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From: Peter Amsden <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Footballers
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:45:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <01f401c5105d$577c6420$3200a8c0@mshome>


Hi Ros,

Thank you for that. Probably another of those wonderful family rumours. He
most likely worked at the Spurs as a groundsman or some such. Amazing what
young men will tell the girls!

Kind regards

Peter
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Peter Amsden
Argyll, Scotland


> From: "Rosemary Jarvis" <>
> Reply-To:
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:15:50 -0000

> Hi Peter
>
> This was dictated to me by the worlds best most anorakish football freak I
> have ever met ...
>
> ''I have referred to the 1985/6 edition of ''And the Spurs Go Marching On''
> which is the official history of their first 100 years as a club. Up to
> 1907/8 they were at best a southern league team and became a football league
> team only in 1908/9. The southern league was however a professional league
> and of a not much lower standard - the Spurs remain the only ''non league''
> (southern league) club to have won the FA cup.
>
> The book lists all first team appearances by players from season 1896/7 and
> your man is not mentioned. He may still briefly have been a professional
> with spurs but not made the grade.''
>
> Sorry it is not helpful - he is sure there will be an internet site but he
> is not an expert on the internet so has no real idea.
>

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