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SOUTH SHIELDS F.C.
The Football League Years
A Complete Record of a forgotten club
by George Thompson (Yore Publications)

After the embarrassment of relegation from the Northern League First Division last year. The Mariners can reminise on the days when Manchester United, Chelsea and Leeds came to town and were beaten.

Exile George Thompson has chronicled South Shields Football Club's years as a League side. George was given great assistance by former Shields official Bob Wray of Cleadon Village who loaned him photographs from his collection.

The book starts in the period 1908 - 1915 when Shields were a North Eastern League side and carries on after the Great War when Shields joined the Football League.

Relive Manchester United's defeat at Horsley Hill and the attitude of the United fans! Also the 5 - 1 drubbing of Chelsea in typically welcoming North East weather.

There's a full statistcal record of all games played, including the move to Gateshead, a Who's Who and a letters page.

A great read - highly recommended.

You will find Yore Publications on the web at the following links;
webvert.co.uk and yore.demon.co.uk

TROPHIES belonging to a South Shields footballing legend have been saved for the town.
. South Shields Museum and Art Gallery bought a gold medal and international cap worn by soccer star, Warneford Cresswell, which went under the hammer at Christies.
. Museum chiefs paid £483 for a gold medal awarded to Cresswell after he first played for England against Scotland in 1921 while still a South Shields player.
. It also secured his England v Wales schoolboy international cap, won in 1911, for £115.
. The museum will also be able to display Warnley's first full international cap, which has been presented to South Shields by his family.
. The club has decided to loan the cap to the museum until refurbishment work is complete at its Filtrona Park ground.
. The auction included 16 lots of medals and caps sold for more than £20,000.
. The former South Shields and England full-back's memorabilia from his top flight career during the 1920s generated a lot of interest.
. His league championship medal alone was expected to realise around £3,000, and it doubled that at £6,000.

. As well as Cresswell's relics, there was a number of other football artifacts up for grabs including shirts and programmes.
. A Christie's spokesman said: "There was a lot of interest in the Warneford Cresswell lot.
. "It went for a total of £20,146.
. "Obviously there was a lot of interest in his 14 carat gold league winners' medal which went for £6,00, but much of his other stuff went for above the expected price as well."

Glittering

. In a glittering career Cresswell played for both North and South Shields, Sunderland and Everton.
. During his time with the Toffeemen, he is said to have set up many of the goals for one of the greatest goalscorers of all time, Dixie Dean.
. After his career at the top he played on in South Shields, becoming a pub landlord, and still turned out for local sides at the ripe old age of 63.
. Cresswell - whose nick-name was Warney - was called 'the prince of full-backs' among the footballing fraternity at the time.
. He died in 1973 but still has family living in South Tyneside.