The swinging sixties hey! What a right carry on that was. But it wasn’t all mini-skirts, dodgy haircuts, love, peace, and incense you know. The baby boomers are a versatile lot and they enjoyed kicking balls about too. For those of you a little longer in the tooth than the baby-faced, and what the more unkind amongst you jaded fat cats would refer to as, the baby-brained millennials, you may remember that in 1966 a relatively unknown country called England won the World Cup. This photo you see before you was taken the year before. And even though there’s not a hippy, a pair of flares, a Beatles album or a suspiciously rolled cigarette in sight, it was the era of the power of flowers dude and things were happening. Just maybe not in Abergavenny.

But what was occurring in our fair town was soccer and lots of it.

Take the lovely lads in this pic for instance. They went by the name of the Abergavenny Amateurs and are pictured here ahead of their match against a team of tourists from the Emerald Isle. The luck of the Irish didn’t hold sway that day and the Aber massive won.

Drum roll please. In the back row left from right we have John Neal, Dave Gladwin, George Compling, Jeff Williams and Roger Davies.

Moving on from the grunt and groan of the rearguard and taking the action to the front row we have Mike Hooper, Ray Griffiths, Albert Poplour, Doug James, Ray Hamer and Mike Powell.

Nuff said! Until next week it’s time to tune in, turn off, and drop out. Ciao for now.

If you’ve got any engaging and striking pictures from the past (they don’t just have to be sport related!) that could do with an airing and benefit from the oxygen of publicity, then why let them

linger and gather dust in the drawer a day longer? Send them to [email protected]. Alternatively you can do things the old fashioned way and pick up the telephone and ring Tim Butters on 01873 852187 (30).