Payne, Cyril ('The Chiel')
Cyril Payne, who wrote under the name of The Chiel, covered Exeter City for the Football Express from immediately after the Great War through to more successful times during the early 1930s.
Writing as The Chiel, as in the Scots word for fellow, chap or lad, Mr Payne took over as the primary Exeter City correspondent for the Football Express's first post-war edition in August 1919. Joining the paper from the Belfast Newsletter and replacing 'Rover' (Phil Barnes), who had moved to the Bristol Evening News, the new man reported on a final season of Southern League football before the elevation of the club to the Football League in 1920.
With major news stories in relatively short supply during the 1920s, save for the fire in 1925 that destroyed the main stand, The Chiel eventually found himself covering the drama of the run to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 1931 and the promotion near-miss in 1933. But, with the excitement of the final weeks of the 1932/33 season still to come, Mr Payne was promoted to a more senior position on the Express and Echo as he passed the Exeter City baton to Lionel Wotton.
Writing as The Chiel, as in the Scots word for fellow, chap or lad, Mr Payne took over as the primary Exeter City correspondent for the Football Express's first post-war edition in August 1919. Joining the paper from the Belfast Newsletter and replacing 'Rover' (Phil Barnes), who had moved to the Bristol Evening News, the new man reported on a final season of Southern League football before the elevation of the club to the Football League in 1920.
With major news stories in relatively short supply during the 1920s, save for the fire in 1925 that destroyed the main stand, The Chiel eventually found himself covering the drama of the run to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 1931 and the promotion near-miss in 1933. But, with the excitement of the final weeks of the 1932/33 season still to come, Mr Payne was promoted to a more senior position on the Express and Echo as he passed the Exeter City baton to Lionel Wotton.
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