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

7 Apr 2014

As the countdown to this Easter's Tour to Hamburg begins, we thought we'd take a trip down memory lane and dig up some of the finest moments from years gone by...

Over the next ten days we'll show ten of the best Tour photos in the Club archives, beginning at No.10 with the first ever appearance of the OHAFC on South American soil, or, to be more accurate, sand. The tourists took their bow on Copacabana beach in Rio to take on the Flamengo futebol school, a group of Brazilian youngsters who, it would be fair to say, knew a fair bit more about the game of beach football than their enthusiastic but limited opponents.

That said, the Brazilians were fairly clueless when it came to defending against Bert Worthy's long throws...

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Pictured top row, left to right: Ed Thorn, Tim Dalton, Robert Worthy, Rob Webster, Nick Warner, Andy Butler, David Lederman

Bottom row: Jimmy Verdin, John Wyn-Evans, Paul Molloy, Quentin Baker, Rupert Hoffen, Charlie Tweddle