| RIP Les Massie 20:06 - Nov 13 with 1232 views | EllDale |
Scottish forward famous (or infamous) for scoring the only goal when Halifax Town beat Rochdale at the Shay in May 1969 in front of 17000 people.
As a 14 year old I hated him for that at the time.
Years later a friend of mine took over a pub in Halifax and it became my local.
Massie was long retired by then and working in a local engineering works and played for the pub pool team.
Really nice modest bloke.
Suffered badly from dementia in recent years but before then loved to talk about football. |  | | |  |
| RIP Les Massie on 20:41 - Nov 13 with 1188 views | SuddenLad |
One of Bill Shankly's proteges from Huddersfield Town. Les Massie was a decent player and that game at the Shay was cracker. He had a few clubs before finishing his career. He was 85, so he had a decent innings. |  |
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| RIP Les Massie on 21:11 - Nov 13 with 1153 views | EllDale |
Dale and Halifax were two well matched teams in those days.
The following season we lost 3-1 there in November 1969 when a win would have taken us top of the old Division Three. I think Bill Atkins scored for them that day.
And the year after that we won 4-1 at the Shay on Boxing Day with Denis Butler scoring three.
Great times. | | | |
| RIP Les Massie on 21:27 - Nov 13 with 1126 views | TVOS1907 |
| RIP Les Massie on 21:11 - Nov 13 by EllDale |
Dale and Halifax were two well matched teams in those days.
The following season we lost 3-1 there in November 1969 when a win would have taken us top of the old Division Three. I think Bill Atkins scored for them that day.
And the year after that we won 4-1 at the Shay on Boxing Day with Denis Butler scoring three.
Great times. |
1-0 (23 mins) - Dave Lennard
1-1 (50 mins) - Tony Buck
2-1 (85 mins) - Freddie Hill
3-1 (89 mins) - Dave Lennard
Attendance: 7,570 |  |
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| RIP Les Massie on 08:21 - Nov 14 with 999 views | pioneer |
| RIP Les Massie on 21:11 - Nov 13 by EllDale |
Dale and Halifax were two well matched teams in those days.
The following season we lost 3-1 there in November 1969 when a win would have taken us top of the old Division Three. I think Bill Atkins scored for them that day.
And the year after that we won 4-1 at the Shay on Boxing Day with Denis Butler scoring three.
Great times. |
And butler discovered after the game he played with a broken leg. | | | |
| RIP Les Massie on 10:52 - Nov 14 with 946 views | mingthemerciless |
| RIP Les Massie on 21:27 - Nov 13 by TVOS1907 |
1-0 (23 mins) - Dave Lennard
1-1 (50 mins) - Tony Buck
2-1 (85 mins) - Freddie Hill
3-1 (89 mins) - Dave Lennard
Attendance: 7,570 |
Freddie Hill was a class act in those days. He'd been an England International when he was at Bolton. I never saw him have a bad game whoever he was playing for. [Post edited 14 Nov 2020 10:58]
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| RIP Les Massie on 10:56 - Nov 14 with 943 views | mingthemerciless |
| RIP Les Massie on 20:41 - Nov 13 by SuddenLad |
One of Bill Shankly's proteges from Huddersfield Town. Les Massie was a decent player and that game at the Shay was cracker. He had a few clubs before finishing his career. He was 85, so he had a decent innings. |
The atomosphere for that game at The Shay was great but I thought the match itself was pretty dull. Halifax had a way of playing that was attritional and wasn't that easy on the eye. The'Dale never really got into their footballing stride. [Post edited 14 Nov 2020 12:10]
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| RIP Les Massie on 11:39 - Nov 14 with 907 views | D_Alien |
| RIP Les Massie on 10:56 - Nov 14 by mingthemerciless |
The atomosphere for that game at The Shay was great but I thought the match itself was pretty dull. Halifax had a way of playing that was attritional and wasn't that easy on the eye. The'Dale never really got into their footballing stride. [Post edited 14 Nov 2020 12:10]
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Agreed. Incredible event for several reasons, but the match itself a bit of a non-event, not just the outcome |  |
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| RIP Les Massie on 12:36 - Nov 14 with 863 views | EllDale |
I seem to remember that Halifax’s main threat came from centre half Chris Nichols from corners.
Chris Harker made a couple of decent saves but apart from that they didn’t look like scoring until Massie popped up.
Don’t think the pitch helped it as a spectacle either. | | | |
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| RIP Les Massie on 14:07 - Nov 14 with 818 views | davidab2202 |
| RIP Les Massie on 10:52 - Nov 14 by mingthemerciless |
Freddie Hill was a class act in those days. He'd been an England International when he was at Bolton. I never saw him have a bad game whoever he was playing for. [Post edited 14 Nov 2020 10:58]
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Watched Freddie Hill quite a lot in his Bolton days and totally agree--he was a class act probably very much under appreciated as he was another of what appeared to be slow players but his football brain more than made up for it. | | | |
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