by Martyn Cheatle | Apr 27, 2020 | Players Story
The start of the first ever season was now close and to give the team experience of playing competitive football Dick Lambert arranged a friendly It was against one of the other teams in the same league. The game was to be played against New Clifton on the Swansdowne...
by Martyn Cheatle | Apr 27, 2020 | Players Story
The Summer of 63 was the start of the second season of the Young Elizabethan League. Clifton Athletic who played down at Gresham fields were the team to beat. The first season in the league 1962 had seen both ‘A’ and ‘B’teams win the Senior (Under 14s) and...
by Martyn Cheatle | Apr 27, 2020 | Players Story
The first winners of the Young Elizabethan Football league in the 1962/63 season were Clifton Athletic Youth Club. That first season saw them do the double as they won both the Senior and Intermediate League. Add to this the Intermediate Knockout Trophy and the...
by Martyn Cheatle | Apr 27, 2020 | Players Story
For Junior football in Clifton you have to go back to 1962. The most famous player at the time was David Pleat who lived at the beginning of the estate at 10 Farnborough Road in the very first houses to be built on what was to become the largest housing estate in...
