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Lions in Print

Here's a collection of articles, press cuttings, match reports and programme excerpts about the Lions - as well as pages from the near-legendary publication that was the Clock End Times. Everything is in PDF format, which means you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.

My thanks goes to the members of the Clock End Times team who are hopefully pleased to see their work acknowledgeded on this site - Will Freeman, Tony Hinkley, Dave Blowes, Mike Ewer, Dave Annear, Kerim Salih, Ronnie Cee and others. I also thank Tony for sending me copies of the Lions Supporters' Club newsletter, Roar.

Thanks also goes to Vesa Pennanen who provided most of the newspaper reports and programme excerpts available on this page and Sam Alcock for the British Engine newsletter articles. The remaining content has come from my own archives.

Clock End Times

Clock End Call, Metallica Top 10, Unemployed Boozer's Rough Guide to Ice Hockey
In Off the Post
Talkin' Tactics, Short Memories or What?, Fera's Hidden Secret, Attenboro' To Search
Wayne's Adventures in Raider Land!
Solihull Investigates
Welcome to the Jungle (CET Remix), Cartoons, More Unemployed Boozer's Rough Guide to Ice Hockey (... or the Barry Smith column)

Now available are full issues of the Clock End Times which I've converted into PDF format. Thanks to CET Editor Will Freeman for sending me some copies of the CET that I was missing:

1993/94 Season: Issue 3
1993/94 Season: Issue 4
1993/94 Season: Issue 5
1994/95 Season: Issue 1
1994/95 Season: Issue 3
1994/95 Season: Issue 4
1995/96 Season: Issue 3 (the Lions had actually folded in March 1995)

Roar - The Lions Supporters' Club Newsletters

First ever edition of Roar
1987/88 Season: Unknown edition
1987/88 Season: Edition 1
1987/88 Season: Edition 2
1987/88 Season: Edition 3
1987/88 Season: Edition 6
1988/89 Season: Edition 12
1988/89 Season: Edition 13
1989/90 Season: Edition 1
1989/90 Season: Unknown Edition
1990/91 Season: December Edition
1990/91 Season: January Edition
1990/91 Season: February Edition
1990/91 Season: Summer Edition (I'm guessing on this one as there are no dates to give me a clue)
1991/92 Season: Unknown Edition
1991/92 Season: Summer Edition
1991/92 Season: Pre-Season Edition
1991/92 Season: December Edition
1992/93 Season: October Edition
1992/93 Season: November Edition (or thereabouts)
1992/93 Season: January Edition
1992/93 Season: February Edition
1993/94 Season: October Edition

British Engine Newsletter Articles

British Engine articles December 1990 - Hockey team tour scores £1,628 for Children in Need
June 1991 - The pride of Lions...
October 1991 - From Russia with skill
May 1992- British Engine to back Lions again
September 1992 - Life with the Lions
December 1992 - Big following for Lions
November 1993 - Fresh challenges for the Lions
November 1994 - Lions exit on high note

Newpaper Reports

Waltham Forest Guardian match report: Report on the Lions losing 2-17 to the Solihull Barons on 16th December 1984
Evening Standard January 1987: Short piece on Lions' plea for a new import following the Neil Shea fiasco
Waltham Forest Guardian September 1986: Article on Lions' win over Premier Division side Nottingham Panthers
The Recorder September 1986: Match report/article about the Nottingham game
National Press (The Times?): Brief mention of the Lions' game against Nottingham, written by Norman De Mesquita in a national newspaper
Evening Standard January 1985: Article about import Bill Watson, who'd broken his jaw in three places when playing against Peterborough on 27th January 1985
Waltham Forest Guardian 14/06/85: Article about Chris Leggatt joining the Lions from Streatham
Clock End Times in the Waltham Forest Guardian: An article about the birth of what would be the Clock End Times. Includes a photo of some very young Clockenders!
First Division Here We Come: Self-explanatory article from the Waltham Forest Guardian
Brief article and photo about beating Deeside 12-0
Waltham Forest Guardian article about beating Deeside: An match report about the Lions beating Deeside in a different match, the score being 9-8
Waltham Forest Guardian article on losing to Bournemouth: A match report about narrowly losing to the Bournemouth Stags 5-6
Waltham Forest Guardian article on beating Bournemouth: A match report about beating Bournemouth 8-5
Life With the Lions: Waltham Forest Guardian article about the Lions' imports Bill Watson and Will Fish living with coach Dave Wurthman and his wife, Jan
Evening Standard October 1984: Brief article and photo about the Lions thrashing Richmond 16-1
Waltham Forest Guardian 26/10/84: Article about beating the London All-Stars and the forthcoming game against Deeside Dragons
Waltham Forest Guardian 02/11/84: A selection of articles and photos about the Deeside game
Feature on Geoff Williams: Geoff interviewed by an unknown newspaper (probably the Waltham Forest Guardian) in December 1984, prior to a game against the Solihull Barons

Magazine Features

Scott Bonner on the front cover of Powerplay magazine 11th March 1995
Marc Power on the cover of Powerplay magazine 10th November 1990
Glen Moorhouse, Jon Beckett and Neil Stower pictured in Ice Hockey World, Vol 8, No 6
Article about Jaro Lycka from Ice Hockey World, Vol 8, No 6
Photo and brief mention of Steve James being hit by a spectator at Swindon, Ice Hockey World, Vol 8, No 6
Lions' game against Trafford Metros 03/10/03, with photo of Simon Wren, Ice Hockey News Review 16/10/93

Match Programme Excerpts

Captain's Column from 05/10/86: Written by Geoff Williams
Chas Sumner's column from 21/09/86
Ronnie Cee's column from 21/09/86
Ronnie Cee's column from 11/10/86
Yesteryear column from 11/10/86: Written by Peter Cook
Yesteryear column from 05/10/86
Yesteryear column from 21/09/86
Lions match programme introduction from 05/10/86: Written by Mike Grafton (Mike Ewer) when we played Telford Tigers
Lions match programme introduction from 11/10/86: Written by Mike Grafton (Mike Ewer) when we played Richmond Flyers
Telford match programme: Excerpt from Telford's match programme when Lions played Telford away
Streatham match programme from 28/09/86: Excerpt from Streatham's match programme when the Lions played the Redskins
Solihull match programme from 12/10/86: Excerpt from Solihull's match programme when the Lions played the Barons
Ali Rodger Player Profile: Also see the Player Profile page on this site
Jari Virta Player Profile: Also see the Player Profile page on this site
Match stats from Lions' game v Nottingham on 14/09/86