{"id":11968,"date":"2025-05-11T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:45:50","slug":"the-mean-machine-tvl-in-the-80s-how-good-was-this-teammy-late-oom-uncle-ismail-kola-was-a-hard-core-tvl-supporter-if-transvaal-lost-or-were-losing-he-wouldnt-talk-to-u-back-row-left-to-right-henr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/?p=11968","title":{"rendered":"The Mean Machine. TVL In the 80s. How good was this team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/426599925_750145900105258_7686626072264196938_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Mean Machine. TVL In the 80s. How good was this team?My late oom Uncle Ismail Kola was a hard core TVL Supporter. If Transvaal lost or were losing he wouldnt talk to u.Back Row Left to Right. Henry Fotheringham,Rupert Spook Henley, Vincent Van De Bijl,Cyril Mitchley,Ray Jennings,Neil Radford. Front Row L-R. Alvin Kallicharran,Alan Kourie, Ronnie Eriksen (Manager), Clive Rice, Graeme Pollock, Kevin Mckenzie and Jimmy Cook...and there was also Sylvester Clarke\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My late oom Uncle Ismail Kola was a hard core TVL Supporter. If Transvaal lost or were losing he wouldnt talk to u.Back Row Left to Right. Henry Fotheringham,Rupert Spook Henley, Vincent Van De Bijl,Cyril Mitchley,Ray Jennings,Neil Radford. Front Row L-R. Alvin Kallicharran,Alan Kourie, Ronnie Eriksen (Manager), Clive Rice, Graeme Pollock, Kevin Mckenzie and Jimmy Cook&#8230;and there was also Sylvester Clarke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My late oom Uncle Ismail Kola was a hard core TVL Supporter. If Transvaal lost or were losing he wouldnt talk to u.Back Row Left to Right. Henry Fotheringham,Rupert Spook Henley, Vincent Van De Bijl,Cyril Mitchley,Ray Jennings,Neil Radford. Front Row L-R. Alvin Kallicharran,Alan Kourie, Ronnie Eriksen (Manager), Clive Rice, Graeme Pollock, Kevin Mckenzie and Jimmy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-swoosh0018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14541,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11968\/revisions\/14541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}