MEMBERS of Norwood Road Juniors’ final year football team of 1957 have got in touch over the team photograph featured last month. (Oct 26).
Ian Grisdale lamented that the team’s triumph at Haig Avenue extended only to winning the Greenhall Cup – a third place trophy rather than the coveted Duddy Shield for the champions of the inter-schools contest.
“Half the lads were ill,� he said, explaining why the team of 11-year-olds had lost a crucial match.
Ian went from Norwood Road to KGV grammar and then had a career primarily in the motor trade, and he still lives in Southport.
Bob Burns was another team member who went on to KGV, followed by a career with British Telecom.
A long-time resident of Birkdale before moving to Scotland two years ago, Bob, now 61, lived in Salisbury Road in High Park as a schoolboy. He remembered that it was Paul Switzer who scored the only goal when Norwood Road beat Crossens 1-0 in the 1957 cup.
“We should have been 2-0 up by half time but Barry Campbell and John Cotton both had penalties saved by the Crossens goalkeeper,� he added.“We were never going to get any medals for it. We had to go around the team members’ families for money and send it off to get them!�.
The names of the full Norwood Road team are now known. Clockwise, starting with the back row, centre, is goalkeeper Norman Graney, Barry Johnson, Stuart Holmes, ‘Spud’ Robson, Ian Grisdale, Barry Campbell, Bobbie Burns, John Cotton, John Rigby, Tommy Wareing and Paul Switzer.
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Norman Graney (GK) wrote...
i was very suprised too see our old school photograph on the net and i would like to say hello to everyone whose on the photograph leave me an email at my email address gabbeylands@aol.com an i will certainly get back to you thanks Norman Graney
Posted by: Norman Graney (GK) | May 18, 2008 1:36 AM