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in the fifty hastings played walthamstow in the fa cup hastings won 4/1 the game was live on bbc tv i belive it was the first cup game to be tilevised my father took me to one of his workmate house to watch the game



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I could be wrong, but are you getting confused with the Hounslow Town match from 1954.


Hastings won 4-2, so was a similar result and similar sounding team name.

 

I have attached a newspaper cutting showing how controversial this was at the time.



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Television in the 1950’s …..OK for some.

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VERNON YOU ARE RIGHT AS SOON AS IPUT IT INEW IT WAS WRONG

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