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Happy Birthday SAFC - 125 Years Old - October 2004
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IIRC Monty was in the provisional squad to go to the Mexico WC in 1970. However he was dumped in the final analysis for Bonetti...the rest as they say is history....or Leon...... :|
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Sunderland v Oxford United
SAFC: Sorensen, Williams, Melville, Butler, Gray, Summerbee, Mullin, Ball, Johnston, Dichio, Bridges Subs: Rae, Makin, Quinn
Oxford Utd: Whitehead, Robinson, Marsh, Gray, Whelan, Gilchrist, Powell, Smith, Thomson, Windass, Beauchamp Subs: Hill, Wilsterman, Cook
Ref: T Leake, Score: 7-0, Att: 34,567
With Kevin Phillips out injured after the midweek defeat of Chester City this game belonged to Michael Bridges. His 3rd minute goal set us on the way to an astonishing victory, and he played a massive part in a convincing Sunderland display all afternoon. When Michael Gray doubled that on 6 it was evident that this was to be The Lads day, and so it proved, majestically.
For O’s midfielder Martin Gray it was an emotional return to his native Wearside, but his titanic struggle in the middle of the park was made doubly difficult with the arrival as substitute of Alex Rae for his first league game of the season.
At half time we led 2 v 0. What lay ahead was spectacular.
Rae made it 3 10 minutes after the break, then Bridges decided to get in on the act once more, making it 4 just 5 minutes later. By now Oxford were visibly demoralised, Sunderland rampant, with an audacious chip by Johnston, just wide, and offside goals aplenty, our superiority was underlined.
Inevitably the 5th and 6th arrived, courtesy of ex Sampdoria man Dichio. With the Mexican wave now careering around the stadium, Quinn made his entrance, assisting Rae to his second and Sunderland’s 7th.
This scoreline had been coming all season and for Oxford it was unfortunate that it was they who succumbed to a club record defeat. Shattered by what had transpired their Manager couldn’t face the after match press conference and left it to his assistant to recount the tale. Reid as usual was magnanimous in victory.
SAFC: Sorensen, Williams, Melville, Butler, Gray, Summerbee, Mullin, Ball, Johnston, Dichio, Bridges Subs: Rae, Makin, Quinn
Oxford Utd: Whitehead, Robinson, Marsh, Gray, Whelan, Gilchrist, Powell, Smith, Thomson, Windass, Beauchamp Subs: Hill, Wilsterman, Cook
Ref: T Leake, Score: 7-0, Att: 34,567
With Kevin Phillips out injured after the midweek defeat of Chester City this game belonged to Michael Bridges. His 3rd minute goal set us on the way to an astonishing victory, and he played a massive part in a convincing Sunderland display all afternoon. When Michael Gray doubled that on 6 it was evident that this was to be The Lads day, and so it proved, majestically.
For O’s midfielder Martin Gray it was an emotional return to his native Wearside, but his titanic struggle in the middle of the park was made doubly difficult with the arrival as substitute of Alex Rae for his first league game of the season.
At half time we led 2 v 0. What lay ahead was spectacular.
Rae made it 3 10 minutes after the break, then Bridges decided to get in on the act once more, making it 4 just 5 minutes later. By now Oxford were visibly demoralised, Sunderland rampant, with an audacious chip by Johnston, just wide, and offside goals aplenty, our superiority was underlined.
Inevitably the 5th and 6th arrived, courtesy of ex Sampdoria man Dichio. With the Mexican wave now careering around the stadium, Quinn made his entrance, assisting Rae to his second and Sunderland’s 7th.
This scoreline had been coming all season and for Oxford it was unfortunate that it was they who succumbed to a club record defeat. Shattered by what had transpired their Manager couldn’t face the after match press conference and left it to his assistant to recount the tale. Reid as usual was magnanimous in victory.
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My Boy Harry said:
Thanks for the pic MBH, already printed out on the wall of my office at home, along with Stuart Clarkes picture of the SoL before kickoff at the Man City game (opening league game) and the TWR centre spread of SKP & Alex Rare at the end of the first 2-1.
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For all their great traditions in the League, Sunderland had never yet lifted the Cup. With Preston well in command early on in the 1937 Final, it seemed that once again 'the pot' as going to elude them.
Just before half‑time, F. O'Donnell, veering into the inside‑right position, collected the pass from the left that he had cleverly anticipated, and drove home a magnificent shot giving Mapson in the Sunderland goal no chance. Preston were a goal ahead, and only two sides had ever lost at Wembley in a Final after being in front.
But Sunderland were transformed in the second half. The wing‑halves, Thomson and McNab, began to push forward and lend their weight to the attack, and the forwards, under the astute generalship of their England inside‑right Horatio Carter, at last found their confidence. Within six minutes Gurney had wiped out Preston's lead. Twenty minutes from time Carter put Sunderland ahead, and, near the end, Burbanks shot home brilliantly from a difficult angle to make it 3‑1.
Raich Carter Scores For Sunderland
'Raich' Carter, a master technician and great inside‑forward, had stamped his personality on the game. Sunderland‑born, he led a Sunderland side, League champions the year before, to their moment of triumph.
Raich Carter Receives the Cup From The Queen
Just before half‑time, F. O'Donnell, veering into the inside‑right position, collected the pass from the left that he had cleverly anticipated, and drove home a magnificent shot giving Mapson in the Sunderland goal no chance. Preston were a goal ahead, and only two sides had ever lost at Wembley in a Final after being in front.
But Sunderland were transformed in the second half. The wing‑halves, Thomson and McNab, began to push forward and lend their weight to the attack, and the forwards, under the astute generalship of their England inside‑right Horatio Carter, at last found their confidence. Within six minutes Gurney had wiped out Preston's lead. Twenty minutes from time Carter put Sunderland ahead, and, near the end, Burbanks shot home brilliantly from a difficult angle to make it 3‑1.
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Raich Carter Scores For Sunderland
'Raich' Carter, a master technician and great inside‑forward, had stamped his personality on the game. Sunderland‑born, he led a Sunderland side, League champions the year before, to their moment of triumph.
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Raich Carter Receives the Cup From The Queen
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Sunderland 1 Leeds United 0
Sunderland
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Montgomerie, Malone, Guthrie, Horswill, Watson, Pitt, Kerr, Hughes, Halom, Porterfield, Tueart
Leeds United
Harvery, Reaney, Cherry, Bremner Madeley, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles, Gray E
Referee: K Burns
Attendance: 100,000
MATCH REPORT
Leeds United, a team boasting ten internationals, and experienced in the conflicts of First Division and European competition, came to Wembley in 1973 as Cup‑holders for their third Final in four years. Sunderland came from the Second Division, and when their new manager Bob Stokoe took over during the season, they were third from bottom. No Second Division side had won the Cup for more than forty years, and very few people outside Sunderland gave them any chance of winning.
Leeds had their chances, and might have been ahead before Porter‑field scored the goal that won the Cup for Sunderland, on the half‑hour from H Hughes’s corner. As one would have expected, Leeds fought back with a determined assault just before half‑time and with increasingly desperate power through the second half.
The turning point of the match came in the seventieth minute, when Sunderland goalkeeper Jim Montgomery dived to palm away a header across goal from Cherry ‑ straight into the path of Lorimer, one of the most powerful and accurate shots in the game. Lorimer blasted the ball goalwards, but Montgomery, miraculously, managed to divert the ball on to the underside of the bar. It bounced clear.
There were more anxious moments for Sunderland, but they held out. More than that, Halom almost made it 2‑0 in the last seconds, forcing a brilliant save from Harvey.
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(Porterfield)
Montgomerie, Malone, Guthrie, Horswill, Watson, Pitt, Kerr, Hughes, Halom, Porterfield, Tueart
Leeds United
Harvery, Reaney, Cherry, Bremner Madeley, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles, Gray E
Referee: K Burns
Attendance: 100,000
MATCH REPORT
Leeds United, a team boasting ten internationals, and experienced in the conflicts of First Division and European competition, came to Wembley in 1973 as Cup‑holders for their third Final in four years. Sunderland came from the Second Division, and when their new manager Bob Stokoe took over during the season, they were third from bottom. No Second Division side had won the Cup for more than forty years, and very few people outside Sunderland gave them any chance of winning.
Leeds had their chances, and might have been ahead before Porter‑field scored the goal that won the Cup for Sunderland, on the half‑hour from H Hughes’s corner. As one would have expected, Leeds fought back with a determined assault just before half‑time and with increasingly desperate power through the second half.
The turning point of the match came in the seventieth minute, when Sunderland goalkeeper Jim Montgomery dived to palm away a header across goal from Cherry ‑ straight into the path of Lorimer, one of the most powerful and accurate shots in the game. Lorimer blasted the ball goalwards, but Montgomery, miraculously, managed to divert the ball on to the underside of the bar. It bounced clear.
There were more anxious moments for Sunderland, but they held out. More than that, Halom almost made it 2‑0 in the last seconds, forcing a brilliant save from Harvey.
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Happy Birthday SAFC.
Heres a nice report from the more recent times I managed to dig up:
Sunderland 4-1 Chelsea
04.12.1999
Gianluca Vialli had said earlier this week that if his side could not win at the Stadium of Light then they could wave goodbye to their hopes of the Premiership title.
Well, the cheerios and farewells will be ringing round the King's Road tonight - if anyone dares show their face - as the Blues crumbled to a humiliating defeat at the hands of a rampant Sunderland.
Much has been made of the hammering that Peter Reid's men took at the hands of Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on the opening day of the season, but if ever proof were needed of their improvement since then this was it. Make no mistake, this was a gubbing of epic proportions.
The Mackems pressed and pressed all over the park, as Vialli warned that they would, and the Blue balloon duly burst with an almighty bang, as Kevin Phillips and Niall Quinn wreaked havoc with a brace apiece in an astonishing opening period. The result was Chelsea's record defeat since the inception of the Premier League, but the damage may run much deeper then that.
The home side got off to the most perfect of perfect starts when they struck with just 45 seconds on the clock. Eric Roy jinked his way through the left-hand side of the Chelsea defence, who were giving a passable impression of training ground cones, apart from Desailly who tripped over a colleague's heels as he scurried back to cover, and the Frenchman cut the ball along the six yard line where Niall Quinn had the simplest of tasks to steer a close-range left-foot shot past Ed de Goey for his seventh of the season.
The shell-shocked Londoners struggled to match the physical intensity of their hosts and Desailly was fortunate to escape two minutes later when his pass out of defence was intercepted by Kevin Phillips, but the Frenchman managed to recover as the striker prepared to run in on goal.
De Goey had an uncomfortable moment with 14 minutes gone when he slipped as he prepared to receive Hogh's back pass, but that was nothing in comparison to the humiliation that was to come.
Shortly after Tore Andre Flo hit the side-netting with a left-foot strike, the ball broke to Kevin Phillips 27 yards out. Without breaking stride, he unleashed a venomous right-foot volley that soared, curled and before nestling in the corner of the net before the hapless de Goey had hit the ground after his athletic, but totally pointless, dive.
Stefan Schwarz somehow got in a low cross from the left which de Goey failed to hold and Phillips and the impressive Paul Thirlwell, who was making his Premiership debut, both had shots blocked in an almighty scramble.
But the floodgates were buckling, and they duly burst open with two more goals in as many minutes. De Goey did brilliantly to palm away Quinn's right-foot shot from eight yards but could do nothing as Phillips followed up at the far post to hook in his second of the game.
With Chelsea reeling, their battered defence failed to clear Nicky Summerbee's corner and Quinn capped a towering first-half display to lash the ball into the net from the left-hand side of the box.
Thrashing doesn't even come close.
No prizes for guessing that the second period struggled to match the first for excitement, but at least Chelsea managed to stem the tide. Flo burst through the middle, but the ball stuck under his feet and Tommy Sorensen was equal to the task when the shot came in.
Celestine Babayaro then fed Gustavo Poyet on the edge of the area but his left-foot strike on the swivel slid wide. However, the Uruguayan made ammends ten minutes from time when the Sunderland defence failed to deal with Zola's corner, and Poyet lashed in his sixth of the season.
Phillips suddenly realised that time was running out if he wanted to grab a hat-trick and twice brought the best out of de Goey, the Dutchman denying him first from distance with a flying stop and then from close range with his knees, after sublime skills from the England striker.
However, it is unlikely that he will shed many tears as he reflects on a quite breathtaking opening 45 minutes, although whether there will be such reticence in the away dressing room remains open to doubt.
Sunderland: Sorensen, Makin, Craddock, Williams, Gray, Summerbee (Holloway 84), Thirlwell, Roy, Schwarz, Quinn, Phillips.
Subs Not Used: Oster, Marriott, Reddy, Butler.
Goals: Quinn 1, Phillips 23, 36, Quinn 38.
Chelsea: De Goey, Lambourde, Babayaro, Desailly (Terry 46), Hogh, Poyet, Wise (Wolleaston 77), Morris, Harley (Goldbaek 46), Zola, Flo.
Subs Not Used: Petrescu, Cudicini.
Booked: Babayaro, Harley.
Goals: Poyet 81.
Att: 41,377
Ref: S Dunn (Bristol).
Heres a nice report from the more recent times I managed to dig up:
Sunderland 4-1 Chelsea
04.12.1999
Gianluca Vialli had said earlier this week that if his side could not win at the Stadium of Light then they could wave goodbye to their hopes of the Premiership title.
Well, the cheerios and farewells will be ringing round the King's Road tonight - if anyone dares show their face - as the Blues crumbled to a humiliating defeat at the hands of a rampant Sunderland.
Much has been made of the hammering that Peter Reid's men took at the hands of Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on the opening day of the season, but if ever proof were needed of their improvement since then this was it. Make no mistake, this was a gubbing of epic proportions.
The Mackems pressed and pressed all over the park, as Vialli warned that they would, and the Blue balloon duly burst with an almighty bang, as Kevin Phillips and Niall Quinn wreaked havoc with a brace apiece in an astonishing opening period. The result was Chelsea's record defeat since the inception of the Premier League, but the damage may run much deeper then that.
The home side got off to the most perfect of perfect starts when they struck with just 45 seconds on the clock. Eric Roy jinked his way through the left-hand side of the Chelsea defence, who were giving a passable impression of training ground cones, apart from Desailly who tripped over a colleague's heels as he scurried back to cover, and the Frenchman cut the ball along the six yard line where Niall Quinn had the simplest of tasks to steer a close-range left-foot shot past Ed de Goey for his seventh of the season.
The shell-shocked Londoners struggled to match the physical intensity of their hosts and Desailly was fortunate to escape two minutes later when his pass out of defence was intercepted by Kevin Phillips, but the Frenchman managed to recover as the striker prepared to run in on goal.
De Goey had an uncomfortable moment with 14 minutes gone when he slipped as he prepared to receive Hogh's back pass, but that was nothing in comparison to the humiliation that was to come.
Shortly after Tore Andre Flo hit the side-netting with a left-foot strike, the ball broke to Kevin Phillips 27 yards out. Without breaking stride, he unleashed a venomous right-foot volley that soared, curled and before nestling in the corner of the net before the hapless de Goey had hit the ground after his athletic, but totally pointless, dive.
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Stefan Schwarz somehow got in a low cross from the left which de Goey failed to hold and Phillips and the impressive Paul Thirlwell, who was making his Premiership debut, both had shots blocked in an almighty scramble.
But the floodgates were buckling, and they duly burst open with two more goals in as many minutes. De Goey did brilliantly to palm away Quinn's right-foot shot from eight yards but could do nothing as Phillips followed up at the far post to hook in his second of the game.
With Chelsea reeling, their battered defence failed to clear Nicky Summerbee's corner and Quinn capped a towering first-half display to lash the ball into the net from the left-hand side of the box.
Thrashing doesn't even come close.
No prizes for guessing that the second period struggled to match the first for excitement, but at least Chelsea managed to stem the tide. Flo burst through the middle, but the ball stuck under his feet and Tommy Sorensen was equal to the task when the shot came in.
Celestine Babayaro then fed Gustavo Poyet on the edge of the area but his left-foot strike on the swivel slid wide. However, the Uruguayan made ammends ten minutes from time when the Sunderland defence failed to deal with Zola's corner, and Poyet lashed in his sixth of the season.
Phillips suddenly realised that time was running out if he wanted to grab a hat-trick and twice brought the best out of de Goey, the Dutchman denying him first from distance with a flying stop and then from close range with his knees, after sublime skills from the England striker.
However, it is unlikely that he will shed many tears as he reflects on a quite breathtaking opening 45 minutes, although whether there will be such reticence in the away dressing room remains open to doubt.
Sunderland: Sorensen, Makin, Craddock, Williams, Gray, Summerbee (Holloway 84), Thirlwell, Roy, Schwarz, Quinn, Phillips.
Subs Not Used: Oster, Marriott, Reddy, Butler.
Goals: Quinn 1, Phillips 23, 36, Quinn 38.
Chelsea: De Goey, Lambourde, Babayaro, Desailly (Terry 46), Hogh, Poyet, Wise (Wolleaston 77), Morris, Harley (Goldbaek 46), Zola, Flo.
Subs Not Used: Petrescu, Cudicini.
Booked: Babayaro, Harley.
Goals: Poyet 81.
Att: 41,377
Ref: S Dunn (Bristol).
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Charles Murray Buchan Born 1892 in London - Died 1960
Captain of England, Sunderland and Arsenal
Charlie Buchan was a tall, elegant inside forward, a true great of English football before and after the Great War. As a young amateur he played 4 reserve games for Woolwich Arsenal reserves, and served an apprenticeship with Leyton Orient. In March 1911 he transferred to Sunderland.
After an average start to his Sunderland career everything clicked, and he went on to have 9 straight high scoring seasons, his lowest total being 13 goals. He is Sunderland's all time record league scorer, with 209 league goals to his credit. Charlie scored 5 goals in a 7-0 win against Liverpool in 1912 to equal the club record.
He was the leading Division 1 goal scorer in 1923 for Sunderland with 30 goals.
Career: 1910 - 25. Apps. 413, Goals 224
Medals: 1st div & FA Cup RU 1913
1914-15: joined the Grenadier Guards-Sergeant
15th February 1913: first cap for England against Ireland in Belfast
1925: transferred to Arsenal
Sunderland wanted a £4000 fee for Charles Buchan, which Arsenal thought a lot for a 33-year-old player. In the end he was transferred to Arsenal for a fee of £2000 and £100 per goal which ultimately cost £2100 in total - making £4100.
Herbert Chapman's first game as manager was on 29th August 1925, against Spurs at Highbury; Arsenal lost 1-0. This was also the first Arsenal game for Charles Buchan and the first game of the new offside ruling (to remain onside you now required two defenders in front of you rather than three!). His Arsenal record keeps him in the top ten all time Arsenal goal scorers.
Charles Buchan: Played 56 - Scored 120 - Ratio 0.47.
In March 1928 he retired from the game, aged 36, and joined the Daily News as a journalist - he had been writing articles for newspapers for many years - initially he covered cricket and golf as well as football. In 1930 he wrote a book of coaching instruction for the News Chronicle, which led to him helping at the first FA coaching scheme.
In 1933 he was sent to cover his first match abroad for England internationals with Italy in Rome, and Switzerland in Berne, for the News Chronicle. He also did occasional short broadcasts for the BBC.
1939-44: Wartime
He continued to report on wartime matches whilst working as a Home guard. Every match had spotters on the roofs of the Grandstands, looking out for bombers, but the fans would usually not leave the ground if a siren went off.
After the war he continued reporting for the News Chronicle paper and edited the News Chronicle Football Annuals 1948-1957
The Football Writers Association
The decision to form the FWA was made by Charles Buchan and 3 other journalists - Coles, Roy Peskett and Archie Quick on board a ship in the middle of the English Channel on September 22 1947. The four were returning from Brussels, where they had seen England beat Belgium 5-2 in a friendly international.
Within a month they had formalised some of the rules and regulations for the fledgling association; membership would be by invitation only, to "working journalists who are accredited football correspondents for newspapers and agencies". Headquarters were to be in London, with the initial membership fee set at five guineas for the first year, and two guineas annually thereafter - with an FWA tie included!
It was Charles Buchan who suggested that an award should be given "to the professional player who by precept and example is considered by a ballot of members to be the footballer of the year."
That was back in 1947 and since then the Footballer of the Year Award has become the most prestigious award in the British game. Voted for year-on-year by the FWA members, the first recipient was Sir Stanley Matthews.
1950: England's first attempt to win the World Cup
Buchan went to South America for the first time to report on England in the World Cup where Walter Winterbottom, the England manager, ensured the England players avoided garlic, pointing out the that "excessive use would not suit his men". England beat Chile 2-0 with Mortensen and Mannion scoring for England.
Then onto the infamous game against the United States in Belo Horizonte. The English reporters present were John Thompson (Daily Mirror), John MacAdam (Daily Express), Roy Peskett (Daily Mail), Charles Buchan (News Chronicle), Clifford Webb (Daily Herald), Vernon Morgan and John Graydon.
"There was no excuse for England's 1-0 humiliation. I rated the Americans on a par with a third division team like Rochdale, yet by sheer guts and enthusiasm they humbled mighty England" wrote Charles Buchan.
There were only 2 telephone lines to relay the story; " a strange spectacle of 6 reporters grouped round the phone on a deserted ground, frantically making bonfires of newspapers so that the copy could be read to the cable office in Rio, and thence onto faraway Fleet Street". Charles Buchan found himself locked in the ground and had to climb the gates to get out!
In the final group match against Spain England lost again 1-0, with Buchan complaining about the "Spaniards' tough tactics".
Charles Buchan's Football Monthly
started in September 1951
The first words written were "Our object is to provide a publication that will be worthy of our National game and the grand sportsmen who play and watch it".
And so it proved.
The first issue has started changing hands for £100.00 and the magazines are becoming increasingly collectable - not bad for something that originally cost 7½p (1s/6d).
It ran for just under 23 years in 3 different incarnations finally ceasing in June 1974.
Issues 1-240 Charles Buchan's Football Monthly
Issues 241-264 Football Monthly
Issues 265-274 Football Monthly Digest
Final words from "A Lifetime in Football"
Charles Buchan's autobiography 1955
"For many years, after the old Athletic News closed down, there was no paper or magazine devoted exclusively to the game. It was in a bid to fill this gap that in 1951 I started the Charles Buchan's Football Monthly. It has caught on so well that it was obvious something of the kind was desperately needed. It is a new field for me and I am getting as much pleasure from it as I did from my playing days. One is never too old to learn.
In life, just as in Football, there is always something new and interesting around the next corner".
[b[Ongoing Journalism[/b]
He covered England's Continental tour in the summer of 1952 and Wembley's greatest FA Cup Final in 1953-Bolton v Blackpool
He then went on the summer tour to Argentina in 1953. When England played Argentina and lost 3-1-the Argentine people were so jubilant that President Peron declared that, henceforth, 14th May would be Footballers Day.
England then lost to Uruguay 2-1 and avenged the events of 1950 by beating America 6-3 at the Yankee Stadium after Matt Busby reassured them that their precious turf would not be churned up by "such a secondary game as soccer"! This was also the first England game under floodlights.
Further national humiliation followed with the first match lost at home to a foreign team, 6-3 to Hungary. Charles Buchan commented "The thing that impressed me the most about the Hungarians was their supreme fitness - in training every exercise was done as though it was an actual match".
In May 1954 he had to commentate for the BBC on the match against Hungary, again in Budapest, where England lost 7-1. "I did not realise there was a double microphone in the booth and all my asides and groans were heard live throughout Britain".
Obituary
Many tributes were published to Charles Buchan in Charles Buchan's Football Monthly (September 1960) when he died aged 68.
"We know that his one object was that football in this country should be acknowledged as the best in the world, and it was towards this goal that he worked through the medium of Football Monthly. We all feel deeply the loss of our old friend".
George Swindin (Manager Arsenal FC).
Captain of England, Sunderland and Arsenal
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Charlie Buchan was a tall, elegant inside forward, a true great of English football before and after the Great War. As a young amateur he played 4 reserve games for Woolwich Arsenal reserves, and served an apprenticeship with Leyton Orient. In March 1911 he transferred to Sunderland.
After an average start to his Sunderland career everything clicked, and he went on to have 9 straight high scoring seasons, his lowest total being 13 goals. He is Sunderland's all time record league scorer, with 209 league goals to his credit. Charlie scored 5 goals in a 7-0 win against Liverpool in 1912 to equal the club record.
He was the leading Division 1 goal scorer in 1923 for Sunderland with 30 goals.
Career: 1910 - 25. Apps. 413, Goals 224
Medals: 1st div & FA Cup RU 1913
1914-15: joined the Grenadier Guards-Sergeant
15th February 1913: first cap for England against Ireland in Belfast
1925: transferred to Arsenal
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Sunderland wanted a £4000 fee for Charles Buchan, which Arsenal thought a lot for a 33-year-old player. In the end he was transferred to Arsenal for a fee of £2000 and £100 per goal which ultimately cost £2100 in total - making £4100.
Herbert Chapman's first game as manager was on 29th August 1925, against Spurs at Highbury; Arsenal lost 1-0. This was also the first Arsenal game for Charles Buchan and the first game of the new offside ruling (to remain onside you now required two defenders in front of you rather than three!). His Arsenal record keeps him in the top ten all time Arsenal goal scorers.
Charles Buchan: Played 56 - Scored 120 - Ratio 0.47.
In March 1928 he retired from the game, aged 36, and joined the Daily News as a journalist - he had been writing articles for newspapers for many years - initially he covered cricket and golf as well as football. In 1930 he wrote a book of coaching instruction for the News Chronicle, which led to him helping at the first FA coaching scheme.
In 1933 he was sent to cover his first match abroad for England internationals with Italy in Rome, and Switzerland in Berne, for the News Chronicle. He also did occasional short broadcasts for the BBC.
1939-44: Wartime
He continued to report on wartime matches whilst working as a Home guard. Every match had spotters on the roofs of the Grandstands, looking out for bombers, but the fans would usually not leave the ground if a siren went off.
After the war he continued reporting for the News Chronicle paper and edited the News Chronicle Football Annuals 1948-1957
The Football Writers Association
The decision to form the FWA was made by Charles Buchan and 3 other journalists - Coles, Roy Peskett and Archie Quick on board a ship in the middle of the English Channel on September 22 1947. The four were returning from Brussels, where they had seen England beat Belgium 5-2 in a friendly international.
Within a month they had formalised some of the rules and regulations for the fledgling association; membership would be by invitation only, to "working journalists who are accredited football correspondents for newspapers and agencies". Headquarters were to be in London, with the initial membership fee set at five guineas for the first year, and two guineas annually thereafter - with an FWA tie included!
It was Charles Buchan who suggested that an award should be given "to the professional player who by precept and example is considered by a ballot of members to be the footballer of the year."
That was back in 1947 and since then the Footballer of the Year Award has become the most prestigious award in the British game. Voted for year-on-year by the FWA members, the first recipient was Sir Stanley Matthews.
1950: England's first attempt to win the World Cup
Buchan went to South America for the first time to report on England in the World Cup where Walter Winterbottom, the England manager, ensured the England players avoided garlic, pointing out the that "excessive use would not suit his men". England beat Chile 2-0 with Mortensen and Mannion scoring for England.
Then onto the infamous game against the United States in Belo Horizonte. The English reporters present were John Thompson (Daily Mirror), John MacAdam (Daily Express), Roy Peskett (Daily Mail), Charles Buchan (News Chronicle), Clifford Webb (Daily Herald), Vernon Morgan and John Graydon.
"There was no excuse for England's 1-0 humiliation. I rated the Americans on a par with a third division team like Rochdale, yet by sheer guts and enthusiasm they humbled mighty England" wrote Charles Buchan.
There were only 2 telephone lines to relay the story; " a strange spectacle of 6 reporters grouped round the phone on a deserted ground, frantically making bonfires of newspapers so that the copy could be read to the cable office in Rio, and thence onto faraway Fleet Street". Charles Buchan found himself locked in the ground and had to climb the gates to get out!
In the final group match against Spain England lost again 1-0, with Buchan complaining about the "Spaniards' tough tactics".
Charles Buchan's Football Monthly
started in September 1951
The first words written were "Our object is to provide a publication that will be worthy of our National game and the grand sportsmen who play and watch it".
And so it proved.
The first issue has started changing hands for £100.00 and the magazines are becoming increasingly collectable - not bad for something that originally cost 7½p (1s/6d).
It ran for just under 23 years in 3 different incarnations finally ceasing in June 1974.
Issues 1-240 Charles Buchan's Football Monthly
Issues 241-264 Football Monthly
Issues 265-274 Football Monthly Digest
Final words from "A Lifetime in Football"
Charles Buchan's autobiography 1955
"For many years, after the old Athletic News closed down, there was no paper or magazine devoted exclusively to the game. It was in a bid to fill this gap that in 1951 I started the Charles Buchan's Football Monthly. It has caught on so well that it was obvious something of the kind was desperately needed. It is a new field for me and I am getting as much pleasure from it as I did from my playing days. One is never too old to learn.
In life, just as in Football, there is always something new and interesting around the next corner".
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He covered England's Continental tour in the summer of 1952 and Wembley's greatest FA Cup Final in 1953-Bolton v Blackpool
He then went on the summer tour to Argentina in 1953. When England played Argentina and lost 3-1-the Argentine people were so jubilant that President Peron declared that, henceforth, 14th May would be Footballers Day.
England then lost to Uruguay 2-1 and avenged the events of 1950 by beating America 6-3 at the Yankee Stadium after Matt Busby reassured them that their precious turf would not be churned up by "such a secondary game as soccer"! This was also the first England game under floodlights.
Further national humiliation followed with the first match lost at home to a foreign team, 6-3 to Hungary. Charles Buchan commented "The thing that impressed me the most about the Hungarians was their supreme fitness - in training every exercise was done as though it was an actual match".
In May 1954 he had to commentate for the BBC on the match against Hungary, again in Budapest, where England lost 7-1. "I did not realise there was a double microphone in the booth and all my asides and groans were heard live throughout Britain".
Obituary
Many tributes were published to Charles Buchan in Charles Buchan's Football Monthly (September 1960) when he died aged 68.
"We know that his one object was that football in this country should be acknowledged as the best in the world, and it was towards this goal that he worked through the medium of Football Monthly. We all feel deeply the loss of our old friend".
George Swindin (Manager Arsenal FC).
MorpethianMackem
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yorkyexile
Striker
SAFC has given me twenty five years of every emotion possible, its given wearside 125 years of the same.happy bithday safc,i hope theres 125years and more to come
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eriogerg_ylor
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Someone please post a pic of Monty's 1973 save.... Can't seem to find a copy of it on the web ! bizarre...
Great thread MBH.....
Gerld
Great thread MBH.....
Gerld
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the streaker
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eriogerg_ylor said:
The only one I could find last night is on page one and Gold is indeed where this is destined to live after it has runs its glorious course.................... 8)
David Hosselhaff
Winger
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Horatio Stratton Carter
Horatio Stratton Carter better known as Raich Carter, was born on 21st December 1913, in Hendon, Sunderland, Tyne & wear. Raich Carter was a legend at Sunderland Football Club. He was an obvious winner from the start being awarded four England caps at schoolboy level in the 1926-28 period. Sunderland FC, ever watchful for local talent, signed him on amateur forms following an unsuccessful trial for Leicester City, from which he earned a professional engagement.
His widowed mother had been left with three young children, an uncle taking care of the family and Raich joining the paid ranks enabled him to become the family's main financial prop. He made his senior bow two months before his 19th birthday. By the age of 24 he had won all of the then top honours available in the English game. international caps, Inter-League, League .Championship and FA Cup winner's medals. He shone at cricket, too and was awarded his county cap by Durham county cricket club in 1932 when he made three appearances for Derbyshire.
Raich Carter was a Sunderland lad who captained his home town club to the league title and their first FA Cup final victory. He was the league's joint top scorer with 31 goals during the title winning season and scored 3 in the cup run, including the winner in the final. He married a few days before the final, and when the Queen presented him with the Cup she said: "That will make a fine wedding present."
Carter transferred to Derby County towards the end of the War, a club for whom he had been a guest player while on RAF service. These guest appearances were highlighted by an inside-forward partnership with Irish celebrity Peter Doherty, who also moved 'permanently' to Derby in December 1945. The pair played a major part in the Rams' annexation of the first post-war FA Cup.
Raich's next move as Hull City's player manager also produced a triumph as he helped steer the club into Division Two via the 1948-49 Division Three (North) Championship. He became a legend in Hull as elsewhere, the local papers coining of the 'silver haired maestro' tag striking a true and lasting chord.
He led his new club, Derby County, to their first ever FA Cup. This made Carter the only player to have won a Cup winner's medal either side of the War. His departure from the club in September 1951 left them rudderless, and it was only after he was persuaded to return as a player, that the Tigers managed to win their battle against relegation.
At the age of nearly 40, he was still winning medals, this time in Ireland with Cork. This also brought a tangible reward in the guise of a FA Cup-winner's medal. It maintained his record of winning honours with every club he played for. He then continued in the game on the management side. It was a high standard to achieve in such a lengthy career but Carter would have accepted no less. He set himself high standards and expected the same from others.
Raich was a legend of the game either side of the 2nd World War, not only for the Lads, also with England, Derby County and as player manager of Hull City. As a mark of his lasting fame a leisure centre, in his native Hendon, has recently been named after him more than half a century after his last game for the club.
Trevor Brooking CBE officially opened the Raich Carter Sports Centre built just a corner kick away from where he used to live in October. More than 60 guests attended, including Raich's widow, Mrs Patricia Carter and family members, to see the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at Sunderland's newest multi-purpose sports centre.
Raich Carter was an aristocrat of the football world. So highly regarded was this man that even his peers, often referred to him as the Maestro. One of the most successful and happiest times of the Club's history can be linked to the presence of a man whose hair was silver but whose talent was 24 carat gold. Raich Carter died on the 9th October 1994, at Willerby, Hull, Yorkshire.
Raich Carter also had another claim to fame. After researching their family tree, it seems a relative of Raich discovered that he was related to Captain James Cook. Captain James Cook turned out to be Raich's great, great, great uncle. The family connection story was covered by the Sunderland Echo.
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David Hosselhaff
Winger
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sonofrowell
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I would like to meet those responsible and geuinely thank them for all the good times their offspring has brought to me... 
whilst squeezing their hand exceptionally hard for all the pain also... (joke)
Will have a tipple tonight and get the old "memory lane" videos out!
Cheers Sunderland A.F.C.
whilst squeezing their hand exceptionally hard for all the pain also... (joke)Will have a tipple tonight and get the old "memory lane" videos out!
Cheers Sunderland A.F.C.
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