Tewley Scrumptious

[kushiro]

What do Bilal El Khannouss, Robert Huth, Ian Marshall and Alan Tewley have in common?

 

They've all scored winning goals for Leicester at Tottenham. 

 

Tewley scored the only goal of the game in December 1967, his shot beating Pat Jennings and ending a Spurs unbeaten home run of 28 matches.

 

He's not a player who stands out in the story of Leicester City in the 1960s,  but there were some fascinating moments in his career. Let's have a look at them.

 

 

1)  Crossy and Me

 

Alan was one of our own. Born in Leicester, he was a pupil at Linwood School, a year younger than Graham Cross. The two of them starred in the Linwood side that won the County Cup in 1959. 

 

Then a year later, having both signed as apprentices with Leicester City, they were called up together for a prestigious FA Youth trial game. Cross played in the half-back line, Tewley was a left winger:

 

 

From that point on, their fortunes diverged. Cross quickly broke into the first team and went on to become our record appearance maker. Tewley spent seven years playing for the A team and the reserves, as well as being loaned out to Rugby Town, before he finally made his senior debut at the end of the 1966/67 season.

 

 

2) December Will Be Beautiful

 

His brief shot at glory came the following season, and began with the game at White Hart Lane. Here's that winning goal, his special moment coming as Frank Large collided painfully with a goalpost:

 

 

 

Sadly, none of the papers chose 'Tewley Scrumptious' to headline their match report, as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was still several months from release (and there's no evidence either that a chant based on that song ever got going on the Kop at Filbert Street, despite the chorus containing the line 'When you're smiling').

 

The man who did make all the headlines that day was 18 year-old Peter Shilton, who kept out everything Jmmy Greaves and co. could throw at him. Here's Greaves' reaction as Shilts pulls off yet another acrobatic save:

 

 

A week later, two days before Christmas 1967, over 40,000 were at Filbert Street for the visit of reigning champions Manchester United. John Sjoberg put us one up, then Bobby Charlton scored with 'one of those shots he's famous for'. Denis Law put United ahead but we rescued a point when Alan Tewley 'fired in a superb equaliser'. 

 

The points we picked up against Spurs and Man U eased relegation fears and for Tewley, Christmas pud must have tasted especially sweet. He was finally making his mark. 

 

On Boxing Day we went to Upton Park and raced into a two goal lead. Then before the half hour mark, Tewley struck his third goal in three games - or at least he thought he had. As we were celebrating a 3-0 lead, a linesman belatedly raised a flag against Mike Stringfellow, although he clearly wasn't interfering with play. That was quite a turning point. The Hammers  roared back to win 4-2, and Tewley found himself left out of the team a week later.

 

He only scored twice more for the club, and he made a total of only twenty appearances in almost a decade on City's books.

 

 

3) Rock Bottom

 

In November 1969 Tewley was transfered to Bradford Park Avenue, who were lying 92nd and last in the Football League. As he signed on the Friday evening, the BBC were preparing a special feature on the club for their Nationwide programme. They filmed at the following day's game against leaders Port Vale. Tewley hadn't signed in time to make his debut, but the film is a wonderful time capsule of life in the basement in the late 60s:

 

 

 

Tewley made his debut two weeks later, but he couldn't help them climb the table. At the end of the season, Bradford Park Avenue became the first club since Gateshead ten years earlier to be voted out of the Football League, replaced by Cambridge United.

 

 

4) Terrifying the Rams

 

Tewley spent the rest of his career playing non-League football, but he had one more moment in the spotlight.  When he was at Boston United in 1974, the club reached the Third Round of the FA Cup, and when the draw was made, they were dancing in the streets. They had to travel to Derby County. 

 

This would not only guarantee a huge payout, it was also a restaging of the most famous result in Boston's history, and one of the most incredible giant killing acts ever witnessed. In 1955, Boston had traveled to the Baseball Ground and come away with an unbelievable 6-1 victory.  

 

Derby were a much stronger team in 1974 than they were in the 1950s, and nobody thought Boston had any chance of repeating that shock.

 

They came agonizingly close to pulling it off. 

 

The game's key moment came when Boston's Howard Wilkinson (yes, him) sent over a perfect cross and Alan Tewley, coming in on the blind side of Rod Thomas, headed against a post. The ball trickled along the goal line before being scramble away for a corner.

 

The match finished 0-0. 

 

Here's the two men involved in that oh-so-close moment:

 

 

And here's Tewley up against David Nish:

 

 

 

That's from the replay, when Derby woke up and won 6-1, reversing that score of two decades earlier. Boston got over it pretty quickly - they'd had a glorious adventure and made a pile of cash. 

 

And there ends a short and sweet run through of Alan Tewley's career.  

 

For those of you with a sweet tooth, here's the song:

 

 

Edited 17 February by kushiro

[Aus Fox]

Does Jeff Schlupp mean nothing to you? 

[kushiro]

16 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

Does Jeff Schlupp mean nothing to you? 

 

Yeah - Jeff too. There's been a few. Jimmy Walsh got the winner two seasons running at WHL - the second one was their double season.

[Wolfox]

Nice as ever @kushiro!!!!

 

Enjoyed that…. Is he still alive?  He may enjoy reading this!

[kushiro]

3 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

Nice as ever @kushiro!!!!

 

Enjoyed that…. Is he still alive?  He may enjoy reading this!

 

I tried to find out but didn't get anywhere. Someone must know...

[murphy]

2 hours ago, kushiro said:

 

I tried to find out but didn't get anywhere. Someone must know...

I think some of the lesser lights of our past make for the most interesting reading.  Brilliant, as ever.

 

This screenshot says current age 80 which implies he's still with us.

 

It also says he played a further 68 games back in The Football League (Div 4) with Crewe Alexandra.

 

All this and still found time to crack the Nazi enigma code.  What a guy!

 

 

[kushiro]

24 minutes ago, murphy said:

I think some of the lesser lights of our past make for the most interesting reading.  Brilliant, as ever.

 

This screenshot says current age 80 which implies he's still with us.

 

It also says he played a further 68 games back in The Football League (Div 4) with Crewe Alexandra.

 

All this and still found time to crack the Nazi enigma code.  What a guy!

 

 

 

Enigma code. Ha ha. Very good.

[Graceroad]

Don't forget Pat Byrne

[Foxdiamond]

10 hours ago, kushiro said:

What do Bilal El Khannouss, Robert Huth, Ian Marshall and Alan Tewley have in common?

 

They've all scored winning goals for Leicester at Tottenham. 

 

Tewley scored the only goal of the game in December 1967, his shot beating Pat Jennings and ending a Spurs unbeaten home run of 28 matches.

 

He's not a player who stands out in the story of Leicester City in the 1960s,  but there were some fascinating moments in his career. Let's have a look at them.

 

 

1)  Crossy and Me

 

Alan was one of our own. Born in Leicester, he was a pupil at Linwood School, a year younger than Graham Cross. The two of them starred in the Linwood side that won the County Cup in 1959. 

 

Then a year later, having both signed as apprentices with Leicester City, they were called up together for a prestigious FA Youth trial game. Cross played in the half-back line, Tewley was a left winger:

 

 

From that point on, their fortunes diverged. Cross quickly broke into the first team and went on to become our record appearance maker. Tewley spent seven years playing for the A team and the reserves, as well as being loaned out to Rugby Town, before he finally made his senior debut at the end of the 1966/67 season.

 

 

2) December Will Be Beautiful

 

His brief shot at glory came the following season, and began with the game at White Hart Lane. Here's that winning goal, his special moment coming as Frank Large collided painfully with a goalpost:

 

 

 

Sadly, none of the papers chose 'Tewley Scrumptious' to headline their match report, as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was still several months from release (and there's no evidence either that a chant based on that song ever got going on the Kop at Filbert Street, despite the chorus containing the line 'When you're smiling').

 

The man who did make all the headlines that day was 18 year-old Peter Shilton, who kept out everything Jmmy Greaves and co. could throw at him. Here's Greaves' reaction as Shilts pulls off yet another acrobatic save:

 

 

A week later, two days before Christmas 1967, over 40,000 were at Filbert Street for the visit of reigning champions Manchester United. John Sjoberg put us one up, then Bobby Charlton scored with 'one of those shots he's famous for'. Denis Law put United ahead but we rescued a point when Alan Tewley 'fired in a superb equaliser'. 

 

The points we picked up against Spurs and Man U eased relegation fears and for Tewley, Christmas pud must have tasted especially sweet. He was finally making his mark. 

 

On Boxing Day we went to Upton Park and raced into a two goal lead. Then before the half hour mark, Tewley struck his third goal in three games - or at least he thought he had. As we were celebrating a 3-0 lead, a linesman belatedly raised a flag against Mike Stringfellow, although he clearly wasn't interfering with play. That was quite a turning point. The Hammers  roared back to win 4-2, and Tewley found himself left out of the team a week later.

 

He only scored twice more for the club, and he made a total of only twenty appearances in almost a decade on City's books.

 

 

3) Rock Bottom

 

In November 1969 Tewley was transfered to Bradford Park Avenue, who were lying 92nd and last in the Football League. As he signed on the Friday evening, the BBC were preparing a special feature on the club for their Nationwide programme. They filmed at the following day's game against leaders Port Vale. Tewley hadn't signed in time to make his debut, but the film is a wonderful time capsule of life in the basement in the late 60s:

 

 

 

Tewley made his debut two weeks later, but he couldn't help them climb the table. At the end of the season, Bradford Park Avenue became the first club since Gateshead ten years earlier to be voted out of the Football League, replaced by Cambridge United.

 

 

4) Terrifying the Rams

 

Tewley spent the rest of his career playing non-League football, but he had one more moment in the spotlight.  When he was at Boston United in 1974, the club reached the Third Round of the FA Cup, and when the draw was made, they were dancing in the streets. They had to travel to Derby County. 

 

This would not only guarantee a huge payout, it was also a restaging of the most famous result in Boston's history, and one of the most incredible giant killing acts ever witnessed. In 1955, Boston had traveled to the Baseball Ground and come away with an unbelievable 6-1 victory.  

 

Derby were a much stronger team in 1974 than they were in the 1950s, and nobody thought Boston had any chance of repeating that shock.

 

They came agonizingly close to pulling it off. 

 

The game's key moment came when Boston's Howard Wilkinson (yes, him) sent over a perfect cross and Alan Tewley, coming in on the blind side of Rod Thomas, headed against a post. The ball trickled along the goal line before being scramble away for a corner.

 

The match finished 0-0. 

 

Here's the two men involved in that oh-so-close moment:

 

 

And here's Tewley up against David Nish:

 

 

 

That's from the replay, when Derby woke up and won 6-1, reversing that score of two decades earlier. Boston got over it pretty quickly - they'd had a glorious adventure and made a pile of cash. 

 

And there ends a short and sweet run through of Alan Tewley's career.  

 

For those of you with a sweet tooth, here's the song:

 

 

Remember that win at Spurs though I wasn't there. Was such a surprise to end the Spurs run of avoiding defeat at home. Remember thinking well done Alan Tewley and the rave reviews of Peter Shilton