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Post by charlestheoptimist on Apr 3, 2020 18:30:48 GMT
I seem to remember a story around the press in the seventies/eighties that Tom Fagan was arranging an away trip to China for Rovers. Could have just been a PR stunt to get the club some publicity with reporters in the national press or an April fool if it came out on the 1st of that month !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 9:37:26 GMT
this is really interesting. sorry i took so long to come back on it. so we have a Chinese team who don't seem to exist, it can't be their national team if rideout was playing.
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Post by rab on Apr 17, 2020 10:34:48 GMT
I think we can safely assume that it was Qianwei Huandao who Rovers played, and that this somehow got garbled into Quandoa Huanwei by the match reporter, Mandarin translators being thin on the ground at Cliftonhill at the time.
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vs China?
Apr 18, 2020 8:21:26 GMT
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Post by sam on Apr 18, 2020 8:21:26 GMT
Heard the chat on Off the Ball, and meant to raise the issue on here. Think the ref (what was his name) said that the China team was on its way to an international tournament. Think he said youth tournament, David/Roy were they a young looking side? Think that there is a rule that league sides can not play a national side, so China will have played under another name to get by that. Rovers played Cyprus midweek when their national team came over to play Scotland on the Saturday, again the team had a club type name, to get by that rule. Boys from the Brig, page 288. Rovers won 2-0. Maybe, we should play national sides more often. Anorthosis Famagusta, Brian ?? Was that not the first match under the then `new` floodlights...not the ones we have now Grant, I seem to remember Stanley Mathews was at Cliftonhill for this game as he had something to do with the Cypriot team...... or am I way of track with this
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Post by Rovergrant on Apr 19, 2020 7:32:43 GMT
Not that game, Sam, the game that Stanley Matthews attended was a league match on a Saturday. SM was if I remember correctly was managing Port Vale when hecame to watch Rovers and according to his bio he was manager of Port Vale 1967-68 so that roughly dates the game. I remember your dad making the announcement over the tannoy and everyone clapping. Could it be he was up to watch Tony Green who was with Rovers until May 1967 when he signed for Blackpool. No mention of any Cyprot connection, Sam, although he did a lot of coaching work in the black townships in apartheid era South Africa
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Post by Rovergrant on Apr 19, 2020 7:41:56 GMT
Sam, I found this posting from 2019,,,,,,
Jan 7, 2019 at 2:01pm QuotePost OptionsPost by Rovergrant on Jan 7, 2019 at 2:01pm Back in the late 60s a Port Vale manager watched a Rovers match at Cliftonhill.....Sir Stanley Matthews......I remember John Gemmell (Sam`s dad) making an announcement over the tannoy
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