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John Beck Turns 67 Today
Made his QPR Debut - December 26 1972 vs Orient at Loftus Road (QPR won 3-1 - I was there! I remember it, cos Parkes was injured during the match - in the days of no goalie subs)
That was the season when the QPR sub was often John Beck or another youngster, John Delve. Beck was the creative player; Delve the defensive player. And then Beck became the understudy to Gerry Francis..
VIA BUSHMAN
1974-75 Season.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beck_(footballer)
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1972–1976 Queens Park Rangers 40 (1)
1976–1978 Coventry City 69 (6)
1978–1982 Fulham 114 (12)
1982–1986 Bournemouth 137 (13)
1986–1989 Cambridge United 112 (11)
Total 472 (43)
Teams managed
1990–1992 Cambridge United
1992–1994 Preston North End
1995–1997 Lincoln City
2001 Cambridge United
2010 Histon
2012 Kettering Town
www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=38279
Kettering on brink of extinction as club fail to turn out for fixture for second time in a week
By John Edwards
PUBLISHED: 16:30 EST, 12 October 2012 | UPDATED: 17:25 EST, 12 October 2012
One of non-League football’s best-known clubs are on the brink of extinction after failing to fulfil a fixture for the second time in less than a week.
Debt-ridden Kettering Town were unable to raise a team for their midweek game at Leamington Spa and called off Saturday’s home meeting with Bideford because there is no electricity at their Nene Park ground.
Pioneers of shirt sponsorship in the 1970s, they are facing liquidation, unless agreement can be reached with at least one of two would-be buyers in the next few days.
Chief scout Alan Doyle was thrust into the manager’s job after former Cambridge United boss John Beck was escorted from the ground, shortly before the start of the recent 3-0 FA Trophy defeat by Concord Rangers.
He has inherited a squad decimated by player departures, due to unpaid wages, and a stadium without electricity, after suppliers EDF cut them off earlier this week due to unpaid bills.
Kettering, who defied FA rules by sporting a sponsor’s logo across their shirts in 1976, lost their last game 7-0 at home to Bashley, after taking the field with 10 men.
Doyle thought he had 11, after promising to pay reserve keeper Ben Gathercole out of his own pocket to play left-back, but Gathercole failed to turn up.
Hamstrung by an embargo on new signings, Doyle summed up the despair at a club with a 140-year history by saying: ‘It’s very much in the lap of the gods what happens next.
'I know there are a lot of people who believe the club should be put out of its misery, but there is no way back at all, once that happens.
‘We were down to five or six players for the Bideford game, so there was little option. Still, at least I only had half-a-dozen calls to make to tell the lads it was off..’
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2216874/Kettering-Town-FC-brink-extinction.html#ixzz2UHuHKvEq
John Beck Turns 67 Today
Made his QPR Debut - December 26 1972 vs Orient at Loftus Road (QPR won 3-1 - I was there! I remember it, cos Parkes was injured during the match - in the days of no goalie subs)
That was the season when the QPR sub was often John Beck or another youngster, John Delve. Beck was the creative player; Delve the defensive player. And then Beck became the understudy to Gerry Francis..
VIA BUSHMAN
1974-75 Season.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beck_(footballer)
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1972–1976 Queens Park Rangers 40 (1)
1976–1978 Coventry City 69 (6)
1978–1982 Fulham 114 (12)
1982–1986 Bournemouth 137 (13)
1986–1989 Cambridge United 112 (11)
Total 472 (43)
Teams managed
1990–1992 Cambridge United
1992–1994 Preston North End
1995–1997 Lincoln City
2001 Cambridge United
2010 Histon
2012 Kettering Town
www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=38279
Kettering on brink of extinction as club fail to turn out for fixture for second time in a week
By John Edwards
PUBLISHED: 16:30 EST, 12 October 2012 | UPDATED: 17:25 EST, 12 October 2012
One of non-League football’s best-known clubs are on the brink of extinction after failing to fulfil a fixture for the second time in less than a week.
Debt-ridden Kettering Town were unable to raise a team for their midweek game at Leamington Spa and called off Saturday’s home meeting with Bideford because there is no electricity at their Nene Park ground.
Pioneers of shirt sponsorship in the 1970s, they are facing liquidation, unless agreement can be reached with at least one of two would-be buyers in the next few days.
Chief scout Alan Doyle was thrust into the manager’s job after former Cambridge United boss John Beck was escorted from the ground, shortly before the start of the recent 3-0 FA Trophy defeat by Concord Rangers.
He has inherited a squad decimated by player departures, due to unpaid wages, and a stadium without electricity, after suppliers EDF cut them off earlier this week due to unpaid bills.
Kettering, who defied FA rules by sporting a sponsor’s logo across their shirts in 1976, lost their last game 7-0 at home to Bashley, after taking the field with 10 men.
Doyle thought he had 11, after promising to pay reserve keeper Ben Gathercole out of his own pocket to play left-back, but Gathercole failed to turn up.
Hamstrung by an embargo on new signings, Doyle summed up the despair at a club with a 140-year history by saying: ‘It’s very much in the lap of the gods what happens next.
'I know there are a lot of people who believe the club should be put out of its misery, but there is no way back at all, once that happens.
‘We were down to five or six players for the Bideford game, so there was little option. Still, at least I only had half-a-dozen calls to make to tell the lads it was off..’
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2216874/Kettering-Town-FC-brink-extinction.html#ixzz2UHuHKvEq