Post by Bushman on Jul 6, 2011 18:04:44 GMT
I received this from Phillip Hayter
Thanks for posting those pix of the 1967 League Cup final, especially the one of the players reading telegrams and messages. The "slightly" older figure on the left, wearing an overcoat, is my father, Reg Hayter who, in 1955, after 20 years of reporting on football and cricket for the press association, founded Hayter's Sports Reporting Agency in Fleet Street and was a firm friend of Alec Stock. The agency is still running, tho' in vastly different form and with no remaining family ties, but over the more than fifty years of its existence Hayters has been a training ground for generations of young sports reporters, and the papers and tv and radio are still packed with those who went through the process. Reg wouldn't have done any of it, though, had the club spotted his true potential when they gave him a trail in 1932, aged 18. He was a bulldozer centre-forward for Ealing Dean and captain of the Marylebone Grammar School 1st XI , but, having invited him for trials, the club asked him to play at right back against the first-team's right winger and he never got near him all afternoon. I started supporting the Rs that 66-67 season; first match Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 QPR 2, was there at Wembley, aged 7, and have been a die hard fan ever since. Fantastic memories. Regards, Peter Hayter.
I would like to thank Peter for contacting me.
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Thanks for posting those pix of the 1967 League Cup final, especially the one of the players reading telegrams and messages. The "slightly" older figure on the left, wearing an overcoat, is my father, Reg Hayter who, in 1955, after 20 years of reporting on football and cricket for the press association, founded Hayter's Sports Reporting Agency in Fleet Street and was a firm friend of Alec Stock. The agency is still running, tho' in vastly different form and with no remaining family ties, but over the more than fifty years of its existence Hayters has been a training ground for generations of young sports reporters, and the papers and tv and radio are still packed with those who went through the process. Reg wouldn't have done any of it, though, had the club spotted his true potential when they gave him a trail in 1932, aged 18. He was a bulldozer centre-forward for Ealing Dean and captain of the Marylebone Grammar School 1st XI , but, having invited him for trials, the club asked him to play at right back against the first-team's right winger and he never got near him all afternoon. I started supporting the Rs that 66-67 season; first match Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 QPR 2, was there at Wembley, aged 7, and have been a die hard fan ever since. Fantastic memories. Regards, Peter Hayter.
I would like to thank Peter for contacting me.
qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=display&thread=20756