FIFTY years ago, in May 1970, Evenwood Town Football Club epitomised the spirit of the Northern League by winning the league title for only the second time in their history and, just for good measure, took the Durham Challenge Cup as well.
EXACTLY 80 years ago, practically all of south-west Durham was in London to witness the 1950 FA Amateur Cup final between Bishop Auckland and Willington. Eighty-eight thousand people were at Wembley to watch the clash in those post-war glamour days when local “amateur” football was as keenly followed as today’s professional Premiership.
YOU have to go back 65 years to find the last time Newcastle United lifted the FA Cup, a 3-1 win over Manchester City at Wembley in 1955. It was Newcastle's third FA Cup win in five years and sixth in total.
THE 1959 FA Amateur Cup final at Wembley stadium 60 years ago this week was billed as a clash between the experience of Crook Town and the youthful exuberance of Barnet.
It is 60 years ago this week that Crook Town won the FA Amateur Cup at Wembley. Here two young men remember that momentous day
ONE of the thrills of being a schoolboy in the 1950s was going with your dad to watch a Northern League football match on a Saturday afternoon. In my case it was to the Millfield ground in Crook, and depending on kick-off time, we either travelled on the United bus or on the train. In the 1957-58 season we used the bus a lot because one of the Crook players, Cyril Gowland, also travelled on the United bus to home games. Cyril usually sat three or four seats from the front on the driver's side. W
'EVERY cloud has a silver lining' described perfectly the situation in our house during the period March/April 1959.
THERE had been 55 FA Amateur Cup competitions before the 1958-59 competition took place, and in 1958-59 Bishop Auckland, Crook Town and Shildon all represented the Northern League and South West Durham at the quarter-final stage.
STEVE JONES is approaching 80, but he has never forgotten playing for Dawdon CW against Blackhall CW in a Durham Challenge Cup 1st Round tie, which we have billed as "the greatest game" for two reasons.
FROM little acorns mighty oaks do grow, suitably describes the start, development and expansion of the Spraire Lads and Lasses Football Club in Darlington.
