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My local team, Maidenhead United (I played for them for a couple of seasons 1969/70) last week celebrated the 150th anniversary of their first game on their ground at York Road, Maidenhead. They claim to have the oldest 'continually used' ground in the world. (Hallam FC claim to have the...

Norman Hunter has died from Covid-19. RIP.

Spotted this in our local (Maidenhead Advertiser) paper today. A keen Everton supporter recently celebrated his 100th birthday (December 17). Born in Liverpool in 1919. Served in WW2 in India, Ceylon and Burma. Don't know the guy but he is a fellow Toffee. Am going to send him a belated...

We had an Uncle Charlie, Mum's brother. Our Dad worked away a lot and Uncle Charlie used to visit us, usually on a Sunday. I was 13 and my brother 14. Uncle Charlie used to regale us with stories of his time in the Navy during WW1. He was also a fan of boxing and told us stories of fights he...

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Sorting out some old papers when I came across two old newspapers my (grown up) kids bought me some years ago. One was a Daily Herald published on the day I was born, the other was a Daily Express published on the day that war broke out. The latter was dated 4 September 1939 which happened to...

I'll start with two. At secondary school in Liverpool (St Matthews in Richard Kelly drive) I sat next to a lad whose birthday was the day after mine. Mine was on St Patrick's day. I left school in 1951 and my Dad's job moved us to Leeds later that year. I never saw my desk pal again. In...

Apart from the Birkenhead ferry, I had never 'been to sea'. I returned from Singapore to the UK by troopship, HMS Dunera. The Dunera was the smallest of the troopships at only 13,000 tons. Half the size of the others. The Suez Canal was closed due to the Suez crises so we had to go round the...

My three are: 1. Being introduce to Bill Shankly who in turn introduced me to a young Denis Law. Huddersfield Town 1958. 2. Being presented with a bottle of champagne by Bobby Moore for winning a 'guess the score' competition at Wembley. 3. Playing against a Leeds United eleven when Don...

Methuselah submitted an update to GrandOldTeam's homepage FANS EMAILS: We've come for a trial Our favourite Uncle Charlie, Mum's brother, used to come and see me and my brother quite often. He had no sons of his own and he used to regale us with stories of his time in the Navy during WW1...

There was no football during the second world war but older lads and adults talked about the football league and the FA Cup. An older lad who we played football with threatened to beat up me and my brother if we didn't support Everton. What a favour he did for us! Saw my first game at Goodison...