| Save Whitton Utd 10:44 - Dec 30 with 1503 views | Mookamoo |
Not sure if this has been mentioned.
If you can get past laughing at the 'famous' victory bit, it's an interesting piece on the mighty Whitton Utd who a young Mookamoo played for in his youth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-67766828
Didn't Dozzell snr play for them, or am I mis-remembering? |  | | |  |
| Save Whitton Utd on 10:53 - Dec 30 with 1423 views | ChampionsofInnsbruck |
My old man played for them in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
How did Ruel Fox end up at Norwich rather than Ipswich though! Very good player in his day. |  | | |
| Save Whitton Utd on 10:57 - Dec 30 with 1395 views | PhilTWTD |
| Save Whitton Utd on 10:53 - Dec 30 by ChampionsofInnsbruck |
My old man played for them in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
How did Ruel Fox end up at Norwich rather than Ipswich though! Very good player in his day. |
I asked him a few years back and he said at the time Town didn't really have a youth set-up above a certain age. He was here before he was there. |  | | |
| Save Whitton Utd on 11:42 - Dec 30 with 1246 views | stonojnr |
| Save Whitton Utd on 10:57 - Dec 30 by PhilTWTD |
I asked him a few years back and he said at the time Town didn't really have a youth set-up above a certain age. He was here before he was there. |
Yes I thought it was classic town disorganisation, more than anything else, he joined them in 86, Dozzell had been with us since 83 so youd have thought 84/85 we'd have looked to sign him, but that's when Town were in a bit of a state on and off the pitch and ended up being relegated.
And not the first youth player, probably not last either, to go that way
I suppose the ultimate question is really who out of his contemporaries, ie we picked them instead of him, made it into the full team, but I suspect none did at that time |  | | |
| Save Whitton Utd on 12:01 - Dec 30 with 1190 views | suffolkpoker |
Didn’t they have Richard Wright, scrowcroft and a couple of others all in the same age group? |  |
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| Save Whitton Utd on 12:12 - Dec 30 with 1143 views | Bluespeed225 |
The days when communities and small villages are committed to their sports clubs is sadly a thing of the past. Football, cricket, rugby all suffering as kids are drawn to other pursuits( the net'/netflix/not bothered, seen as un-cool???) Amazed when Roger Osborne was on LAP the other week, said he didn't want to talk about the current state of Westerfield, his old club, but mentioned they could only get 8 players some games. They've since dropped out of the league. Maybe football suffers a kids want it all, the glamour, money, fame, or not at all? Smaller sports, my old one, hockey, seem to still get a good turn out. Places like Debenham always seemed to have vibrant sports clubs. | | | |
| Save Whitton Utd on 12:47 - Dec 30 with 1053 views | Bluefields |
| Save Whitton Utd on 11:42 - Dec 30 by stonojnr |
Yes I thought it was classic town disorganisation, more than anything else, he joined them in 86, Dozzell had been with us since 83 so youd have thought 84/85 we'd have looked to sign him, but that's when Town were in a bit of a state on and off the pitch and ended up being relegated.
And not the first youth player, probably not last either, to go that way
I suppose the ultimate question is really who out of his contemporaries, ie we picked them instead of him, made it into the full team, but I suspect none did at that time |
Town still had an excellent youth set up then | | | |
| Save Whitton Utd on 14:11 - Dec 30 with 892 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Save Whitton Utd on 12:12 - Dec 30 by Bluespeed225 |
The days when communities and small villages are committed to their sports clubs is sadly a thing of the past. Football, cricket, rugby all suffering as kids are drawn to other pursuits( the net'/netflix/not bothered, seen as un-cool???) Amazed when Roger Osborne was on LAP the other week, said he didn't want to talk about the current state of Westerfield, his old club, but mentioned they could only get 8 players some games. They've since dropped out of the league. Maybe football suffers a kids want it all, the glamour, money, fame, or not at all? Smaller sports, my old one, hockey, seem to still get a good turn out. Places like Debenham always seemed to have vibrant sports clubs. |
Ruel is right when he says about the commitment (or lack of) from today’s generation.
It goes right through football down to the lowest Sunday League level.
The team me and a mate founded in 1997 folded this summer as they struggled to get players, and it’s typical of Sunday mornings.
There used to be five divisions in the Licensed Trades League where we played and another 12 or 13 in the Sunday League as recently as the turn of the century.
Now the leagues have had to merge and there’s only five divisions in total.
We used to commit and play pretty much every week. Now players will miss a game for any reason - “can’t play this week, it’s my girlfriend’s Mum’s cat’s birthday”. |  |
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| Save Whitton Utd on 14:12 - Dec 30 with 882 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Save Whitton Utd on 11:42 - Dec 30 by stonojnr |
Yes I thought it was classic town disorganisation, more than anything else, he joined them in 86, Dozzell had been with us since 83 so youd have thought 84/85 we'd have looked to sign him, but that's when Town were in a bit of a state on and off the pitch and ended up being relegated.
And not the first youth player, probably not last either, to go that way
I suppose the ultimate question is really who out of his contemporaries, ie we picked them instead of him, made it into the full team, but I suspect none did at that time |
Louie Donowa was another. | |
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| Save Whitton Utd on 17:13 - Dec 30 with 683 views | brazil1982 |
Needs a very well publicised match at £10 entry, "save Whitton" or something. Play an Ipswich All-Stars.
Non league is in a perilous financial state all over England. [Post edited 30 Dec 2023 17:14]
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