{"id":15795,"date":"2023-08-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:50:24","slug":"cup-finals-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2023\/08\/01\/cup-finals-every-night\/","title":{"rendered":"CUP\u00a0 FINALS\u00a0 EVERY\u00a0 NIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First Team To Ten \u00a8d Bring \u00c1lf Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

when Norman Warwick and Colin Lever played<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only do I remember Going To The Match, but I also remember going to the cup final,\u2026.every night.  In fact, I remember playing in the cup final,\u2026.every night. I remember it like it was just the other night,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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when school bell rang at four o\u00b4clock,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

it were off wi\u00b4 the tie, and down  wi \u00b4yer socks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and skip yer \u00b4omework \u00b4n leave yer  tea\u00b4<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and go out \u00b4n play for Wanderer\u00b4s FC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

we were good for nothing boys, a group of ragamuffin boys<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and our lamp-posts was like Wembley\u00b4s brightest floodlights.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were stars wi\u00b4 twinling feet,<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

playing at Wembley on a cobbledy street.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing our cup finals every night.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember how<\/p>\n\n\n\n

two big lads \u00b4d pick two teams<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(and I was always last one picked, it seemed,)<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

even though there p\u00b4raps be fifteen lads each side,<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and first team to ten \u00b4d bring half time,<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

then just as match were tensely poised<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

out came owd Granny \u00c9ap, \u00a8what\u00b4s all this noise?<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and wei\u00b4the score at nineteen all,<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

she\u00b4d beggar off back in and tek the ball !<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cup Finals Every Night recorded by Lendanear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9  Lever \/ Warwick Lever 1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.lendanearmusic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I remember Going To The Match when I was a kid with my dad to watch United, and I remember going to The Lowry, when I was young married man, to see Going To The Match (left)<\/em><\/strong> , which has been on display in the theatre and art museum in Salford since 2000, before being sold to raise money for the new body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for the Players Foundation said: \u201cWe are very proud that we have been able to make sure the British public have had the opportunity to enjoy such a wonderful piece of footballing memorabilia and art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Players Foundation no longer has any income guaranteed, so we have had to completely reposition the charity. The trustees recognise the current financial crisis means we need all the income we can obtain, and all our assets have to work for us to ensure our ongoing work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to continue to provide, amongst other things, benevolent grants to those in real financial need, and assist people with dementia. This has led us to the inevitable decision that the Lowry has to be sold in the interests of our beneficiaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current record price for a Lowry is held jointly by another football painting, The Football Match, which sold for \u00a35.6m in May 2011<\/a>, and a painting of Piccadilly Circus, which also sold for \u00a35.6m<\/a> six months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They stream towards the turnstiles, stick-like figures instantly familiar to anyone who has looked at a painting by LS Lowry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the foreground, their coats and hats are distinct. In the background, beneath the tall chimneys of a long-gone heavy industry, the people are a blur. But all of them have a common purpose: going to the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of writing this article the painting by one of Britain\u2019s best known and best loved painters, is set to smash records when it is put up for sale to raise money for a charity that helps professional football players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going to the Match, painted by Lowry in 1953, is expected to fetch up to \u00a38m. It was last sold in 1999, when the Professional Footballers Association (PFA), the union for current and former players, paid \u00a31.9m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowry only took up painting full-time after retiring from his job as a rent collector in 1952. Before that, he generally painted late at night after his mother, with whom he lived, had gone to bed. A modest and reserved man, he turned down five separate state honours during his lifetime, including a knighthood in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist, famous for his industrial scenes in the north-west of England in the mid-20th century, produced a number of football paintings, of which Going to the Match is the best known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat they\u2019re really about is humanity,\u201d said Nick Orchard, head of modern British and Irish art at Christie\u2019s, which is auctioning the painting in London next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoing to the Match is about emotion, excitement, the crowd gathering, the group experience. In the industrial north-west, most workers in the mills would probably do a five-and-a-half-day week, clock off lunchtime on Saturday, off to the match Saturday afternoon, and that was the beginning of their break from working life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLowry was a great observer of people, particularly within the industrial landscape, and these football matches really captured the essence of what Lowry was trying to get to in his paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stadium in the painting was Burnden Park, the home of Bolton Wanderers, close to Lowry\u2019s home in Pendlebury. (The artist was a lifelong supporter of Manchester City.) Thirty-three fans were crushed to death at Burnden Park in 1946 in one of the worst stadium disasters<\/a> of the last century. It was demolished in 1999, and the site is now a retail park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually worked at Burnden Park in the police control room for fifteen  years as a match day cctv operator, and indeed worked with Bolton for a further twelve years in the same post after their move to the initially named Reebok Stadium (in Horwich) and which has since been called just about any other name you could think of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u00b4new\u00a8 stadium has its statue of Nat Lofthouse (right)<\/em><\/strong> at the front entrance and we fans are hopeful the venue will yet create a history to match that of Burnden !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work b y LS Lowry (left)<\/em><\/strong> shows the old stadium in all its glory. as well as the crowds flocking to the turnstiles, the painting shows crowded terraces inside the ground, and surrounding terraced homes as well as the factories in the background. \u201cHe\u2019s packed it all in,\u201d said Orchard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the PFA paid \u00a31.9m, more than four times the estimate, for Going to the Match in 1999, Gordon Taylor, then chief executive, said it was \u201cquite simply the finest football painting ever.\u201d It would be the PFA\u2019s \u201cprized possession\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PFA\u2019s charitable arm recently became a separate body, the Players Foundation, under a reorganisation prompted by a warning from the Charity Commission<\/a>. It helps players and former players with matters including education, pensions, health and legal issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The advice and decision to sell the painting proved such a complete success, that Bolton fans echoed Skinner and Baddiel\u00b4s hit-turned-terrace-hant that, It\u00b4s Coming Home when the details of the auction were released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Whitehead reported that  \u00b4The clock hits 6.30pm, the auctioneer hits the gavel, and the most famous football painting in history is up for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christie\u2019s west London headquarters is filled with collectors, critics and journalists, the majority waiting for the ninth lot of the evening \u2014 LS Lowry\u2019s Going to the Match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telephone bidders flank the room. A giant screen showing prices in eight currencies casts a ghostly light. Lowry\u2019s painting, hung to the right of the rostrum, is under a spotlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The painting was bought by the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (PFA) in 1999, then given to the Players Foundation, formerly the PFA\u2019s charitable arm and now a separate organisation. The controversy is over where it goes next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PFA put the painting up for sale this year due to the rising pressures of the financial crisis. With the placement of Going to the Match in the Lowry Art Gallery\u2019s collection at risk, the mayor of Salford, Paul Dennett insisted it should remain \u201cfree to access\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dennett started a public campaign to keep the painting in the public\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLS Lowry, Salford\u2019s greatest and most iconic artist, made his name depicting working-class life \u2013 as such we emphatically believed Going to the Match should remain on public view free to access where everyone can see it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gallery was able to make the astronomical bid – \u00a36.6m with a buyer\u2019s premium of \u00a31.2m – thanks to a donation from the Law Family Charitable Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estimates for the sale ranged from \u00a35m to \u00a38m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, the Lowry will stay at The Lowry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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