Eddie Thomas

Eddie Thomas MBE (27 July 1926 – 2 June 1997), was a Welsh boxing champion and boxing manager.

Thomas was born in Merthyr Tydfil. After a highly successful amateur boxing career, he turned professional in 1946. He won the Welsh welterweight title in 1948, the British welterweight title in 1949, and the European welterweight title in 1951, retaining it for only four months. He held the British Empire title for a period in the same year.

Retiring in 1954, he became the manager of two of Britain's most successful boxing champions, Howard Winstone and Ken Buchanan.

Thomas had a successful business career for a time, but in 1994 he was forced to resign as Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.

A BBC TV programme, Champ from Colliers Row, was made about him in 1997, shortly after his death.

See also

  • List of British welterweight boxing champions
  • Sources

  • Summary of boxing career
  • External links

  • Old Merthyr Tydfil: Eddie Thomas - Merthyr Mayor - Historical Photographs of Eddie Thomas, during his period as Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.
  • List of Coronation Street characters (1964)

    Coronation Street is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by writer Tony Warren, Coronation Street first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in the show's fifth year, by order of first appearance.

    In what remains one of the serial's most dramatic and influential years to date, 1964 saw no less than four producers take the helm of the show. Apart from a short month-long break in which original producer Stuart Latham took over for one last stint, Margaret Morris presided over Coronation Street until May, in which she introduced Irma Ogden (Sandra Gough) in late January. Radical young producer Tim Aspinall took the reins in May and quickly made his mark by writing out several characters including Frank Barlow, Harry and Concepta Hewitt, Jerry and Myra Booth and most controversially, Martha Longhurst, a favourite with viewers who Aspinall chose to kill off in his very first episode. A week later, Aspinall introduced a new regular in the form of Charlie Moffitt (Gordon Rollings).

    Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1931)

    Edwin Henry Charles "Eddie" Thomas (born 9 November 1931) is a retired English footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Southampton in the early 1950s.

    Football career

    Thomas was born in Swindon, Wiltshire where he became an apprentice engineer with British Rail at the Swindon Works. Whilst playing for the works team, he caught the eye of a scout from Southampton of the Football League Second Division, joining them as an amateur in 1949.

    He made his reserve team debut on 17 December 1949, displacing Len Stansbridge, and over the next year, he and Stansbridge vied for the role of second choice 'keeper behind Scottish international Ian Black. Black moved to Fulham in July 1950, with Northern Irish international Hugh Kelly joining the Saints in exchange. On 7 October 1950, Kelly was called into the Northern Irish team for a match against England and manager Sid Cann promoted Thomas to the first-team for a match against Birmingham City. At a month before his 18th birthday, Thomas thus became Southampton's youngest-ever first-team goalkeeper, until the debut of Bob Charles in 1959. Although the match was lost 2–0, Thomas was not deemed to be at fault for either of the goals.

    Eddie Thomas (Australian footballer)

    Eddie Thomas (24 June 1891 – 16 January 1953) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).


    Notes

    External links

  • Eddie Thomas's statistics from AFL Tables
  • Eddie Thomas's profile at Collingwood Forever
  • Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1933)

    Edward "Eddie" Thomas (23 October 1933 – 12 November 2003) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers, Derby County, Everton, Leyton Orient and Swansea Town.

    Thomas was signed for Derby by manager Tim Ward, and equalled a club record by scoring in each of his first six games for Derby in 1964.

    External links

  • Sourced from The English National Football Archive (Subscription required)

  • Edward Thomas

    Edward Thomas may refer to:

    Sport

  • Edward Thomas (gridiron football) (born 1974), American gridiron football player
  • Edward Thomas (rower), Australian rower at the 1924 Olympics
  • Edward Thomas (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s and '20s for Wales, Oldham, and Wakefield Trinity
  • Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1933) (1933–2003), English footballer with Everton, Blackburn Rovers, Swansea Town and Derby County
  • Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1931), English footballer with Southampton
  • Eddie Thomas (Australian footballer) (1891–1953), Australian rules footballer with Collingwood
  • Eddie Thomas (1926–1997), Welsh boxer
  • Ed Thomas (1950–2009), American football coach
  • Writers

  • Edward Thomas (poet) (1878–1917), Anglo-Welsh poet and journalist
  • Edward J. Thomas (1869–1958), librarian and author of several books on the history of Buddhism
  • Military

  • Edward Thomas (British Army officer) (1915–1999), World War II Military Cross recipient and temporary brigadier
  • Edward Lloyd Thomas (1825–1898), Confederate American Civil War general
  • Podcasts:

    Eddie Thomas

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    The Monster

    by: Roy Harper

    Now there's no one left to vote for
    And there's very rarely been
    No more voices of the people
    G (F#) Em
    Who are not of the machine
    And the giant public monster
    Gathering summer's silent scream
    Swearing blind he's not been seen
    Hiding bones that everyone sees
    [Chorus]:
    And everybody knows
    That everybody goes
    G (F#) Em D
    In - Sa - ne
    The revolution's always over
    The apocalypse is now
    All hands are on the keyboard
    Hardly any on the plough
    The new government's the old one
    Same old handbags at the helm
    Lapsing back into religion
    Letting voices overwhelm
    [Chorus]
    It got crazy on the frontline
    Manning barricades to wait
    On the motherboards of freedom
    For the hordes of solid state
    Long before the menu
    Was having problems with the date
    And the mice became the men
    Far too late
    [Chorus]
    Now my church is in the dungeon
    Down the fourteenth corridor
    Virtual guards surround me
    With electronic walls
    We're at the level of playstation
    Where the rich become the poor
    On their bended knees they're praying
    For more, so much more . .
    [Chorus]
    No there's no one left to vote for
    Only fools to vote against
    The refugees have all surrended
    The perimeter's been fenced
    Six billion dreamers are all banged up
    By the screment of dough
    And the new religion
    of the W.T.O
    [Chorus]
    I have given up the memory
    Of my years of dreaming on
    To be as silent as I'm angry
    About this trip through babylon
    I feel the building of the final
    Psyche of the snake
    Make a killig every lunchtime
    Sleep it off until I wake




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