The Old Five (2 Viewers)

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Yes was still going strong in the 60s and into the 70s. Whenever we scored 4 goals,the shouts would go up. Either we want the old 5 . Or give us the old 5.
Died out when we were in the prem as we never scored kin 5

 

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[Hobo]

Yes was still going strong in the 60s and into the 70s. Whenever we scored 4 goals,the shouts would go up. Either we want the old 5 . Or give us the old 5.
Died out when we were in the prem as we never scored kin 5

My memory might be playing tricks, but I think it was sometimes chanted by the fans even in a tight game. A sort of war cry of encouragement. It seemed quite regular from the terraces.

 

[rob9872]

I don't want to doubt what some of the old posters (who were actually there and I wasn't) have said, but my understanding of it from my dad and grandad was nothing to do with goals. It was I was led to believe, to be our front 5 (hence the original question 'how did the ol'5 get on today'?) - centre forward, inside left, outside left, inside right and outside right.

 

[The Great Eastern]

Yes was still going strong in the 60s and into the 70s. Whenever we scored 4 goals,the shouts would go up. Either we want the old 5 . Or give us the old 5.
Died out when we were in the prem as we never scored kin 5

Somebody can check it out but our 1st season in the top tier (1967/8) included a win against Burnley where we scored 5. Maybe a Bobby Gould hat trick ?

 

[ovduk78]

Somebody can check it out but our 1st season in the top tier (1967/8) included a win against Burnley where we scored 5. Maybe a Bobby Gould hat trick ?

 

[The Great Eastern]

Yes was still going strong in the 60s and into the 70s. Whenever we scored 4 goals,the shouts would go up. Either we want the old 5 . Or give us the old 5.
Died out when we were in

Cant remember what I had for dinner last night but can dredge up memories of a game nearly 60 years ago....

 

[Mercian In Anglia]

Back in the mid 1930's we had an excellent team run by manager Harry Storer and it is said but for World War 2 would have got into the then first division. We had free scoring forwards at the time and regularly put 5 passed apponents. My old man told me we had a superb team in those days, fucking prat that Hitler bloke !!

My Grandad always said the best player he saw in a city shirt was George Lowrie, albeit I don't think he ever saw any of Darius Henderson's performances.

Just looked Lowrie up, he made 1 appearance before WW2 aged 19 (City managing back to back 4th place finishes, no playoffs then and missed out by a point one year). He then scored 47 in two old Div 2 seasons after the war, and got full Wales caps before being sold to Newcastle for £18k- for context, a month earlier they also bought Len Shackleton for £20.5k, a British record fee.

It all went a bit Bellamy after that and in ten years we'd sunk so far they had to invent Div 4. Managed to scrape out of there after one year, and then it was enter The Chin.

What might have been, and some interesting parallels with more recent times. Yet to find any Pathe News footage of Alf Wood and George Mason clowning about in training though.

 

[wingy]

My Grandad always said the best player he saw in a city shirt was George Lowrie, albeit I don't think he ever saw any of Darius Henderson's performances.

Just looked Lowrie up, he made 1 appearance before WW2 aged 19 (City managing back to back 4th place finishes, no playoffs then and missed out by a point one year). He then scored 47 in two old Div 2 seasons after the war, and got full Wales caps before being sold to Newcastle for £18k- for context, a month earlier they also bought Len Shackleton for £20.5k, a British record fee.

It all went a bit Bellamy after that and in ten years we'd sunk so far they had to invent Div 4. Managed to scrape out of there after one year, and then it was enter The Chin.

What might have been, and some interesting parallels with more recent times. Yet to find any Pathe News footage of Alf Wood and George Mason clowning about in training though.

So we've always mugged off the Geordie's, some feat that!

 

[Hobo]

George Curtis has club status and rightly so. Before my time
but people older than me ,who knew there stuff, raved about George Mason. Manchester United wanted to buy him so I guess he wasnt shoddy.