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DEFEATED 1—2 away from home by Leyland Motors, the bottom club in the league, ^ Clitheroe undoubtedly received a big shock on Saturday.


Their championship hopes certainly received a severe blow and although one docs not


wish to over-emphasize the importance of one slip, the fact remains that there was abund­ ant evidence to suggest that Clitheroe’s attack is still not good enough to keep them at the


t0|> Failure to collect even a point was all the more frustrating because Clithcroe's rivals for chief honours nearly all had setbacks. A victory' for Clithcroe would certainly, in the circumstances, have been of consider­


able value and a great morale booster, sympathy must be


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given to the Shaw Bridge side, for in one hectic spell in the Clitheroe goalmouth, Walker, the reserve goalkeeper depu­ tises for Wallace, w a s carried off with a badly gashed knee and Mel Widdup


wok over in goal. It was while Walker was


handicap when their inside riirht had to go off for a few minutes with a leg injury. Tlie ground was very soft and


ofl the field that Leyland scored their second goal. The home side also suffered a


down. Lcyiand attacked down the


period was that the whig-halves and inside forwards were hold­ ing on to the ball too long and were being too often caught in possession. Nightingale put Clitheroe on


Clithcroe’s main failing at this


went down in the area. I t was as a result of this incident that Walker was carried off with a badly gashed knee.


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the attack, by beating two men and passing to Gill whose through ball found Bibby. From the left winger's cross,


an amazing g o a lm o u th scramble ensued, ending with Nicholls clearing of. the line from Wallbank. After 30 minutes. Leyland took the lead when Bradshaw broke


a strong cross-wind was blowing


right across the ground. Under the conditions, it took both teams quite a time to settle


right wing and a cross from Clarkson found Evans unmarked,


end and a good ball from Wall- bank reached Gill and from his centre, Heaton gave away a


but he shot wide. Plav was moving from end to


corner. From the kick, Bibby headed


again but Wallbank hesitated with his shot and was dispos­ sessed by Gomall. Walker conceded a corner as Bradshaw threatened.


straight into Eastham’s hands. Clitheroe attacked once


SPORTS PORTRAIT


GOALKEEPER, NOW GOALSCORER


^yHEN Mel Widdup, Clitheroe's free-scoring centre-forward first started playing football his ambition was to be a


goalkeeper. Now it is his job to score goals and he has proved a real terror to opposing goalkeepers this season. Mel started his football


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career as a goalkeeper at junior school, and it was only by acccident that he was moved. Before one game, the regular outside right was injured, and Mel was elected


nical and Grammar School, he Player for the school and later for Blackburn Schoolboys. I t was when he was at the Tech and Grammar that he was moved inside and partnered Barrie Ratclifle, who was later to play for Blackbm-n Rovers. Mel's first taste of Combina­


to fill the wing position. Educated at Blackburn Tech­


ton, but returned to Shaw Bridge las; season. Last year, Mel played in nine .


tion football was with Great Harwood. From there he movod to Padiham before ioining Clitheroc. He left Clitheroe for Accring­


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pin! fir • • » StfOOOV


league games, scoring three goals. He made his return debut on February G at Shaw Bridge against Bacup Borough. Clith- eroe lost that game 1—2 but Mel


scored Clitheroe's goal. This season he is doing much


better, for after missing the first league game, he has played in tile last 16 matches, scoring 30 goals. A strange fact about 2


old Mel tills season is that he struck a goal famine and did not score in the first nine league games, but then had the distinc­ tion of scoring in five consecu­ tive games; in that period he netted eight times. In the last two seasons he has


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equaliser- and Wallbank went close on two occasions, and then Baron had a good effort toned round the post by Eastham. Half-time came with Leyland


away, crossed to Jump who only had to tap the ball home. Clitheroe fought hard for the


tioned in this week's Sports Portrait, started his football career as a goalkeeper at junior school, took over as custodian but had no chance when Clark­ son beat him from Inside the area after 75 minutes to put Leyland 2—0 in the lead. I t was Clarkson, Leyland’s


Mel Widdup, who, as men­


Clitheroe Advertiser 'and Times..Friday, January 7. 1966 9


Away games six o f top teams still to come


A s Clitheroc are challenging strongly for the championship of the Lancashire Combination for the first time in many


years, it is interesting to see how they have fared against their


chief rivals, or when and where they oppose the others. Of the top eight clubs


tn


the Combination, Clitheroc have already played five at Shaw Bridge but only one away from home, although they have faced two of those


have been to Shaw Bridge and were held to a 0—0 draw, but Clitheroe travel to meet them away on Saturday, March 19. Other top clubs they have


teams away in cup games. Chorley, the league-leaders,


could afford to pay one or cer­ tainly two players as much as


In those days South Liverpool


were able to give them a run for their money and the teams op­ posed each other in many splen­ did matches which were long


Clitheroe could afford to pay their whole team. Despite this fact, Clitheroc


remembered. Unless there arc some changes


faced at Shaw Bridge are Netli- erfield. who are third (Clitheroe won 2—0. their goals coming form 'two of Netherfield's de­


fenders) , Horwlch who arc fourth (2—1) and Barrow Reserves


eighth, who beat Clitheroe 3—1. Clitheroc wreaked their re­


venge over Barrow Reserves, when they played them away only a few days after then- home defeat and won 2—1, both their goals coming from Widdup. In cup matches, Clitheroe have


inside right, who had left the field earlier with a leg injury, but while he was off, the home defence h e ld firm against Clitheroe's pressure. Walker returned with his leg


still leading 1—0. Tire second-half opened with a


to the fixture list due to the weather or other imforseen diffi­ culties. Clitheroe will face the other top clubs °n the following dates; Netherficld away on Feb­ ruary 26; Lancaster (home) March 12; Chorley (away) March 19: Fleetwood (away) April 8: Fleetwood (home) April 11; Horwich (away) April 30. The matches with South Liver­


opposed Fleetwood who are sixth and Ijancaster who are seventh. Both matches were in the


SPORTS NOTES On Saturday David Baron.


qualifying rounds of the FA Cup. Clitheroe faced Lancaster at


lot of midfield play with neither side gaining any advantage. Kirk was brought down out­


side tile area after beating three men. Gill managed to get the ball in the net but was ruled offside by tire linesman. In tire next Clitheroe attack


Wallbank gave Gill a chance, but the outside right's shot was straight at Eastham. Minutes later, Leyland attacked, and Walker, Kirk and Jump


heavily bandaged and Clitheroe threw everything into attack. Widdup shot over the bar in one effort, and then Eastham had to dive at his feet to prevent the Clitheroe leader from scoring. Baron broke through the


Heminsley; Kirk, Nightingale, Baron; Gill, Hobson, Widdup, Wallbank, Bibby. Referee; Mr. G. A. Menlove


ham; Nicholls, Hunter; Gomall, Heaton, Unsworth; Bradshaw, Clarkson. Evans. Jump, Kirk- ham. Clithcroe: Walker; Heye s ,


of Liverpool.


Lancashire Combination and the PA Amateur Cup were: Bacup Borough 2 St. Helens 1: Barrow Reserves. 2 Lancaster City 1; Droylsden 0 Great Har­ wood 3; Honvich 3 Burscougli 3; Leyland Motors 2 Clitheroe 1; Morecambe 4 Chorley 4; Nelson 2 Guinness Export 4; Prescot Town 3 Marine 5; Southport Reserves 1 South Liverpool 1. The match between Rossen-


Saturday's results in the RESULTS


dale United and Fleetwood-was postponed. FA Amateur Cup: Skclmers- dale 0 Alvechurch 2.


South Liverpool 17 12 2 3 26 Netherfield . . . 20 10 6 4 26 Honvich ....... 17 12 1 4 25 Clithcroe ....... . 18 11 3 4. 25 Fleetwood . . . 18 12 1 5 25 Lancaster


Chorley ....... 21 12 6 3 31 P. W. D. L. Ps.


all Clitheroe, but they were denied the face-saving equaliser. Teams, Leyland Motors: East­


packed defence after 85 min­ utes *o score Clitheroe’s only goal. In the last few minutes it was


Fleetwood with the dream of playing Third or Fourth Division


Shaw Bridge and defeated them 2—0 before Urey ' played More­ cambe at home and beat them 2—1. They then travelled to


opponents in the First Round proper of the FA Cup if they win. They crashed however 1—3, going down to a stronger and more powerful seaside team, which is rapidly climbing the combination table. Tlie two games with South


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Clitheroe’s wing-half scored his fourth league goal of the season, and it is interesting to note that all his four league goals and one of his two cup goals have all been scored in away games. Another point to note is that


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in the games in which lie has scored. Clitheroe have lost three of the four league games, and one out of the two cup games. Citheroe’s defeat on Saturday


that the Liverpool players were not having the same holidays as the Clitheroe players. Old supporters of Clitheroc will


Combination and South Liver­ pool were their chief rivals.


recall the days prior to the last war when Clitlierce were one of the outstanding teams in the


Liverpool, who are now second in the league, which would defin­ itely have aroused great inter­ est were unfortunately postponed due to the weather, and the fact


meant the end of an unbeaten run of four away games. In fact they were last defeated in an away game back in October, when Rosseudale United beat them 3-2 at Dark Lane. Since then they have beaten Southport Reserves 2-1, drawn 2-2 with Morecambe, and beaten Barrow Rcserves and Bacup Borough 2-1 and 5-1 respectively. Apart from one game, Clith­


scoring was their' home match against Chorley, which ended in a goalless draw.


eroe, who have scored 35 goals in 18 matches, have scored in every league game this season. Tlie game in which they missed


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Barrow R. ... . 21 9 5 7 23 Marine ........... . 14 9 2 3 20 Great Harwood 17 8 4 5 20 Morecambe . .. . 20 5 9 6 19 Droylesden ,. . . 19 6 6 7 18 Bacup Borough 21 8 2 11 18 Burscough . .. 22 6 5 11 17 Skelmersdale . . 17 7 2 8 16 Nelson ........... . 17 6 2 9 14 St. Helens .. . . 22 6 2 14 14 Guinness Ex. . . 15 5 2 8 12 Prescot Town . 19 5 2 11 12 Leyland Motors 22 4 4 18 12 Southport R. • . 19 4 ' 3 12 u Rossendale .. . 18 3 5 10 11


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Played in three positions for Clitheroe, centre forward, out­ side right and right half. Mel told me that he favoured right halt, but "f don’t stand much of a chance getting another oppor­ tunity there as John Kirk is Playing so well at the moment.” Born in Blackburn, Mel lives in


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He was quite set in his views at Combination football has


-eteriorated this season, he added “I think the standard is much lower this season,' there doesn't seem to be as many good teams ln the league this year.” Me! continued. "Taking all


£LITHEROE born goal­ keeper, Jimmy Furnell,


transfer-listed by Arsenal a month ago, is still no nearer a move, despite a first offer ol £4,000 for him this week by Plymouth Argylc, wr i t e s Stephen Curry, from our Lon­


don office. The Plymouth bid made by


manager Derek Ufton on Tues­ day, was promptly dismissed by Arsenal chief. Billy Wright, as tantamount to an insult.


things into account, I think Clitheroe have quite a good chance for the title. We are very well placed, but there are some hard matches coming up in February and March.’ Among his memorable experi­


ences, he put two down as stand­ ing out vividly in his memory. Tile first was a couple of years


ago when Clithcroc played away at Winsford in the semi-final of the now disbanded Lancashire anq Cheshire Inter-league Cup. Mel said “I scored twice to give


national star, told me ’‘Because Furnell has been on offer for a month without enquiry does not mean I will let him go for pea­ nuts. That’s what Plymouth s


Wright, the former Inter­


offer amounted to." A t 'present, 26-year-old Furnell.


heels in the reserve teani aftei being replaced in Arsenal s scnioi side by teenager Tony Burns.


an old boy of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, is kicking his


Clitheroe a 2—0 lead, but then things got out of hand, and three of our players, including myself, were ordered back to the dres­ sing room. Clitheroe lo s t' the game oy 4—2." His other outstanding football


Athletic' centre half, said “I have been looking for a. goal­ keeper for some time and been checking on those available. I made my offer to Arsenal and they turned me down, I do not Intend to raise my bid.” In these days ,of football


Ufton, a former Charlton


memories were when .Clitheroe did thc treble over Chorley, beat­ ing them in the league and cup,


w°e players that the substitute rule should be Introduced Into Combination, football, but said there was nothing else he


He agreed with other0 Cllth- - j


JIM NOT


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DEFEAT FOR WADDINGT0N


Blackburn Combination Division 2


Rishton 5, Waddington 3 THE New Year started badly


suffered their first defeat since early November. A combination of defensive


for Waddington, as they


hesitancy and bud finishing was responsible for the disappointing result, and although Waddington fought hard, they came away without the point they deserved. On a wet ground and playing with a strong cross-wind, Wad­ dington opened well but despite strong pressure, Rishton held out until the 18th minute when, after amazing misses by Ripley and Robinson, Ripley was fouled in the penalty area and Kay scored easily from the spot. Rishton equalised after 30


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minutes and then took the lead in the 34th minute when the visitors' defence was a fault. The home side scored again after 40 minutes to lead 3—1


at half-time. Flaying downhill in the second


half, Waddington recovered their poise and attacked strongly, but were shocked when Rishton added to their score after 60


affluence Wright will be expecting a figure between £5.000 and £10,000 for Furnell, whom he bought from Liverpool for an estimated £12,000 on November


and when Clitheroe beat More- eambe 2—1 in the FA Cup at Shaw Bridge and Ray Hobson scored the winning goal minutes before the end.


'not optimistic in assuming he might get more than £4,000 for the former Burnley and Liver­


have spiralled and Wright Is


22, 1963. Even since 1963, transfer fees


pool goalkeeper. During his career at High­


d change if he had the op-


A strong player, able to bustle way through a crowd of de. lers. —David Boderke


bury. Fumell has made more than SO league appearances. He made his debut for the


Gunners against Blackpool, the same opposition he faced in his


First Division debut for Burnley way back in.April, I960.


minutes. Waddington increased their


efforts and despite the home goal having some miraculous escapes, the inevitable goal did not come until the 73rd minute when, after good work by Kay. Ripley forced the ball home. Two minutes later Seedall centred for Ripley to make the


score 4—3. As the visitors struggled for


the equaliser, Rishton showed their finishing power and scored to make the-final result beyond


doubt. - Waddington: O'Neill; Simp- son, Pearson; Benson, Com thwaitc, Trotter; Ripley, Ward, Robinson, Kay, Scedali.


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