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Club Honours with Tooting & Mitcham F/C
Athenian League Champions 1954/55,
Isthmian League Champions
1957/58, 1959/60
London Senior cup winners 1958/60
Appearances
Paddy Hasty scored 113 goals in 142 appearances,
Selected for the Great Britain football team in the 1960 Rome
Olympics played 3
games scoring 2 goals
Paddy was only one of five men to score a hat trick for Northern
Ireland’
s full
amateur side
While still in the Navy Tooting & Mitcham often would call
up Paddy to see
if he
was available. On one such occasion both the club and Paddy,
were accused of
breaking the rules of Amateurism. Arthur Slater the racing
correspondent of
the
Daily Mail (Robin Goodfellow) also wrote a weekly article on the
amateur game
and went on to write that Tooting had contacted Paddy who
was in Malta to
see
if he was available for the following weekend match. On finding
out that he
had
a 72hour pass (after duties Friday until first parade Monday)
the club paid
for
Paddy to fly home in time for the match with a return flight
that would get
him
back to his ship in time for first parade. This in the eyes of
Arthur Slater and
the Daily Mail was an act of professionalism by an amateur club.
The following
day other papers picked up the story but gladly it fizzled out
without any
action being taken.
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