Freddie Goodwin.
Well-known member
(Dedicated to Fazz)
Slightly before I had started watching, on 1st Feb 1967 Albion played Aldershot in a 3rd round FA Cup replay. I am indebted to 'On This Day' which throws up some interesting points.
Bearing in mid we were mid div 3 and Shots were div 4, the crowd was an incredible 29,000 and that followed on from nearly 13,000 in the away tie. This generated record receipts of £6,250, undoubtable beaten soon after by the 4th round tie v Chelsea, which was a full house of 35,000.
Local lad Eric Whittington, Kit napier and Charlie Livesey scored and, apparently, Livesey became the 1st substitute to ever score for the Albion. The final score was 3-1.
A couple of years later, on this day in 1969, I was there to see Freddie Goodwin's side beat Shrewsbury 3-0 in a pretty comfortable match memorable by a goal from Albion skipper nobby Lawton. The Shres keeper kicked the ball out from the edge of his area and lawton, on the half-way line, caught it on the volley to send it straight back over the startled keeper's head.
Slightly before I had started watching, on 1st Feb 1967 Albion played Aldershot in a 3rd round FA Cup replay. I am indebted to 'On This Day' which throws up some interesting points.
Bearing in mid we were mid div 3 and Shots were div 4, the crowd was an incredible 29,000 and that followed on from nearly 13,000 in the away tie. This generated record receipts of £6,250, undoubtable beaten soon after by the 4th round tie v Chelsea, which was a full house of 35,000.
Local lad Eric Whittington, Kit napier and Charlie Livesey scored and, apparently, Livesey became the 1st substitute to ever score for the Albion. The final score was 3-1.
A couple of years later, on this day in 1969, I was there to see Freddie Goodwin's side beat Shrewsbury 3-0 in a pretty comfortable match memorable by a goal from Albion skipper nobby Lawton. The Shres keeper kicked the ball out from the edge of his area and lawton, on the half-way line, caught it on the volley to send it straight back over the startled keeper's head.