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Nice little video, how on earth players managed 40+ matches a season with no subs with all the waist-high lunging at each other in clumpy boots and heading that near medicine ball with their woolly socks on I shall never know.

 

Anyone got the link to Saints training from the National Film archive?

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Nice little video, how on earth players managed 40+ matches a season with no subs with all the waist-high lunging at each other in clumpy boots and heading that near medicine ball with their woolly socks on I shall never know.

 

Anyone got the link to Saints training from the National Film archive?

 

Here it is: (Saints in Training)

 

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=28402

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I notice Duncan has already added it to his favourites, I'm sure historians could possibly even pinpoint the date of Blackburn's match

 

I imagine that travelling from Blackburn to Southampton in the late 1940's was quite a journey too

 

But, on the train, probably less stressful than driving from Eastbourne to St Mary's - will there be another smash on the Lewes by-pass, will my son be ready, will I get held up where the planners have put a major retail park north of the A27 when everyone who uses it lives to the south, will the Chchester by-pass be solid, will my favourite parking place be available?

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I notice Duncan has already added it to his favourites, I'm sure historians could possibly even pinpoint the date of Blackburn's match

 

I imagine that travelling from Blackburn to Southampton in the late 1940's was quite a journey too

Why? We had a decent rail service in this country before the 1960s. It would be quite easy to find the date of this match, there is a web site that gives dates and results of all fixtures.

I had a cousin who lived in the East End, went to see Blackpool play West Ham on Good Friday in 1935 or 36 (haven't got exact year to hand) and died of a heart attack at the match. I found the date of the game online, and happened to look at the fixtures for the following day and found that West Ham played again against Saints (unfortunately we lost). Players and supporters of today don't know they are born, but in fact it was relatively easy to travel to matches given the railway network of the time, and football specials - probably took less time than it would these days by car

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Nice little video, how on earth players managed 40+ matches a season with no subs with all the waist-high lunging at each other in clumpy boots and heading that near medicine ball with their woolly socks on I shall never know.

 

It's because they are real men, unlike the majority of today's pampered professionals.

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They wouldn't stand a chance against modern professionals. They would look like slow, amateurish, chuggers.

 

If today's players were kicking a medicine ball with hobnail boots, they'd look like slow amateurish sluggers. If today's centre halves had to head those bloody things they'd spend the rest of the game having treatment.

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Those were the days when the balls were made of heavy metal, and if you headed the part of the ball where the laces were, you could give yourself a nasty injury just heading a wet ball. Oh, yeah, and they wore deep sea diver boots with land mines on the soles too. It was a different game in those days for sure.

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