Sunday 27 September 2009

Update

Well, not much activity to report from the lat week or so.

The interview and photograph of Charlie Booth arrived and was just about worth the money. Mainly becasue of the photograph. We had never been quite sure if Charlie Booth featured in any of the photographs we had of Gainsborough Trinity, and evidently he does not! He should have done as we have the 1887 Gainsborough News Charity Cup winning side with trophy, a team which he played in. But the player who is sat in his position and for a time we believed to be Booth is far too old and not him.

One of the strong parts of our research is the number of illustrations. Hopefully there wo't be much of a problem with copywrite on them. Obviously I will be doing my best to clear copywrite on as many as possible. There is a likely hood that in some cases we won't get it.

Putting faces to the names of the players is important and brings them to life. Hence why I am so pleased to get a photo of Booth. It is from his Wolverhampton Wanderers days 3-4 years after leaving trinity, but it'll be the best we get. It may be the only surviving photograph of him. Although there probably is an arsenal photo buried away somewhere with him in the team.

The interview was not as good, but did fill in a few gaps. And combining this with other research we should be able to get a fairly decent pen picture together of a player who really is lost in History.

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