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St Luke's School team 1926

Manchester United in Jersey

Matt Busby and his Manchester United 'Busby Babes' during a stopover at Jersey Airport in 1957, the year before so many were killed in the Munich air disaster - Picture *Evening Post*

A visit by a later Man Utd team in 1971. Team members in this photograph include George Best on the left, Bobby Charlton on the right, with Denis Law in the back row behind him. In the centre is Jersey resident Sir Billy Butlin

Autographs on a menu for the post-match dinner
Manchester United run out at Springfield

Jersey teams of the past, young and old

An island team, probably in the 1920s
The island side in 1937
St John's parish team, 1954-55
1948 Liberation match teamsheet
St Saviour's Football Club in 1911
Grouville parish football teams
An excursion to watch the Upton Park Cup Final in Guernsey in 1929
A Gorey Rovers team
St Martin team in 1894
Wanderers 1921-22
Guernsey Northerners supporters in Jersey for the 1924 Upton Park Cup Final
Jersey Wanderers
Muratti supporters 1928
Muratti supporters 1931
Muratti supporters 1931
Muratti band 1934
Muratti supporters 1920
Muratti supporters 1931
Bon Secours School match in 1905
Young footballers in 1900
Lawrence Gallie in 1901
1933 Muratti supporters
First Tower United

Supporters on the way to the 1928 Muratti final

Magpies, 1950s champions

The next twelve pictures are of victorious Magpies FC teams in the 1950s. They include the winners of the Wheway Cup in 1953 and the team which retained the inter-island Upton Trophy in 1955

1953
1955
1955
1955
1955
1956
1956
1956
1957
1957

A First Tower United team
Another First Tower team in 1927
1947 Muratti - Picture Evening Post
Football on People's Park in 1957
St Clement's Football Club 1946
A match in 1915
Teighmore team in 1918
St Clement's School team 1934-35
Intermediate School, 1947-48
St Paul's School, 1942
St Ouen Football Club, 1924
St Ouen FC, 1926
St Clement FC, 1946
An 1870s island side photographed by Ernest Baudoux
First Tower FC, 1922
Part of the crowd at the 1965 Upton Park final at Springfield between Georgetown and Guernsey's St Martin
The captains shake hands before the 1965 Upton Park final
Action from the 1965 Upton Park final won 3-1 by Guernsey's St Martin over Jersey's Georgetown
The victorious St Martin team
The Georgetown team
First Tower United in 1965
Post Office Football Club in 1904-05

Magpies victorious at Springfield, 1957
Beeches Old Boys Association 1946/47 team - D Laugeard, R de la Cour, R Le Riche, R Lobb, G Quarry, M C Allen, E Cox, G Newton, J Sherry, P Gosling and D Tredant
YMCA league and cup double winners in 1928-29 - G M Burton (secretary) W A Pallot, R E Troy, L T Holder, E J Jepson, P J Le Geyt, C J Gicquel, A S Gray (trainer), P de Tolede, R J Staig, E Cox, E F Le Feuvre, W J A Gray, H G Marie, R Le Vesconte
Springfield, 1977
Beeches c1930
Beeches 1933
Beeches teams
Jersey's 1977 Muratti team
Wanderers 1971 members' handbook
Wanderers 1971 members' handbook
Oaklands FC in 1930-31
The steamship Alberta had its own football club in 1918
A Jersey team between 1870 and 1887
Wheway Cup at Springfield in 1950
Jersey XI 1906-07
Trinity Football Club 1922
St Ouen FC in 1933
Jersey's winners of the Junior Upton Trophy in 1957
Alberta Football Club in 1918
Jersey Gas XV 1924-25
Jersey Gas XV 1929-30
Jersey Gas XV 1930-31
Jersey Gas XV 1946-47

St Paul's all-conquering side of 1948-49, winners of the Wheway Trophy and Upton Cup

Oaklands FC 1948-49
A St Peter's FC side which played and won a match against a German side during the Occupation
The Paid Police football team in the 1900s. Was this their match strip?
New Street School team 1929-30
New Street School team in 1938
New Street School 1940
New Street School 1942
New Street juniors, 1932
Magpies FC
First Tower School team in 1952
St Lawrence School team in 1965 with teacher John Le Rendu
St Lawrence FC, 1940s
First Tower FC in 1923
Trinity Honorary Police football team in 1965
A 1923 Jersey Football Association winner's medal
Magpies FC 1938-39, winners of the League Cup, Wheway Cup and Bingham Cup. Back row: W Parris, E Le Quesne, W Pallot, G Le Riche, A Stuart, T Nobes, Capt Campbell, W Woodman; Middle: S Noel, W Penny, M Le Var, H Dorey, E Le Chevalier, E Hall, E de Ste Croix; Front: F Wright, T Newington, W Dauny, H Hughes, E Eloury
Magpies FC 1925-26. Back row: E Hall (secretary), W Cummings, M Ryan, C Mason, I Martin, E de Ste Croix (treasurer); Middle: A Martin, F Bourke, B Perree, P Bassett, S E Ahearn; Front: A Honeycombe, S Ahearn, C Beuzeval
St Helier Boys Juniors 1973-74
St Ouen's FC, 1933
Grouville School, 1971
Trinity FC, 1919-20
La Motte Street School, 1932-33
Trinity Juniors, 1974
Police football XI in 1914
Dairies FC 1943-44
A de Gruchy and Co's 1934-35 team
St Luke School XI in 1926
JMT football team 1929-30
JMT team 1931-32
JMT football team 1931-1932 from a postcard
JMT team
Beaumont beach footballers in 1936-36
St Peter's Football Club 1926
A Police eleven
Beeches Old Boys Under 16s, 1944