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Heroes of the Hall of Fame

3/25/2019

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Six star performers on and off the pitch were inducted into the Cambridge United Hall of Fame during a celebratory dinner in the Abbey Lounge, home of the Supporters' Club, on Thursday, March 21.
 
Players Terry Eades, Steve Fallon and Tom Finney, manager Roy McFarland, commercial powerhouse Bill Cawdery and club historian Andrew Bennett joined their peers in the Hall of Fame, which is managed by 100 Years of Coconuts and recognises outstanding contributions to the story of the football club.
 
Eades, Fallon, Finney and McFarland were chosen by United supporters via online and paper voting, while Cawdery and Bennett were selected for induction by a Coconuts/ Cambridge Fans United electoral college.
 
‘The Cambridge United Hall of Fame recognises the work of people who have changed the history of the club significantly, one way or another,’ former Coconuts chair Pat Morgan told the press.

‘It doesn’t matter whether their contributions were on the pitch, in the dugout, in the boardroom, in the offices or on the terraces.

​'The Cambridge United team is not just 11 players on the park on a Saturday; it’s every character who has ever played a part in the never-ending story that unfolds each week.’
 
Three of the new Hall of Famers were present to receive their mementos of induction: defenders Eades and Fallon and striker/midfielder Finney.

Mark Cawdery received his late father’s memento and Sam Wilson accepted his uncle Andrew Bennett’s award, while diners were able to watch a recording of McFarland’s acceptance speech.
 
The new inductees joined the existing Hall of Famers who have been inducted since the launch of the scheme in 2016: commercial manager Dudley Arliss, player/supporter Russell Crane, players Alan Biley, Dion Dublin, Wilf Mannion, Rodney Slack and Paul Wanless, player/managers John Beck and John Taylor, team managers Bill Leivers and Richard Money, stadium manager Ian Darler and supporter extraordinaire Lil Harrison.
 
Bennett’s induction to the Hall of Fame also served as the inauguration of the annual Andrew Bennett Award, which is intended to recognise extraordinary inputs to the club and its community.
 
It was instituted in memory of the late honorary club historian, archivist, writer and author of the Celery & Coconuts history of Abbey United/Cambridge United, who died in February last year.

Cambridge United director of football Graham Daniels presided over the ceremony, which was also attended by many supporters and ex-players including Andy Beattie, Alan Biley, Derrick Christie, Sam Harris, Peter Hobbs, Keith Lockhart, Rodney Slack and John Taylor.

Visit photographer Simon Lankester's Flickr account to view full coverage of the evening.
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Top, celebrations for Hall of Famers past and present; above, Mark Cawdery (right) receives a memento of his father Bill's induction into the Hall of Fame from Ian Darler. All photos by Simon Lankester; visit Simon's Flickr pages to view coverage of the entire evening
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Cambridge United Supporters' Club chairman Paul Mayes (right) presents Terry Eades with his Hall of Fame memento
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Existing Hall of Famer Alan Biley (left) with new inductee, and former teammate, Tom Finney
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Former centre-back partners Andy Beattie (left) and Steve Fallon renew their friendship
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Roy McFarland receives his memento from former Coconuts chair Pat Morgan on March 12 at McFarland's Derbyshire home
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Sam Wilson (left) receives a memento of induction into the Hall of Fame on behalf of his uncle Andrew Bennett from 100 Years of Coconuts committee member Ian Elliott
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Light-headed

11/30/2018

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An edited version of this article appeared in the Cambridge United match day programme for the game against Crawley Town on 30 March 2018.

If you find sleep difficult to come by, the FA Guide to Floodlighting: Building, Protecting and Enhancing Sustainable Football Facilities is just the thing you need.

A page or two of this puzzling volume, with its talk of lux and lumens, will flood the most wide-awake brain with snooze-inducing endorphins and grant a good eight hours of blissful slumber.

But lighting football pitches has not always been such a baffling science. When Blackburn played Accrington in November 1878, the match was illuminated by two lights attached to 40ft scaffolds.

They provided light equivalent to 6,000 candles – many more than the traditional four – but it was still found necessary to paint the ball white so that players and spectators could see it.

Modern floodlighting systems began to appear in English grounds in the early 1950s, but the need for lights was evident to Abbey United as early as 1949/50: fading light hid the identity of the final scorer from officials and the press in a U’s v Harwich match.
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Fundraising badge for the Abbey Stadium Floodlight Fund – one of the ways Cambridge United Supporters' Club raised money for new floodlights
In 1952/53, player-manager Bill Whittaker blamed a lack of training time for his side’s failings in front of goal. ‘During the dark nights the lads don’t have a chance to get in dribbling or shooting practice …,’ he grumbled. Cambridge United needed floodlights.

But it wasn’t until 1956-57 that serious thought was given to the installation of a proper system. At that time the team trained two nights a week under a solitary pitch-side lamp, and goalkeeper Arthur Morgan later recalled: ‘You couldn’t play a game under it or even do much work with the ball, so most of the time was spent jogging, running and sprinting.’

The project began in earnest in October 1957, when player Len Saward used some of his testimonial fund to buy a primitive set of lights. This was not top of the range stuff – it consisted of four telegraph poles on each side, each equipped with four lamps – but it was a start.

Newmarket Road’s first floodlit match, an East Anglian Cup replay against Great Yarmouth, took place on October 21. ‘The lights on each side are sufficiently powerful to overlap in the middle of the field!’ gushed the Cambridge Daily News.

The lights’ efficiency was soon improved by the addition of reflectors and an increase in power to 1,000 watts in each group. But this wasn’t enough for ambitious United, and directors began inspecting other non-League grounds’ systems. The financial considerations of a modern installation were daunting – besides the basic costs, a new electricity sub-station would be needed – so in December 1961 the Supporters’ Club started raising funds.

Floodlight Fund badges were sold; fans were urged to ‘give until it hurts’ as blanket collections circulated on matchdays; the proceeds of tombola sessions added to the growing pot. By the end of November 1962, supporters were able to hand over £4,000 to enable an order to be placed.

And so the magnificent structures we see today came to be erected during the long, bitterly cold winter of 1962/63, after players had joined supporters in digging the foundations.
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On 11 March 1963, when the four steel pylons with 24 lamps each were at last soaring 37 metres into the Barnwell sky, when £13,500 had been spent and when the weather relented, the U’s ran out to face Bedford Town under the Abbey Stadium’s crowning glory.
 
Cheerio
Harry
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United director Matt Wynn (left) inspects a cheque for £4,000 – the first instalment of moneys raised towards the £13,500 cost of the new floodlights – handed over by Supporters' Club chairman Wesley Nunn
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Above and below, work on the new floodlight pylons took place throughout the long, harsh winter of 1962/63. Photos: Len Day
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The Cambridge Daily News reports on progress on 22 December 1962
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Left to right: News cartoonist on City-U's rivalry; the first match under the new lights; the News announces the switch-on
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Moore, please

11/19/2018

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An edited version of this article appeared in the Cambridge United matchday programme for the game against Notts County on 20 February 2018.

Half-close your eyes and squint at the fuzzy, poor-quality photograph on the right. There are some unforgettable faces there; award yourself five points if you can name them all.

Clue: you’re looking for the likes of John ‘Shaggy’ Taylor, Tom Youngs, Alex Russell, ‘Dancing’ Shaun Marshall, Paul ‘Captain Fantastic’ Wanless, Andy Duncan and Martin Butler.
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Above: Cambridge United players and manager with the 1997/98 PFA Bobby Moore Fair Play Trophy; below the trophy, which is on display in Coconuts' mini-museum, The Story of the U's
There are several others; some of them achieved great things at United and elsewhere. It’s a talented group of young men and also, it appears, a happy bunch.

Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve obviously passed a fun half-hour in creating an imaginative backdrop and they’re grouped round one of England’s most respected players and managers of recent decades – a man who a few months later would lead them to promotion to Division Three.
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And Roy McFarland (for it is he) is showing off a rather handsome pot earned by the lads the previous season – the PFA Bobby Moore Fair Play Trophy for 1997/98 – topped by a black 'n' amber Father Christmas titfer.

Roy Mac, although proud of his charges for achieving the best disciplinary record in the Premier and Football Leagues, was at pains to stress the team’s fighting qualities when he spoke to reporters. ‘We are not a soft touch and not a lightweight side,’ he insisted.

It’s true that United, with battlers like Wanless, Duncan and Ian Ashbee in the side, could never have been accused of being softies. And the hefty presence up front of Trevor Benjamin ruled out any ‘lightweight’ jibes.
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Indeed, the U’s claimed the award despite seeing two players – Messrs Wanless and Butler – make early use of the showers in one game. Then again, that match was the infamous FA Cup second round replay at Stevenage Borough in December 1997, when United were eliminated thanks to one of the most ridiculously inept refereeing performances ever seen in the Home Counties.

You can inspect the Fair Play Trophy at close quarters when you visit The Story of the U’s, our little museum in the Supporters’ Club. Write to 100yearsofcoconuts@gmail.com to arrange that visit.  (To answer the disappointed punter who wrote words to the effect of ‘is that it?’ in the visitors’ book: yes, we know it’s small, but it’s a start.)
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Our email enquiry to the PFA about the current status of the award met with a response from no less a personage than the union’s chief executive. ‘Yes,’ wrote Golden Gordon, ‘the award still exists, with prize money of £15,000 for community work and players and management.’

Established in 1988, it was of course named after a man who exemplified the spirit of fair play and was also one of the game’s greatest practitioners. Bobby Moore was, according to Franz Beckenbauer, ‘the best defender in the history of the game’, and Jock Stein observed: ‘There should be a law against him. He knows what's happening 20 minutes before everyone else.’

United’s connections with Moore don’t end with the capture of the 1997/98 trophy. As Andrew Bennett revealed in Risen from the Dust, the U’s provided the opposition to an all-star XI in Chelmsford manager Peter Harburn’s testimonial on 10 May 1966, and Moore and Geoff Hurst were among the guest players.

Hurst nabbed three goals in a 4-3 win for the stars. I wonder when his next hat-trick was.

Cheerio
Harry
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Bishop's place in history

5/24/2018

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We're obliged to the generous Rod Bishop, who has donated the framed display on the right to The Story of the U's, the Coconuts mini-museum in Cambridge United Supporters' Club's Abbey Lounge home.

It represents an important piece of U's history, for it contains what is believed to be the first full-time professional contract offered to a United player – at a weekly wage of £3 plus another £1 'when playing for the first team'.

Signed by full back Bob Bishop (Rod's father) and club secretary Fred Ward, and witnessed by player-manager Bill Whittaker, it dates to 16 August 1952, when ambitious United were playing in the Eastern Counties League but planning for bigger things.

The display also features Bob among the team that took on Bradford Park Avenue in the FA Cup second round on 12 December 1953, and the biography that appeared in Brian Attmore and Graham Nurse's '100 Greats' book published in 2002.

Bob, an athletic, versatile and influential player who was equally comfortable at right or left back, played 202 games for the U's between 1947 and 1956, when he hung up his boots to take on the role of trainer. He got forward occasionally, as his tally of six goals shows.

His United career spanned three eras: he joined when the club was competing in the United Counties League and stepped back from the trainer role when it was playing in the Southern League, in 1959.
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It's a splendid addition to The Story of the U's for which we thank Rod – a long-term United follower and no mean sportsman himself in his day, although he showed a puzzling preference for the oval ball.

​To arrange a visit to The Story of the U's, email 100yearsofcoconuts@gmail.com.
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The gang's all here

6/27/2017

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That's not strictly true … not every single one of Cambridge United Former Players' Association's 133 members was in the Supporters' Club last night, but the occasion was all about quality, not quantity.

And what quality! First-time attendee Alan Biley was in sparkling form, recalling some of the many goals he cracked in at the nearby Corona End. A good number of them were supplied by midfield craftsman Graham 'Willie' Watson. 'He's the man who made me, as he never tires of telling me!' cried Alan gleefully as Willie embarked on another scandalous reminiscence.

It was also good to see CUFPA get-together debutant Brian Grant, stalwart left back of the Bill Leivers era. 'I was Brian Clough's first ever signing,' he recalled of his Hartlepool days. He delighted in swapping memories with the likes of CUFPA chairman Rodney Slack, 1950s goalkeeper Derek Haylock and Tony Willson of roughly the same era.

​For Alan and Brian, the evening presented a first chance to sign the visitors' book at The Story of the U's, Coconuts' mini-museum recounting the history of Abbey/Cambridge United. The exhibits provoked another round of reminiscing and storytelling, as they're designed to do.
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Nice to see you - CUFPA Gathering

10/25/2016

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Our photographer had his box Brownie handy when U's players of yesteryear gathered for a natter at the latest Cambridge United Former Players' Association get-together on Monday night.

Names familiar to fans from the 1950s onwards had a little drink and a chat, and renewed old friendships, at Cambridge United Supporters' Club, whose clubhouse has been rebranded as the Abbey Lounge. Check out some of the attendees in these pictures – and if you know of any ex-U who would like to become a member, drop us a line at 100yearsofcoconuts@gmail.com.

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Graham 'Willie' Watson and Derrick Christie, teammates at the Abbey Stadium in the 1970s.
Graham 'Willie' Watson and Derrick Christie, teammates at the Abbey Stadium in the 1970s.
Graham Felton and Derrick Christie, both flying wingers in their day, renew a friendship forged at Northampton Town.
Graham Felton and Derrick Christie, both flying wingers in their day, renew a friendship forged at Northampton Town.
1950s star Len Saward and mid-1960s winger Graham Felton.
1950s star Len Saward and mid-1960s winger Graham Felton.
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100 Years of Coconuts committee member Andrew Bennett chats with CUFPA chairman Rodney Slack. Andrew's book Newmarket Road Roughs is published this week.
Tony Willson, Vic Phillips and Derek Haylock talk about games and players of the 50s and 60s.Tony Willson, Vic Phillips and Derek Haylock talk about games and players of the 50s and 60s.

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All together, now

7/4/2016

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Some of the inaugural members of the Cambridge United Former Players' Association at the launch event in the Supporters' Club on Monday, July 4. From left: Tom Finney, Graham Daniels, Vic Phillips, Rodney Slack, Peter Bowstead, Peter Hobbs, Tom Youngs, Dan Gleeson, Steve Fallon, Peter Phillips, Jim White.
The first three inductees of the newly inaugurated Cambridge United Hall of Fame were honoured tonight by 100 Years of Coconuts.

At an award ceremony in the Supporters’ Club, presided over by United chairman Dave Doggett and fans’ elected director Dave Matthew-Jones, Russell Crane, Lil Harrison and Rodney Slack were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The ceremony was watched by members of the Cambridge United Former Players’ Association, also launched tonight by Coconuts.

The Former Players’ Association has been set up with the aim of bringing the extended U’s family closer together, while the Hall of Fame recognises outstanding contributions to the development and history of the football club. Like Coconuts’ recently opened mini-museum, The Story of the U’s, the two initiatives have been made possible by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Hall of Fame inductees were chosen by Coconuts and CFU trust board members. In future, Coconuts will look to involve the entire U’s supporter base in the voting process.

At first the Hall of Fame will take the form of a website, but Coconuts and Cambridge United are looking at the possibility of a physical display within the Abbey Stadium.

‘We were very clear when we set out to launch the Hall of Fame that we didn’t just want to honour players,’ said Coconuts chair Pat Morgan.

‘Fans are just as important to any football club as players, directors, financial supporters and staff, and the first three inductees are a good indication of that.

‘Russell Crane was just as much a U’s supporter as he was a player. Lil Harrison was involved with the club before the first world war and was still going to games in the 1990s. Rodney Slack has the U’s in his blood despite being born near the other place [Peterborough].

‘As Russell told us, the club is a family affair, and you couldn’t find three more committed family members than these first inductees.’

Russell Crane (1926-2016) grew up in a U’s-mad household in Ditton Walk, opposite the United ground. He broke many club records during an 18-year career with Abbey and Cambridge United, and was still attending games as a guest of Coconuts as recently as last year.

Rodney Slack was born in 1940. Voted player of the year three times in his first five years as a U’s player, he was idolised by the fans and continues to live within a stone’s throw of the Abbey. He is a 100 Years of Coconuts committee member and chairman of the Former Players’ Association.

Lil Harrison (1904-1996) first saw Abbey United play at the age of ten. She went on to become a stalwart of the Supporters’ Club committee, raised countless thousands of pounds as the club rose through the leagues and came to exemplify the family spirit of the club.

The inaugural membership of the Cambridge United Former Players’ Association is around 100 – a number that is expected to grow fast in the coming months.

They range from ‘Tickle’ Sanderson, who first played for Abbey United in 1939, to more recent players like Liam Hughes and Coconuts patron Luke Chadwick.
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CUFPA, chaired by Rodney Slack, is setting up a website and will keep members in touch with a quarterly newsletter. Occasional small-scale social events will be arranged and members are encouraged to contact each other via a password-protected members’ area on the website.
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​Jack Morgan, 1924-2016

5/5/2016

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The Cambridge United family has lost a much-loved and esteemed member with the death of Jack Morgan at the age of 92 on April 26.

Renowned as the man who first played ‘I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts’ over the tannoy, Jack belonged to a diehard U’s family. His mother and father worked tirelessly for the club and Supporters’ Club and his brother Arthur played 110 first-team games between 1947 and 1955; usually but not always in goal.

Jack was born in the Hills Road area of Cambridge in 1924. His family subsequently moved to Ditton Fields; a hotbed of United support. He and his three brothers were soon enthusiastic supporters and later, like his parents, he served on the Supporters’ Club committee.

As Abbey United progressed towards professionalism and the Football League, it was the norm for supporters to help out with all manner of jobs. Jack remembered scrubbing floors and marking the pitch, but a highlight of his work was the playing of records, perched in the little box that still adorns the north-west corner of the ground, through the tannoy on match days.

Supporter Robin Mansfield recalled Jack taking him to his first U’s game in 1955. ‘It was he who first decided to play that record [Coconuts] whenever we had a win,’ he said. ‘I have asked Jack why he chose that particular record. His reply was: “It was purely accidental. I had a pile of records in front of me and thought this one would do!” He just carried on playing it and the tradition continues to the present day.’

Jack, who turned out at right half for United Reserves ‘when they were short’, worked at Marshall’s during World War II. He later became a rent collector for
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Cambridge City Council before being promoted to housing manager, and then worked for the Rent Officers’ Association throughout the East of England.
He and his wife Audrey had one daughter, Jane, and a granddaughter, Sophie.

The funeral service will be held on Cambridge City Crematorium’s East Chapel on Thursday, May 12 at 12.15pm. Jack’s family has requested that no black be worn.
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Jack talked about his life when Radio Coconuts visited his Chesterton home last year. The recording can be found at 100yearsofcoconuts.co.uk/radio-coconuts.html. Robin Mansfield’s story is at 100yearsofcoconuts.co.uk/robin-mansfield.html.
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The Touchline Terror signs in

3/24/2016

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What an enormous pleasure to welcome 1950s player Teddy Bowd to The Story of the U's, the Coconuts mini-museum, today.

Teddy, a speedy outside right who was known as the Touchline Terror in his heyday, made his way to the display, which is sited in Cambridge United Supporters' Club. with daughter Jenny Free and son-in-law Graham Free.

They were welcomed by Coconuts volunteer and committee member Rodney Slack, whose United career started a decade after Teddy's debut. The two ex-pros have been firm friends for many a year.
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Above left, fellow ex-United player Rodney Slack (left) listens as Teddy Bowd (second right) relates a story from his playing days. Also pictured, from left: Coconuts chair Pat Morgan, Teddy's son-in-law Graham Free and daughter Jenny Free.
Teddy signed for the U's in 1952 and went on to make 98 first-team appearances and score 13 goals.
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