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by anthony.brown
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: That Losing Habit
Replies: 3
Views: 792

Re: That Losing Habit

In 1950/51 we lost 24 of 30 matches, with a longest run of consecutive League defeats being 13. Our present team have a great chance to avoid matching that record run?
by anthony.brown
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: Prediction - BROMSGROVE
Replies: 2
Views: 493

Re: Prediction - BROMSGROVE

Perhaps our team should wear Norwegian Blue shirts for the rest of this now dead season?
by anthony.brown
Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Talk Anything Else
Topic: Dick Walker: Angling Superstar.
Replies: 1
Views: 462

Dick Walker: Angling Superstar.

A fine display at North Herts Museum in Brand Street of the life and works of Dick Walker (who was born in Fishponds Road).
The 'Ranji' Adams (Hitchin FC Hall of Famer) display is also still on show there and is well worth a visit.
by anthony.brown
Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: Daniel idiakhoa
Replies: 3
Views: 622

Re: Daniel idiakhoa

Both Daniel and Arnold scored for AFC yesterday. Anyone needing a footie fix when they can't get to a Hitchin match would find a visit to Creasey Park a good choice. Goals there are scored at both ends.......................... Such a shame that Daniel will be remembered by the fans for letting the ...
by anthony.brown
Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: Hitchin performances
Replies: 4
Views: 724

Re: Hitchin performances

Successive flat team performances, Snooker Loopy (yuk!) on the tannoy, our web site history still showing the howler that Francis Shillitoe lived at Foxholes. We are now attending matches expecting the team to be gallant losers. We want to see gallant possible winners; a squad capable of picking up ...
by anthony.brown
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:33 am
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: Daniel idiakhoa
Replies: 3
Views: 622

Re: Daniel idiakhoa

Linking up with Arnold (who is scoring regularly) as AFC make a late run for the play-offs.
by anthony.brown
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:36 am
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: That Losing Habit
Replies: 3
Views: 792

That Losing Habit

An unprecedented sequence of defeats means we no longer have any chance of reaching the play-offs, and opposing teams are chomping at the bit in their eagerness to add to our woes. There is a real chance of relegation unless the squad pull up their socks and battle to the magic 48 points. Even in ou...
by anthony.brown
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: Talk Hitchin Town FC
Topic: Treacle's Sticky End
Replies: 0
Views: 874

Treacle's Sticky End

Hall of famer Bill Westwood suffered a painful end to his long Hitchin Town FC career. From the Hertfordshire Express of Saturday 1st September 1951 Bill Westwood's Playing Days Over? Leg Broken at Wealdstone W.Westwood's long playing career with Hitchin almost certainly came to an end under unhappy...
by anthony.brown
Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Talk Football General
Topic: Harry Raybould (Waders Reserves)
Replies: 0
Views: 2718

Harry Raybould (Waders Reserves)

A query on our social media showing a picture of Biggleswade Town's team of about 1951 surprised me, as perhaps the only HTFC connections in the picture were of our ex trainer George Oldham, and Canary's legend Ken Lawrence. Whatever, the query related to Wader's reserve player Harry Raybould, whose...
by anthony.brown
Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:15 am
Forum: Talk Anything Else
Topic: Cycle Speedway in Hitchin
Replies: 0
Views: 3356

Cycle Speedway in Hitchin

FLYERS COMPLETE DOUBLE By winning their return match with Hitchin on Sunday, Ruskin Flyers completed the double. They beat Hitchin Aces, who were at home, by 48-47. South London Observer Thursday 16th November 1950 CYCLE SPEEDWAY Some 300 spectators saw Hitchin Aces first meeting at the Bury Mead tr...