Two Professional Footballers!

INTRODUCTION
As we've previously mentioned on this blog Bowerchalke CC had two players who had professional football careers.

Those players were: Terry Gulliver who played for Weymouth, Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic and Cape Town City and Dave Syrett who played for Swindon Town, Mansfield Town, Walsall, Peterborough United, Northampton Town, Salisbury and Brackley. You can see pictures of these two players in their whites in the Bowerchalke CC team photographs.

Terry Gulliver is in this photograph: http://bowerccmem.blogspot.com/2009/04/bowerchalke-cc-and-trinity-college.html and Dave Syrett is in this photograph: http://bowerccmem.blogspot.com/2009/04/bowerchalke-cc-early-1970s.html

We thought you might also enjoy these football photographs and weblinks to more information.

PHOTOGRAPH 1 BOURNEMOUTH AND BOSCOMBE ATHLETIC AFC 1968-69
Terry Gulliver is in the back row, third from the left:


PHOTOGRAPH 2 BOURNEMOUTH AND BOSCOMBE ATHLETIC AFC 1969-70
Terry Gulliver is in the front row (not on the ground) and is the first on the left. Football fans will note the presence of the famous striker Ted MacDougal directly behind Terry in the middle row.
PHOTOGRAPHS 3, 4 and 5 DAVE SYRETT IN THE MANSFIELD TOWN VERSUS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOOTBALL PROGRAMME FROM 25TH MARCH 1978
This match may well be remembered by those of you who recall The Big Match, ITVs soccer programme from the 1970s. In this match, which was covered by the TV programme, Dave Syrett scored a hat-trick in a 3-3 draw! The photographs were taken in the Mansfield home game versus Bolton Wanderers a couple of weeks before.

WEBPAGE LINKS
You may enjoy the following webpages, the first is a summary of Dave Syrett's career at Swindon Town:

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/ForceFrames.htm?http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/StatAttack/PlayerMostAndLeast.asp?Type=Goals

This is an interesting blog entry from a Crystal Palace fan:

http://forums.cpfc.org/showthread.php?t=188373

The following link shows a write-up of the Mansfield Town versus Tottenham game from 1978:

http://www.football-england.com/mansfield_3_tottenham_3.html

The following link shows some footage from The Big Match in 1976, Crystal Palace 3-3 Swindon Town at Selhurst Park with Dave Syrett scoring two goals and setting up another. This is classic stuff! Quite a different setting from Bowerchalke CC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8gG8AVIwA

Keith and Stuart Gulliver

Bowerchalke CC Early 1970s

This is the most recent photograph we have come across so far. Again our Mum & Dad are the source. The photograph was originally published in The Salisbury Times / Journal (negative reference number 1633A).

Back-row: Tim Barter, Tony Izzard, Morris Lampert, Chris Downs, David Holmes, Brian Gulliver

Front-row: David Syrett, Peter Syrett, Dorien Petch, Reggie Clough, Paul Lee

If you look closely at this photograph you can see the fence around the outfield, discussed in previous posts on this blog!

There are a few players here who also played for Nomads CC in Salisbury (both Syretts, David Holmes, Brian Gulliver and Tony Izzard). Of course Gordon Lampert, another Bowerchalke CC player, also played for Nomads CC. Nomads CC played in Harnham.

It's also interesting to note that this picture includes a second person (David Syrett) who went on to play professional football, Terry Gulliver (Weymouth, Bournemouth & Boscombe and Cape Town City) being the other.

David Syrett played for Swindon Town, Mansfield Town, Walsall, Peterborough, Northampton, Salisbury and Brackley. We'll see if we can dig out some more on David. His brother Peter also played at Swindon Town. KeithG remembers the first ever football match his Dad took him to was Southampton Reserves versus Swindon Town Reserves at The Dell when David and Peter both played for Swindon. Amazing eh?

KeithG and StuartG