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Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: Dazzza on Thursday, May 15, 2008, 18:20:26 This is a bit of a new one on me but there's a nice little article mentioning Charles Reep, a Royal Air Force wing commander who watched Town during WW2 and is considered football's first stato.
Any relation Reg? Quote Charles Reep, a Royal Air Force wing commander during World War 2, influenced English soccer after he began compiling statistics while watching Swindon Town in the 1950s. He found that goals were more likely after three or fewer consecutive passes. It influenced the style of Wolves coach Stan Cullis, who led the team to three league titles and two FA Cups from 1954 to 1960 Also mentioned that Man City have hired SIX analysts to look at player stats, which seems ridiculous and is a bit of a sad reminder about the gulf in money in the Premier league. http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=565&fArticleId=4402639 Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, May 15, 2008, 18:28:15 Stats are ace. I wonder if you collected enough of them you could come up with some mad football equations and create a manager AI.
Sort of what Football Manager games do, but backwards. Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: RobertT on Thursday, May 15, 2008, 20:05:36 Quote from: "flammableBen" Stats are ace. I wonder if you collected enough of them you could come up with some mad football equations and create a manager AI. Sort of what Football Manager games do, but backwards. Howard Wilkinson and Sam Allardyce have already been created. Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: leefer on Thursday, May 15, 2008, 21:31:11 Well wing commander Reep didnt do much flying then,i thaught the County Ground was a prisoner of war camp during WW2!!....although i think a few matches were played,REG SMEATON will probably know.
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, May 15, 2008, 22:11:02 I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war. Pretty sure it wasn't a POW camp!
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: pauld on Friday, May 16, 2008, 01:04:15 Quote from: "flammableBen" I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war. We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal" Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: flammableBen on Friday, May 16, 2008, 01:27:12 yeah, only bits of them though. The rest of the stuff was put on the moon during Queen Victoria's reign.
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: neville w on Friday, May 16, 2008, 07:29:20 Quote from: "pauld" Quote from: "flammableBen" I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war. We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal" Well, they'd filled Anfield with the Spion Kop from South Africa(I think) and they'd already got a whole bloody battle into Chelsea Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: pauld on Friday, May 16, 2008, 07:38:47 Quote from: "neville w" Quote from: "pauld" Quote from: "flammableBen" I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war. We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal" Well, they'd filled Anfield with the Spion Kop from South Africa(I think) It was indeed, from the Boer War, one of the most tedious conflicts in history, fought against outsized pigs Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Friday, May 16, 2008, 07:46:51 I think it was a Pow camp Ben
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: janaage on Friday, May 16, 2008, 08:09:07 It was a POW camp, Italians were held at the CG "during the war" in an Uncle Albert style.
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: flammableBen on Friday, May 16, 2008, 10:59:10 Madness I didn't know that. I want some historical documentation based evidence.
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: jayohaitchenn on Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:01:53 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_Town_F.C.
There's a little about it in the heading under Stadium. Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: flammableBen on Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:05:22 Ace. Dick Mattick didn't mention that in his ace book. He's rubbish.
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: neville w on Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:44:17 Quote from: "pauld" Quote from: "neville w" Quote from: "pauld" Quote from: "flammableBen" I think the ground was used as storage for part of the second world war. We stored the Second World War here? Which bit? The Battle of the Bulge, Siege of Stalingrad? "El Alamein? Oooh, shove Iwo Jima over a bit and stick it behind the goal" Well, they'd filled Anfield with the Spion Kop from South Africa(I think) It was indeed, from the Boer War, one of the most tedious conflicts in history, fought against outsized pigs He's pinching your line janaage ! Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: leefer on Friday, May 16, 2008, 18:24:55 This is fact....afew of the Italians stayed after the war and settled in Swindon mainly round the Cambria Bridge area near the Grapes pub....and alot of Italians still live round that area.
Title: Town to blame for the long bawl? Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, May 16, 2008, 18:44:46 Quote from: "leefer" This is fact....afew of the Italians stayed after the war and settled in Swindon mainly round the Cambria Bridge area near the Grapes pub....and alot of Italians still live round that area. Tis true fB....quite a lot went up County Road a bit and settled around Elmina Road way. I used to kick about on the CG extension with Franco Sperti and Paul Fiocca , both useful players, both made 1 appearance for the Town...I wouldn't have minded that. Best of the bunch was Enzo Mascia, who althoough prominent as a youth player was a bit older than Fiocca and Sperti, so was around when we were strong and never got a game. |