Countdown to Tour: 10 Greatest Tour Pics: No.2

17 Apr 2014

A superb runner-up is this classic photograph taken in 1964 in Etretat, France - the venue for the first ever OHAFC tour organised by Alex de Grunwald.

OHAFC took part in a local 4-team tournament but owing to limited resources lost both games and so finished 4th. Taking part were FC Etretat, HAC and FC Saint-Jouin. The tournament was widely advertised throughout the village which attracted a large crowd, many of whom gave vocal support to OHAFC being valued visitors so soon after the end of the Second World War. Many toasts were drunk to Sir Winston Churchill. The hospitality received was outstanding and players were made extremely welcome at the post tournament celebrations.

Accommodation was made available at the local pension where limited bedroom furniture necessitated three members of the party to share a bed.

Roddy Hill (the then current Club Captain) was absent from the team photograph due to a dodgy oyster. He was unable to travel back with the team and Mike Richardson volunteered to stay a further two nights in order to drive him back to England.