{"id":13581,"date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=13581"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"bftp-bill-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2006\/05\/18\/bftp-bill-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"BFTP &#8211; Bill Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Blast From The Past &#8211; Bill Whitehead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/toshbook.tripod.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met Bill when he was maybe 70 years old in the early seventies. We were both employed as cricket scoreboard operators at St Helens and we struck up a friendship. Bill told me of his move to the Vetch, from Boston maybe? I think he later played for QPR but returned to live in Swansea when he retired having married a local girl. He only played a couple of times for the first team but was a great success in the Reserves, so much so that he was selected for the Welsh League in a number of representative matchesincluding the Irish League away. He showed me a medal from one of these &#8211; he&#8217;d had to pawn the others at some stage. We&#8217;d meet and go to the Vetch &#8211; I was amazed when another couple of old guys recognised him almost fifty years after he&#8217;d played! We went to the library and found papers reporting his goals for the Swans. Sadly we lost touch when I moved.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted By Mike Floate<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to add to this Blast From The Past or create a new entry? Just <a href=\"http:\/\/swanseacity.rivals.net\/default.asp?sid=971&#038;p=2&#038;stid=8381934\"> click here<\/a> to do so <\/p>\n<p>BLAST FROM THE PAST &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/swanseacity.rivals.net\/default.asp?sid=971&#038;p=2&#038;stid=8382104\"> THE MAIN INDEX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast From The Past &#8211; Bill Whitehead I met Bill when he was maybe 70 years old in the early seventies. We were both employed as cricket scoreboard operators at St Helens and we struck up a friendship. Bill told me of his move to the Vetch, from Boston maybe? I think he later played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}