Learning on ScreenWINGED VICTORY. F.A.
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 7th Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: Amateur Cup Second Round Match, Pegasus v Gelding Colliery, Pegasus winning 6 goals to 1
NCB Commentary - In the cold early morning of January 23rd coal winding started at half past five instead of half past six at Gedling Colliery. Why? At 2,30 in the afternoon the answer was up at the colliery sports ground. 7,000 icy fans packed in to watch the colliery team take on the holders, Pegasus, in the 2nd round of the FA amateur cup.
Pegasus arrived by bus -- but as things turned out they might as well have been airborne. All the same, the fans were to see an hour and a half of scintillating high-speed football.
A few minutes from the kick off Gedlind put on the pressure, and were soon treading the visitors’ goal mouth. If the ball had been running their way, they should have scored. But 20 minutes from the start, Pegasus switched on the adding machine. Gedlind’s Salvin, who kept goal with a dislocated finger, was beaten for the first time by a scrambled goal off D. B. Carr’s boot. Two minutes later R. G. Lunn headed in to put Pegasus two up. As the game wore on, the unlucky Salvin felt the visitors’ attack pushing back his undamaged fingers. 2 minutes before half time, Gedling’s Riley tested the Pegasus crossbar with a piledriver.
Half time, and the crowd were dancing -- but only to keep warm. Pegasus 2, Gedling nil. Five minutes into the second half, and the crowd were dancing again. This time it was for the home team. Nutt on the right wing crossed to Martin on the left. Martin volleyed in to Fay, who slammed a header past Brown at close range.
But as the cheering died down, the flying horsemen moved over to the attack. Pawson completely altered the trend of the game for Pegasus, and the holders added four more to their score.
When referee Cope blew the afternoon’s final icy blast and the teams came off the field, it was Gedling 1 to Pegasus 6. Back at the pit Don Heaselden, leading the cages, had bitter news to send down to his mates who missed the match. - Researcher Comments
- According to bfi records, this story was filmed on the 23rd January 1953. Commentary recorded 1 February 1954.
- Keywords
- Sport; Weather; Competitions; Mining; Football
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used in Synopsis
Film User Vol.8 No.95 September 1954, p436.
The National Archives COAL 32 /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Camera
- Donald Long
- Camera
- Gerry Godfrey
- Camera
- John Reid
- Camera
- Kenneth Reeves
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
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