WE THOUGHT we’d heard the last of Pegasus football team when the former players held their last reunion.

How wrong could we be!

This picture, sent in by reader Winnie Nash, shows regulars at the Masons Arms in Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe’s, Oxford, preparing to leave for Wembley in 1951.

They posed for the camera before boarding what looks like a Drings of Oxford coach.

Mrs Nash, of West Way, Botley, Oxford, writes: “This was one happy coach trip to Wembley. There was plenty of singing and, of course, plenty of beer – those were the days when it was allowed to take drink on board.

“I hope some of the supporters are still around and remember this happy occasion.”

If the regulars were happy as they left Oxford, they were almost certainly even happier on the return journey.

Pegasus, a team of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates, beat Bishop Auckland 2-1 before a crowd of 100,000 in the FA Amateur Cup final.

The club enjoyed huge success and attracted thousands of fans, many of them from the Oxford area, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Two years after their triumph over Bishop Auckland, they were back at Wembley and this time, their victory was even more emphatic. They trounced Harwich & Parkeston 6-0, again before a capacity crowd of 100,000.

Oxford academic Sir Harold Thompson started Pegasus in 1948, with the aim of putting university football on the map.

He and his wife coined the name Pegasus from the universities’ mythological symbols – the centaur (a horse with a man’s head) for Oxford and a falcon (hunting bird) for Cambridge.

In 2008, surviving players attended a lunch and reunion at Pembroke College, Oxford, to mark the club’s diamond jubilee.

It was intended to be the final chapter in the club’s history, but clearly, memories linger on.