[Albion] 1914 and 1939 seasons?

[Change at Barnham]

What decision was taken in the 1914 and 1939 seasons? Was each season completed?

 

[Gwylan]

What decision was taken in the 1914 and 1939 seasons? Was each season completed?

1914 was - there was a feeling that the football was good for morale, but subsequent seasons were cancelled

1939 started but was cancelled after a few games

 

[Nobby]

There was League football in the 39-45 war

Anyone available could play

 

[Gwylan]

There was League football in the 39-45 war

Anyone available could play

There was football but the Football League was suspended. What took its place was a series of regional leagues. These changed season by season. In 39/40 the Albion played in two leagues (South B and South D), in 40/41 in League South, in 41/42 a London league etc

There were no registration so players from other clubs could and did turn up and play. And there were no set number of games, so teams could play 30-odd games while another team played a dozen

Interestingly for the current debate, the league postion - given that not everyone played the same number - was decided by average points per game.

 

[Worthing exile]

In 1939-45 who qualified for Europe?

ok I will get my coat.

 

[SK1NT]

A good trivia question based around the war break...

Who has held the FA cup the longest?







Portsmouth. They won it just before football was stooped for the war

 

[Sorrel]

And after the war, the leagues restarted with the teams in the same leagues - which is what we should do this time.

 

[Brighton Lines]

For those who don't know. Albion lost 18-0 at Norwich on Christmas Day 1940. A silly match.

1 first teamer, 3 youngsters and a borrowed player from Bolton.

The rest were offered up by Norwich or came from the crowd.

In the war years you took your boots as well as a flask to the match.

 

[Brighton Lines]

A good trivia question based around the war break...

Who has held the FA cup the longest?







Portsmouth. They won it just before football was stooped for the war

It was actually Lord Kinnaird

He was given the old trophy in 1910 and his family held it for 95 years.....

 

[atfc village]

39 to 45 Aldershot had the likes of Frank Swift ,Jack Rowley,Joe Mercer,Stan Cullis,Tommy Lawton,and Dennis Compton guesting . All huge players in their day.

 

[AmexRuislip]

1914 was - there was a feeling that the football was good for morale, but subsequent seasons were cancelled

1939 started but was cancelled after a few games

Luckily enough then, they didn't have the worries of what stream the game would be on, the Pathe news sponsorship failing or Lord Paul Barber saying by email your country needs you

 

[lawros left foot]

It was actually Lord Kinnaird

He was given the old trophy in 1910 and his family held it for 95 years.....

Is this because he worked for Kinnaird for the FA?

 

[blue-shifted]

For those who don't know. Albion lost 18-0 at Norwich on Christmas Day 1940. A silly match.

1 first teamer, 3 youngsters and a borrowed player from Bolton.

The rest were offered up by Norwich or came from the crowd.

In the war years you took your boots as well as a flask to the match.

I've got a Norwich mate who jibes at me about this scoreline occasionally, normally after a good few beers

My response is a similarly glib, "must have been more of our lot off fighting than your lot"

Sadly that's as grown up as our conversations get

 

[SK1NT]

It was actually Lord Kinnaird

He was given the old trophy in 1910 and his family held it for 95 years.....

 

[Grombleton]

Is this because he worked for Kinnaird for the FA?

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

It was actually Lord Kinnaird

He was given the old trophy in 1910 and his family held it for 95 years.....

Is the correct answer, as I kept telling my Pompey-supporting colleagues when I was the only Albion fan where I was working at the time. If they'd asked "which club?" rather than "who?" I'd have given them the answer they wanted to hear!

 

[Notters]

For those who don't know. Albion lost 18-0 at Norwich on Christmas Day 1940. A silly match.

1 first teamer, 3 youngsters and a borrowed player from Bolton.

The rest were offered up by Norwich or came from the crowd.

In the war years you took your boots as well as a flask to the match.

And presumably if you were good enough you would be arrested for not being in the forces or whatnot?

 

[Baker lite]

For those who don't know. Albion lost 18-0 at Norwich on Christmas Day 1940. A silly match.

1 first teamer, 3 youngsters and a borrowed player from Bolton.

The rest were offered up by Norwich or came from the crowd.

In the war years you took your boots as well as a flask to the match.

Barber would have done his pieces...

 

[darkwolf666]

In 1939-45 who qualified for Europe?

ok I will get my coat.

I’m not sure, but I think the away leg was in Poland!

 

[East Staffs Gull]

39 to 45 Aldershot had the likes of Frank Swift ,Jack Rowley,Joe Mercer,Stan Cullis,Tommy Lawton,and Dennis Compton guesting . All huge players in their day.

Did they get barracked much?