Torquay United F.C.
Torquay United Football Club is an English association football club based in Torquay, Devon. The club participates in the National League, the fifth tier of English football, having been relegated from League Two in the 2013–14 season. They are based at Plainmoor and are currently managed by player-manager, Kevin Nicholson.
History
Formation to World War One
The original Torquay United was formed in 1899 by a group of school-leavers under the guidance of Sergeant-Major Edward Tomney. The newly founded club played its inaugural match against an Upton Cricket Club XI on one of Farmer John Wright's fields, which was situated at the top of Penny's Hill, on Teignmouth Road on the site of modern Parkhurst Road.
After a season of friendlies the club joined the East Devon League and moved into the Recreation Ground, their home for the next four years, Plainmoor being occupied by Torquay Athletic Rugby Club at this time in a reversal of the current situation. In 1904 Athletic secured the lease on the Recreation Ground from underneath United and Torquay and District League rivals Ellacombe took over the lease of Plainmoor leaving United homeless for the first time in their existence and facilitating a return to the farmers fields on Teignmouth Road, however the club was on the move again when the fields were sold to be developed into what would later be known as Parkhurst Road. United soon found another home, sharing with Torquay Cricket Club in nearby Cricketfield Road (a site still used for football in the modern day by South Devon League side Upton Athletic) for four years and during that time won their first honour, the Torquay and District League title in 1909.
The Gulls (film)
The Gulls (Russian: Чайки, Chaiki) is a 2015 Russian drama directed by Ella Manzheeva and starring fashion model Eugenia Mandzhieva in her big screen debut. Set against the backdrop of modern-day Kalmykia, it has been presented in various international festivals including the Berlinale and was awarded Best Debut at Kinotavr.
Plot
Unhappily married to a fisherman, Elza (Eugenia Mandzhieva) finds out she is pregnant just as her husband disappears at sea.
Cast
Release
The Gulls premiered at the 2015 Berlinale and went on to be screened at various film festivals including Edinburgh, Warsaw and Karlovy Vary. It was awarded Best Debut at Kinotavr.
It was released in Russia in October/November 2015, the first film about Kalmykia in Kalmyk language to hit theaters in 30 years.
Awards
References
External links
Podcasts:
The Gulls
Sky is overcast
Old man of the sails
Summoning to mass
Terns upon the rails
By some mystic means
Of changing gulls to kings
Old man had a way
So the seagulls sang
Chorus
Our hoard has been abducted by a common draft
Old craft of mine
And left us on a raft
Goodbye ye kings in the sky
Our stand has been abandoned by the rubes we crossed
Ships in the sky
And left us at a loss
Ye old craft of mine
Our vessel has been boarded by a common craft
Ships in the sky
And left us on a raft
So long ye old craft of mine
Our channels are abandoned and the craft is lost
Ships in the sky
Left with an Albatross
Cursed flock descending
Terns upon the rails
Charmed by instruments and charts
Compasses and scales
Din is overwhelming
Screaming mob will find
So as they have made us deaf
The old man made them blind
By some scheme or sorcery
The ship had taken flight
Capsized by the moon and strewn
Its wreckage through the night
See gulls all the same
Searching for the rails
Summoning in vain
Old man of the sails
Still they dive and sing
Of becoming kings
Old man now they say
Lives far below the waves
Chorus
So long, ye old craft of mine