It`s a little known fact that

Stumped is Sandy

That questions not on google eh

Want the answer, Sandy?
Or are you still thinking

Leave it out Thudd!

It's unfair to say Sandy isn't genuine

Thudd.

Stumped is Sandy

That questions not on google eh



Shut up you plank, I had actually gone off to do other things, I do have a life outside of JA606. Just because you know fecccck all about the club, outside of the modern era. Don`t diss other posters who are more knowledgeable than yourself. Us oldies don`t have to wiki or goggle everything to get answers.


In answer to Ted, the Spurs 1951 title winning team had Arthur Rowe, he was a PT Instructor, my old Fella told me Arthur Rowe was an Army PT instructor during the war, and he used to regularly take them for PT training.

Len Duqemin had a Paper shop in Northumberland Park Road, just up the road from the ground, not sure if it was a grocery store though.

Not sure about the coal miner though? Not many coal mines in Tottenham.

PS

I believe Ted Ditchburn (your namessake) may also have been a PE Instructor during the war as well, not 100 per cent on that one though. I was only two when that team won the league. I will also take a guess that Ronnie Burgess, the Spurs captain was indeed a miner before joining Spurs, as he comes from South Wales, which had a big mining community around that time.

PS again

I did mean to say Arthur Rowe did not play for Spurs in 1951, but he was the manager.

Yes, Ted Ditchburn was a PT instructor during the WWII.
And Ron Burgess was a coal miner.
And Len did have a paper shop well into his 80's.
There are poeple on here who used to buy stuff from him.
Good on you, Sandy

Ted

Us proper fans know our stuff, I remember well the Duke`s shop in Northumberland Park Road, used to go in there myself as a young man. Never saw him play though, my old chap used to wax lyrical over him, as he did over Ronnie Burgess and Ted. Good ole days eh mate.

You obviously remember Cliff Jones Butcher`s shop in WHL as well.

Sandy,
Ron Burgess was the engine room of that team. great field marshal. Captained Wales too.
Big Ted was renowned for his warm-ups, which were really something when the German paratrooper, Bert Trautmann came to WHL with C-I-T-E-H. The two of them swinging from their crossbars was often as entertaining as the game. I was very small then. My Dad took me to WHL.

My first game at WHL was the match V Everton in October 1958 & we won 10-4

In goal that day was John Hollowbread, who was to go on to be Bill Brown's able deputy in our Double winning side. I never had the pleasure of seeing Ted Ditchburn.

One strange thing about the Spurs team was that Jim Iley ended up managing the team I played in years later!