I managed to pick up eleven of them for just £5.00. Individually these cards are catalogued at £ .00 ut can e had for as li le as £2.50) so that was quite a ar- gain. The pro lem for me now is to pick up the missing sixteen cards at reasona le Yorkshireman!) prices. Each card shows a photographic team line-up on the front and the reverse features the names of the players together with the card num er and details of which card to expect next week. There are some great teams included here ut it is a sad indica on of just how far some teams have fallen in the intervening period; Bury Crewe Alexandra Lincoln City and ldham Athle c for example are now plying their trade in the o om division of the English League system whilst Clapton rient now Leyton rient) and Darlington have fallen even further. Bury F.C. you may e aware were even Cup win- ners in 1900 and 1903 - yes that’s more than the majority of current Premier League teams! There were two issues of this set one in England and Wales and a slightly different one in cotland. Re- placement cards were issued in cotland with the acks of the preceding cards altered accordingly. For the record here are the teams in the English issue together with their co sh counterparts The Arsenal; Cardiff City; To enham otspur; Burnley; Aston illa; lasgow Rangers; West Bromwich Al ion; Black- urn Rovers; Chelsea i ernian); toke; Barnsley; Manchester United Falkirk); Crewe Alexandra; ld- ham Athle c; Manchester City Cel c); Lincoln City; Darlington; Everton Raith Rovers); ull City; wansea Town; Middles rough A erdeen); underland; Leicester City; Bury Al ion Rovers); Walsall; uddersfield Town; Clapton rient Third Lanark).
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Recommended read
‘THE DAMNED UNITED’ by David Peace (2006) If you are offended y industrial language then there is no point in you reading this review any further. Wri en y Town fan David Peace this is the novel that infuriated the families of Clough and various players as well as fans of oth Leeds united and Der y County. Just how much of it is ased in fact is open to de ate and there was certainly plenty of that upon the ook’s pu lica on. Bri- an Clough comes over as a crude over earing arrogant flat-track ully o sessed y his jealousy of Don Revie and a man who turned on all those around him including his est friend and partner Peter Taylor and the many players that he encountered. But he more than met his match in some of the directors that he had to work with most nota ly am Longson and Jack Kirkland at Der y and Leeds respec vely; here were two men who not go- ing to e pushed around for too long and oth eventual- ly saw him off. If of course this is all to e elieved… There are actually two stories running concurrently in here; in italics and usually at the eginning of each ‘Day’ or chapter is the tale of Clough’s career-ending knee in- jury whilst playing for underland leading to his first managerial post at artlepool then the meteoric rise at Der y under Longson followed y the rief reign at Brighton where the Clough Taylor magic failed to spark. This preliminary tale ends on the last few pages with his ge ng the jo at Leeds United in the summer of 197 coinciding with the end of the major thread of the ook which chronicles his career at Elland Road. As a Town fan I was already aware that the very last game that Leeds United played under Clough was the League Cup match at Leeds Road which Lorimer rescued for Leeds with a last-minute equaliser ut I was unaware that the very first game was also away at Town for a pre-season friendly which Leeds duly won. o Town ookended his -day career at Leeds United - that’s unusual. Another revela on for his family at least is the amount of drinking and par cularly smoking that seemed to go on; his family maintained that he NE ER smoked ut I have also read elsewhere that he acknowledged in a iography that he smoked and drank far too much. As this seemed to take place mainly in posh hotel rooms oardrooms and offices it is quite possi le that his family were unaware of it. All of the famous exchanges take place here - the smashing up of Don Revie’s old desk with an axe the era ng of the Leeds players who won all of their medals y chea ng and the famous resigna on stunt at Der y which ack-fired so spectacularly. As the author takes pains to explain the details are not necessarily 100% accurate ut real or no the whole makes for an engrossing and easy read. ut of interest having re-read the ook I then sat to watch the film which had also een a ig success. Comparing the two many events were trimmed as you would expect ut the film seems to suggest that Clough never actually went to Brighton leaving Taylor to take up the reins there alone which is incorrect. The film director also played fast and loose with some of the fixtures that are depicted most nota ly the games etween Leeds and Der y in terms of when they happened and who scored in which game. The game shown to e immediately prior to a European Cup game against Juventus was in fact efore a different European game. And the very last League game for Leeds under Clough was a 1-1 home draw against Luton ut the film shows it as a 0-1 defeat. But that’s the film… if you’ve never read it the ook is well worth picking up especially since it’s only 1p at Amazon! h ps huddersfieldtowncollec on.wordpress.com 5
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