Six Days To Saturday. Old video with Mike Summerbee.

[AliBobbyJ]

Unsure where to post this but as it includes one of City's own I'll put it in the main forum.

Just found this on You Tube: "!963. A Week With Swindon Town F.C. Six Days To Saturday." It's a fascinating 40 minute BBC documentary following the team as they prepare for a big game with plenty of shots of Mike Summerbee on and off the pitch. He's at his landlady's, playing kickabout with kids in the street, and in the team bath. Different world, short hair, players starting the day with a ciggy and fans shaking rattles at the match.

 

[remember arthur mann]

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

A great find.

Watched Buzzer score for Swindon in their 2-1 win at a freezing Maine Road in 1965,

City's lowest ever league attendance 8.015.

Nice footage of Swindon loco shed.

 

[Gray]

A great find.

Watched Buzzer score for Swindon in their 2-1 win at a freezing Maine Road in 1965,

City's lowest ever league attendance 8.015.

Nice footage of Swindon loco shed.

I was there, my programme from the match.

 

[remember arthur mann]

I'll have to have a root in my programme box. If I remember rightly there were no buses that day. Walked from Newton upon the Heath. About a 10 mile round trip.

 

[johnnytapia]

I was waiting for the World at War theme to kick in.

 

[TShed]

Funny that my first match was a 5-0 win over Leyton Orient

 

[remember arthur mann]

Seeing as we're doing history, check this out.
A day when Busby retired from front line managing the rags. Bobby Owen's wedding day but still turned out for City. Buzzer sticking one in @ 20 min-ish.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Oh I absolutely LOVE all of the old footage, pix of programmes.

I'll try and find the Buzzer vid on YouTube, I'm an old foc and prefer to view on my 75" TV!

I was a young kid in the 60s, but I've sort of got a lot of consciousness from about 1965 onwards - Churchills Funeral, The Beatles, bloody Dips winning FA Cup, Sonny and Cher, my birthday party and the itchy red dress and one of the best Christmases ever.

I will also look forward to seeing the Swindon loco sheds, cos I like a bit of vintage steam. When we went to Swindon about 20 years ago, sheds were a shopping centre.

BTW I had no interest in footy in 65, as a girl more interested in my Sindy doll but the memory of Dips winning that FA Cup has stayed in my mind!!

Keep on please folks posting the historical memories x

 

[AliBobbyJ]

A great find.

Watched Buzzer score for Swindon in their 2-1 win at a freezing Maine Road in 1965,

City's lowest ever league attendance 8.015.

Nice footage of Swindon loco shed.

Also in that Swindon team was Ernie Hunt who went on to play for Coventry and scored a memorable goal from a free kick, volleyiing it into the net after another player did a two-footed donkey kick to lift the ball in the air. It was on MOTD that night.
Glad I'm not the only one who enjoyed the locos, too..

 

[remember arthur mann]

Also in that Swindon team was Ernie Hunt who went on to play for Coventry and scored a memorable goal from a free kick, volleyiing it into the net after another player did a two-footed donkey kick to lift the ball in the air. It was on MOTD that night.
Glad I'm not the only one who enjoyed the locos, too..

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[johnnytapia]

Oh I absolutely LOVE all of the old footage, pix of programmes.

I'll try and find the Buzzer vid on YouTube, I'm an old foc and prefer to view on my 75" TV!

I was a young kid in the 60s, but I've sort of got a lot of consciousness from about 1965 onwards - Churchills Funeral, The Beatles, bloody Dips winning FA Cup, Sonny and Cher, my birthday party and the itchy red dress and one of the best Christmases ever.

I will also look forward to seeing the Swindon loco sheds, cos I like a bit of vintage steam. When we went to Swindon about 20 years ago, sheds were a shopping centre.

BTW I had no interest in footy in 65, as a girl more interested in my Sindy doll but the memory of Dips winning that FA Cup has stayed in my mind!!

Keep on please folks posting the historical memories x

Dinting was the place my dad loved taking us.

 

[Blue Maverick]

A great find.

Watched Buzzer score for Swindon in their 2-1 win at a freezing Maine Road in 1965,

City's lowest ever league attendance 8.015.

Nice footage of Swindon loco shed.

Empty seats

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Dinting was the place my dad loved taking us.

Four Bridges near Eccles Station. The massively wide tracks were lifted to make way for the M602.

Used to be great standing on there when the steam engines whizzed past. The smell and the memories.

 

[surprisedbygrass]

Unsure where to post this but as it includes one of City's own I'll put it in the main forum.

Just found this on You Tube: "!963. A Week With Swindon Town F.C. Six Days To Saturday." It's a fascinating 40 minute BBC documentary following the team as they prepare for a big game with plenty of shots of Mike Summerbee on and off the pitch. He's at his landlady's, playing kickabout with kids in the street, and in the team bath. Different world, short hair, players starting the day with a ciggy and fans shaking rattles at the match.

Thank you . It came up in my you tube feed too . I subscribe to the BBC documentary archive and there are so many high quality gems .

As well as seeing a sharply dressed young Buzzer there was the crowd favourite, teenager Don Rogers, who spent a lot of time combing his hair .

It was interesting how insightful the voiceover was when he said that footballers , once they'd finished training at 11 am , had long hours to fill but weren't really "living" as they had to exist as sort of demi gods and be careful not to take risks or misbehave as young lads do . The public worshipped them and they were seen as representative of the town.

There was a lot of footage of the players killing time , signing autographs , just waiting waiting waiting for Saturday at 3 pm . The wage was £62 a week and linked to gate receipts so a lot for those days but their lives weren't lavish . One of the players was filmed shopping for a washing machine on the high street.

The scene I liked best was in the digs where the landlady brought Rogers breakfast in bed at 11 am , looked like the Full Monty. Get that down you , lad .

 

[mcfcinprague]

Dinting was the place my dad loved taking us.

My dad worked at Reddish

 

[Vic]

Dinting was the place my dad loved taking us.

Cheapskate. He could have taken you to Guide Bridge for a bit more variety.