You'll find the score at the end of the par. This one comes from 1958 ... the annual soccer/football/slanging match between teams from the Editorial and the Composing Room (or Newsroom as they used to call it). A fair game of rough and tumble and in the two teams faces many will remember and quite a few journalists who never stepped down to the composing room will never know ... Here's a list of the names, supplied along with the picture by Mr Tom Savage ... From left: W. Love (not Walter, but his brother Billy), Billy Jones, Linotype operator, John Cole (no introduction needed), Billy Oliver, Jim Savage, apprentice compositor, Martin Wallace, Johnny Maxwell, Newroom goalkeeper and at work usually typeset the main headline for front page, Sid McCombe, a lino operator who emigrated to Canada after this pic was taken and maybe because he missed an open goal opportunity, J. Clark, Derek Rice, an import from the Stereo Dept, Billy Martin, Jim Moore, a lino mechanic, T. Savage, apprentice compositor, Norman Stockman, lino/stone who became joint deputy foreman, Tommy Bennett, lino operator, Maurice Smyth, Billy Campbell, apprentice compositor, Adam Kirkpatrick, team medic, Eddie McIlwaine, Davey Gilliland, Barry White, the editorial goalkeeper, and Jimmy Boyd. The Editorial were in the white shirts; the opposition in the striped. The score was 2-1, for the Composing Room.
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