It's a long time ago now. Other notable events in 1954 include ...

Wolverhampton Wanderers win the 1st division football.

Winston Churchill reaches his 80th birthday in office as Prime Minister.

First linking of smoking and lung cancer.

Roger Banister breaks the 4 minute mile.

Elvis Costello was born.

Rogues celebrated his 50th

And Lord of the flies n Lord of the rings were published

Warrington v Halifax 1954 Cup replay at Odsal & the year I was born

..and of course Jackie Chan was born

Centenary of the sinking of the (Warrington, Bank Quay built) White Star Shipping Co, HMS Tayleur.

We were last crowned champions a year later

Yeah but apart from that.....

From Here to Eternity won the Best Picture Oscar.

Rather like our search for the title ever since.

I was two for twelve months.

The start of the season when we were last crowned champions. Other than that, not sure why this thread was started.

We've been waiting 22,435 days for this. Just 4 more to go

Aye, 'only' 13,452 for me. Or 10,206 days if we're counting from my first game. Whatever, the wait ends in 4 days (hopefully!!)

Just thought it would be interesting from a historical perspective.

Aye, come Saturday evening, it's a very long off season.
These type of threads keeps us going until TS puts an academy team out near Boxing Day.