Sports Argus, 9 Oct 1965

Within the next three or four years all Football League matches will be played at night, said Mr Norman L Smith, Villa Vice-Chairman, when he spoke at the Golden Jubilee dinner at the Sutton and District League at Drayton Manor.

Saturday soccer, he forecast, was on the way out and he prophesied that eventually many League matches would be played on a Sunday afternoon.

Guests at the dinner to celebrate fifty years of Sutton League soccer included Mr Denis Howell, MP, “Teddy” Eden, Sir Alfred Owen and the Mayor of Sutton Coldfield. In the picture (above) Mr Howell, Mr Norman Paulin and Mr Eden admire the Steel-Maitland Gold Cup which was given by Mr AD Steel-Maitland in 1910 when he was the league’s first President.  It was lost in 1913 but recovered by present secretary Stan Clives and gold-plated this year.