Southend could be no more after 4.30pm tonight!

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Oh Dear. How sad to the read the belittling of another team who rose from the old Third Division South.

Of course the Shrimpers never reached the heights of the European stage but lest ye forget the remember Errol Crossan..

They too had their legends, Eddie Fimani, Harry Threadgold, Lou Costello and possibly the greatest full back pairing outside

of the First Division in Williamson and Anderson. But above all else who (that is all who purports to be a true football man)

can forget or dismiss the mighty Sam McCrory and that goal that beat England..

As Prittlewell man said at the time That Was The Goal Of The Century.

 

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Blimey that''s going back a bit.  Dear old Harry Threadgold, signed from Sunderland, gave them ten years of wonderful service in goal.  Only in recent years did Sansome overtake his record appearances as a Southend keeper and then not by many.

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One of the few players to wear a hearing aid I believe. Had a little trouble with those early floodlights too.

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[quote user="royhollis4"]One of the few players to wear a hearing aid I believe. Had a little trouble with those early floodlights too.[/quote]

 

Yes, deaf as a post.  Didn''t know about the floodlights but it was actually quite easy in the "old days" to lose the ball in them.  Great loyal servant however and at that level in those days a decent keeper who had a good kick on him.  Brave chap, never shirked a one on one.  A Sarfend legend for the older folk.

You''ll be going back to the orange ball for ice and snow next.[;)]

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Not the prettiest boy on the block either, but a damn site more attractive that the Basildon bruiser Ray Smith.

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Yes Harry Threadgold, Roy Hollis, Peter Corthine, Lou Costello, And young Bobby Kellard was only about 15 or 16 when he became a regular just before our family moved up to Southtown, Yarmouth in 1962, were some of my heroes back then.

Blimey Roy, you must be getting on a bit now. lol.

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[quote user="royhollis4"]Not the prettiest boy on the block either, but a damn site more attractive that the Basildon bruiser Ray Smith.[/quote]

 

I prefer to say chiselled features.

Lived with a lady who wasn''t his wife (shocking then) at Canewdon.  I was on the Southend Standard at the time.

Vividly remember a game Colchester v Southend where we hammered them and Threadgold had "one of those games" and we could not get past him.  With a couple of minutes to go they scored.

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PS his son John was the kitman for the Mighty U''s about ten years ago.  We had some wonderful chats about his Dad.[:)]

Even if it was Sarfend.[;)]

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During your years as a Southend journo did you come across a John Allan (aka John Howard) or a Dave Causton by any chance?

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During your years as a Southend journo did you come across a John Allan (aka John Howard) or a Dave Causton by any chance?

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John Howard rings a bell, yes.  The Standard at that time was dominated by various factions of the Flatley dynasty - paper privately owned by the Burrows family.  Aside from the (then) Stratford Express it was the biggest selling weekly in Britain.  Had happy times there before moving national.  Was on £19 a week at the age of 20 - that was very good money in those days for a weekly.