• Chelsea - Dynamo Moscow 1945 (R) ;-)

    From jvazquez@24:150/2 to rec.sport.soccer on Fri Nov 13 03:02:41 2020

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54839305
    Dynamo Moscow's 1945 tour of Britain: Was it really 'war minus the shooting?' By Chris Howells
    BBC Wales Sport
    It was a Tuesday afternoon in November 1945 and the streets of Fulham were teeming. Tens of thousands of people were about to witness something most hadn't been able to since 1939, while for some it would be a lifetime first. They were on their way to attend a football match where a British team faced foreign opposition.
    Local residents were hiring out their front gardens for bicycle storage, on street corners people were selling toffee apples, oranges and match programmes, while touts were getting -u4 for tickets that originally cost 10 shillings - eight times the face value.
    (...)
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  • From Bruce Scott@24:150/2 to rec.sport.soccer on Fri Nov 13 13:26:04 2020
    On 2020-11-13, jvazquez <jvazquez@semavenca.com> wrote:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54839305

    Just read it a few minutes ago... brilliant!

    "Wait a minute, let them score a goal" :-)

    --
    ciao, Bruce
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  • From jvazquez@24:150/2 to rec.sport.soccer on Fri Nov 13 06:42:32 2020
    El viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2020 a las 15:26:09 UTC+2, Bruce Scott escribi||:
    On 2020-11-13, jvazquez <jvaz...@semavenca.com> wrote:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54839305

    Just read it a few minutes ago... brilliant!

    "Wait a minute, let them score a goal" :-)

    --
    ciao, Bruce
    They warmed up before matches and gave flowers to the Chelsea players... Class... hehe...
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  • From MH@24:150/2 to rec.sport.soccer on Fri Nov 13 17:06:39 2020
    On 2020-11-13 04:02, jvazquez wrote:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54839305

    Dynamo Moscow's 1945 tour of Britain: Was it really 'war minus the shooting?' By Chris Howells
    BBC Wales Sport

    It was a Tuesday afternoon in November 1945 and the streets of Fulham were teeming. Tens of thousands of people were about to witness something most hadn't been able to since 1939, while for some it would be a lifetime first. They were on their way to attend a football match where a British team faced foreign opposition.

    Local residents were hiring out their front gardens for bicycle storage, on street corners people were selling toffee apples, oranges and match programmes, while touts were getting -u4 for tickets that originally cost 10 shillings - eight times the face value.

    (...)



    My dad used to talk about those games. I presume he followed them on
    the radio, since I doubt he could have got (or afforded) tickets to the
    game at Ibrox. He was most amused by the accounts of the bewilderment
    of the English teams by Dynamo making substitutions (unheard of at that
    time in Britain). One captain (Arsenal ?) was alleged to have complained
    to the referee "Ref, I suggest you count the opposition"
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