{"id":64348,"date":"2010-04-17T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64348"},"modified":"2025-05-04T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T22:23:18","slug":"the-oldest-football-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64348","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest football Team."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1728\" height=\"1116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64347\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5501355013550135;width:743px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1.jpg 1728w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1-465x300.jpg 465w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1-1536x992.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1-150x97.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/oldest-football-team-lingdale-2nd-December-1936-a-1-400x258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1728px) 100vw, 1728px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Y<strong>es the Lingdale lads again taken on the 2nd December 1936.&nbsp; The Archive asked: \u201dCan you name some of them please?\u201d Dorothy Simms tells us: \u201dI have actually got the paper; Weekly Illustrated 12 December 1936. Lingdale played Canning Town, East End, London. The team combined ages were 1,000 years including 3 reserves: Skipper Harry Eaton aged 88, his wife Elizabeth Ellen 64, Foxy George 66 [the handsome one], Old Liz Saunders goalkeeper 84. That\u2019s all I have but there are several photographs. Rules: no running, no charging. A quick walk and neat side step are what is needed. First ever match was on Jubilee Day. I hope you find this interesting. I have been in touch with someone about this match but never had a reply. They played 55 minutes;&nbsp;two halves of 20 minutes with 1\/4 hour interval for a pint and pipe!\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Michael Grange advises: \u201dMy great grandfather was in this team (George \u2018Foxy\u2019 Grange), after the game each player was given a clay pipe in the shape of a football boot.\u201d<br>Photograph courtesy of Derick Pearson and many thanks to Dorothy Simms and Michael Grange&nbsp;for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes the Lingdale lads again taken on the 2nd December 1936.&nbsp; The Archive asked: \u201dCan you name some of them please?\u201d Dorothy Simms tells us: \u201dI have actually got the paper; Weekly Illustrated 12 December 1936. Lingdale played Canning Town, East End, London. The team combined ages were 1,000 years including 3 reserves: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boosbeck-lingdale-people","category-football","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79217,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64348\/revisions\/79217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}