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Off to '64 Cup Final

Off to '64 Cup Final

Tark

Tark

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The Preston Past and Present Facebook page has a nice photo of Nobbers setting off for the match at Preston Station:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...&set=gm.2074936716071868&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Might jog memories for some?
(sorry, but I've never been able to work out how to post pictures on the forum, so if someone can find the picture in the link and put it up, that would be helpful!)

27500227_2032738843674496_1180063649320513469_o.jpg
 
Tark said:
The Preston Past and Present Facebook page has a nice photo of Nobbers setting off for the match at Preston Station:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...&set=gm.2074936716071868&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Might jog memories for some?
(sorry, but I've never been able to work out how to post pictures on the forum, so if someone can find the picture in the link and put it up, that would be helpful!)

27500227_2032738843674496_1180063649320513469_o.jpg
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I wonder if that bloke at the front has got a stash of Stellas in his small case for the train journey ??
 
Tark said:
The Preston Past and Present Facebook page has a nice photo of Nobbers setting off for the match at Preston Station:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...&set=gm.2074936716071868&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Might jog memories for some?
(sorry, but I've never been able to work out how to post pictures on the forum, so if someone can find the picture in the link and put it up, that would be helpful!)

27500227_2032738843674496_1180063649320513469_o.jpg
Click to expand...


My dad went but he is not in that picture. I would hazard a guess that is about 9.00am. At that time I was settling down in a chair on the eastern edge of Preston from where I barely moved all day watching first the build-up and the match until at a little after twenty minutes to five it all crumpled into dust... Can't remember what I did for the rest of the day but I was in the marketplace the following day when the team made their return. OK we lost but the sheer quality of football we played that day in front of the whole country still make it one of the finest if cruellest days ever for this club. Very few of the team who played that day are now left - just Dave Wilson, Alex Dawson and Doug Holden - but they all live on in a pantheon of glory that will never fade.
 
Thanks someone for the pic!
Interesting to see how people dressed up for the final - every chap in shirt & tie!
 
Is that Matt Busby wearing a flat cap, stood behind the young lad. I was lucky enough to get be given a replica shirt signed by 7 of the team, when I left work a few years ago.
 
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