Memory Lane – St Annes Traders’ FC.
 | In the latest of our popular 'Memory Lane ' articles we take a look at St Annes Trader's FC who played in the BFSFA througout the early and mid Seventies when they had a successful spell. Some great haircuts and fashion to bring back memories of the era thirty-five years ago. If you've any old Sunday football scrapbooks lying in the attic collecting dust and you'd like to get them 'digitalised' and seen throughout the world at the click of a mouse completely for free then contact us at sportspy22@aol.com |
Annual subs to join the club only a
Memory Lane – The Seed Collection (Part 2)
 | Peter Seed, manager of one of the greatest Sunday league sides ever, Oceans XI, gives fyldesport.com unique access to his collection of photographs and press cuttings. In the second and final part we take a look at the Sunday football scene from the late sixties to the early seventies. Pictures, newspaper articles and programmes. |
We'd like to thank Peter Seed for giving us access to his collection of pictures and photographs.
Peter Seed
See below for the names of the players.
A young Brian Croft (Current Quilligan's liner) pictured backrow right. Current referee Mike Mahoney pictured front right.
The frst ever Sunday league final at Bloomfield Road.
Hard to read but the best I could do. Great picture of Pete Collins.
A celebrity line up on the left with Tom Nolan (Brother of the Nolans) and our very own registration secretary Dennis Peters in goal. Dennis tells me that despite a heroic display of net keeping his side went on to narrowly lose 4-0. Dennis was slightly more agile in those days.
A regular event in the late seventies/early 1980's and still going today. Current referee Mike Mahoney below showing his drinking prowess.
Mike 'Crazy Barney' Mahoney.
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Memory Lane – The Seed Collection (Part 1)
| Peter Seed, manager of one of the greatest Sunday league sides ever, Oceans XI, gives fyldesport.com unique access to his collection of photographs and press cuttings. In part one we take a look at the Sunday football scene from its early origins in 1961 up until the 1966/67 season. |
We'd like to thank Peter Seed for giving us access to his collection of pictures and photographs and for putting us right on the history of Sunday football on the Fylde Coast.
Peter Seed.
The early history of Fylde Sunday Football.
South Shore Rangers in 1962 many of whom became regulars in Sunday Football.
Picking up an early trophy, Ronnie Byrom (Father of Craig – New Castle FC) backrow centre.
Some of the first ever results in the 1964/65 Season. Kelly's ramblers run by Graham Kelly who'd go on to play a major role with the Football League.
Oceans XI (1964/65) From left – C Ward, D Dabrowski, P Seed, F Gleave, P Dabrowski, R Peate, L Barrow, T Williams, P Riley, H Warburton and A Dobson.
Early league table.
Early comment.
Never easy to get hold of even to this day, the referees marks from the 1965/66 Season.
Match report.
Red Star FC (1966) prior to a match against Oceans X1 at Blackpool Road St Annes. From the left : R Walker, M Brook, D Drinkwater, T Wright, A Grundy, D Turnbull, D Lindsay (Captain), J Brown, P Riley, T Bullen and S Bellamy.
Oceans X1 – From left : D Roach, L Barrow, R Boardman, G Marshall, R Byrom, T Williams (Captain), D Barrow, P Roach, J Sutton, F Gleave and D miller.
Referee and Sunday league secretary Mr K Ashton shakes hands with the respective captains Don Lindsay (Red Star – left) and Tom Williams.
Action from the game that Red Star won 3-1.
Programme for the 1966/67 Divisional finals at Blackpool Rangers ground on Fleetwood Road, Bispham.
Lewis's FC v Nook Rovers FC
Dudley Hill v Oceans X1
Results and reports on the two finals.
Late tables 1966/67.
Part 2 (1967/68 – 1971/72) to follow soon.
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Memory Lane 1972/73 Season (Part 3)
 | The third and final part of the 1972/73 Season. Match reports, final previews and photo's of the Gledhill finalists. |
Match reports plus a request for any teams wishing to play on Christmas Eve.
Club profiles on Kirkham & Wesham, Stanley Cons and ICI
Gledhill Quarter-Finals results and reports.
Burn Naze out of the Lancashire Sunday Trophy due to a bad pitch.
Late season tables
Eagle through to the Gledhill semi-final
Cleveleys Park prepare for a Lancashire Trophy quarter final
Gledhill Semi Finals announced
Sands against Eagle in the Melling Final
Match reports on the Melling semi finals
St Annes Traders FC win Division 2
Les Knight (Long time Prebond groundsman) makes his feelings clear on the over-use of pitches.
Football League secretary Alan Hardaker shakes hands with the players before the Gledhill Final at Bloomfield Road.
Red Star and Furlong Motors Gledhill squads. BFSFA Referee Mike 'Barney' Mahoney in the Red Star picture.
Red Star win the 1972/73 Gledhill Cup.
Red Star also going very well in the league.
Queens Cup and Melling Shield Finals announced.
Gledhill Reserves win promotion plus Cup Final results.
Cup Final Reports.
The Division 1 title hangs in the balance.
The last of the season's Cup Finals.
Red Star make it a famous double. Other Divisional titles are decided.
The end of an era as Oceans XI quit the league.
Dave Taylor pays tribute to a great side.
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Memory Lane – 1972/73 Season (Part 2)
 | Instalment number four sees part two of the 1972/73 season. Match reports, tables, rep squads and letters to the paper. |
Thanks once again to Dave Taylor, long standing committee member and local referee of over fifty years for giving bfsfa.com/fyldesport access to his collection of press cuttings.
Lancashire Sunday Trophy and Queens Cup draws plus Great Eccleston beat Bispham North End.
The last of the first round Gledhill ties take place as well as a few replays.
A big win for the Dinmore and a club profle for North bank FC
Peter Collins, the league registration secretary at the time, makes his feelings on the 'ridiculously' high fines handed down by the LFA perfectly clear to the Evening Gazette.
Mr Collins was supported by this poor player who had been hit by one of these 'savage' fines.
Second round Gledhill results.
Round 2 write up. Fylde Rangers held by the Co-op Sports Club.
More tables.
Sands FC end Oceans 18 month run of unbeaten league games. How would they react to defeat ? Nicky Nixon scores four for Christ the King.
Round 2 Gledhill replays
The third round draw.
Club profile for the Oxford and the Rep Squads for Under Eighteens and Open Age are announced.
The Under 18's are unlucky against a Manchester Under 21's side but the open age squad win 2-0.
New job for Frank Olsson at Wren Rovers.
Lytham St Annes Catholic Club FC
Tony Harrison of Blackpool Mechanics looks to sign for southport. Tony's brother Steve Harrison was the Blackpool FC full back. He later went on to assist Graham Taylor at Aston Villa and England.
Melling Shield (1st Division Cup) and Howcroft Cup draws.
A great win over the leaders for Red Star.
Third round Gledhill results. Preesall Colts inconsistent.
Profile on Blackpool Supporters Club FC
Leading goalscorers.
Next week sees the third and final part of the 1972/73 season including final tables and reports on the major Cup finals.Sportspy 2005/06
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Memory Lane – 1972/73 Season (Part 1)
 | In our third instalment of the series we go back thirty-three years to the 1972/73 Season. There was lot's of interesting stuff going on back then so we've split this into three parts. |
Thanks once again to Dave Taylor, long standing committee member and referee of over fifty years for giving bfsfa.com/fyldesport full access to his collection of press cuttings.
An introductory piece for the new season explaining name changes and welcoming the new teams including Kirkham and Wesham and Burtons. Cleveleys Spectrons and manager/secretary Nigel Hough move home to the Dunes where they're still based today.
A profile of the Dunes FC from that season.
Shocked and surprised at Sands having a lady secretary, Yes ! A lady – Miss Stephens previously with the Boars Head. Brian Croft still recovering from his broken leg.
It gets worse. You couldn't get away with this kind of stuff these days. The 'loveley ladies' moving away from the touchline and setting up what is probably today's Poulton & District Junior Football league.
Mid season transfers, weddings and a reminder for those few teams with nets to get them up on time.
The new disciplinary code based on a points basis. This must have been very difficult to administer and it's little wonder that it didn't last very long. 'Gesticultating in front of a player taking a free kick ?!
The new committee.
Early mid season player poaching but it worked as can be seen from the mid season transfers shown higher up. Chris Giles surprisingly not involved.
Can last season's top goal scorer be beaten ? Profile on the Queensway FC.
The league shop begins to operate. I bet the T Shirts were not as good as ours.
First week's match reports.
St Annes Traders lose for the first time in eighteen months.
Maybe they would have been cheered up by the Inter Divisional swimming gala. Anybody up for it ?
Profile on Gledhills. If it's the same John Streetley he went on to play for Mechanics and was still seen refereeing in the Alliance last season.
Round 1 Gledhill results.
Alan Cocker (Current Poulton manager) scores an extra time Round 1 Gledhill winner)
Profile on Strand FC new to the league.
Early tables showing the five Divisions.
The new
Memory Lane – 1971/72 Season
 | In the second of our series we go back to the final few weeks of the 1971/72 season as the campaign draws towards its conclusion. Local team Oceans X1 reach the final of the first ever Lancashire Sunday Trophy. Next week we concentrate on 1972/73 (Part 1) as young Alan Cocker (Current Poulton manager) scores for Preesall Colts and the new changing block at Moor Park gets vandalised for the very first time. |
Thanks again to Dave Taylor, long serving committee member and referee of over fifty years, for giving Fyldesport.com access to his scrapbook of press cuttings. If you've anything to add or wish to amend or clarify please contact me at ; sportspy@fyldesport.com
Queensway FC of Division 5. Not the ideal time to be a Fylde barber.
Late season league tables with Cheswick & Wrights already crowned Division 3 Champions.
Oceans X1 reach the Lancashire Cup semi final.
The match programme. 15p admission fee.
The respective teams and officials. Oceans X1 – Mick Farrer (Father owned Farrers Garage) John Scarlett (Home Heat Gas). No co-incidence you still see those businesses being prominantly advertised side by side at the ground of Squires Gate FC to this day.
1-1 after extra time.
A good win at Morecambe in the replay.
But lost in the final despite a good display from Dave Roach in goals. Nelson Nomads winning the inaugral Lancashire Sunday Trophy. To see an article relating to the final from a Manchester website click here.
Burn Naze, the first Fleetwood team to join Sunday football fall out with each other during the game and contradict almost every decision by the ref.
New land at Commonedge, dancing at the No 1 Club.
Another weekly round up, Steve Hesford has a great game in goal for the Golden Eagle.
In those great days before the scourge of the mobile phone the league worries about the lack of phones for emergency purposes around the Sunday league grounds.
But Jackie Burke quickly comes up with a solution.
Oceans X1 reach the Melling Final (The more important competition of the day) as well as other match reports. (“Cougar Cornwall” the leagues leading marksman for Stanley Cons.)Oceans X1 played Sands in the final at Bloomfield Road in a great game that finished 3-1 to Sands FC in front of a crowd of 700. Sands stopping Oceans X1 winning a famous treble. Almost certainly the first Sunday league final ever to be played at the famous venue.
Upcoming finals, notification of presentation night and a comedian (Wandering Walter) appearing at the Secretaries' meeting.
Gledhill Celtic make the Gledhill Final.
The finals are advertised at Hampton Road Railway Club with the added attraction of the bar being open all day – a rarity in those days.
League Rep Squad and Oceans X1 Gledhill team.
Oceans X1 make up for the Lancs Cup loss with a Gledhill win and Duffy scores two for Whittle Victoria to win the Howcroft Cup Final.
Not easy to read but Blackpool Mechanics FC blame Sunday football for a dramatic late season drop in form. “Sunday Cup finals not worth tuppence” was the quote along with “If we had a team in the Division 1 Sunday league we'd win every match 25-0”.
Dave Taylor replies fighting the Sunday leagues' corner.
St Annes Traders FC Club profile plus Rep team squad.
Skipper Mike Farrer guides Oceans X1 to a late season pressure win against Newton Heath. Elsewhere current league Press Secretary Nicky Nixon starred for a much improved Christ the King.
Final Tables for the 1971/72 season. Oceans X1 cap a memorable season. Hudson Villa finish bottom of Division 5.
Promotion round up for the season.
Blackpool player Peter Suddaby does the honours at the St Annes Traders FC presentation evening.
Famous celebrities, famous footballers (What a line-up), Sunday league Ref's and Sunday league managers all turn out for charity at the Stanley Park Oval.
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