During the Gillingham days we signed a player on a free in the summer window and then sold him for money in the same window without him ever playing for The Albion. unfortunately I can't remember his name or the other two clubs involved. Can someone help? It was very good business though.
The Romantic by William Boyd, I've enjoyed some of his other novels but this one I find very hard work. I've given up on Hide and Seek by James Patterson but it does have some football content which makes Roy of the Rovers seem realistic.
I'd add Colin Bell to the world class players in the England 1970 World Cup Squad. I remember every World Cup finals since 1958 , and 1970 was, to my mind, the strongest England squad in that time.
Eddie Spearritt in the bar on the train back from Walsall, most of the team were in there but it was Eddie that I chatted to. The Southampton team were also in there on their way back from Stoke. Sothampton had a coach to take them from Euston to Waterloo but our lot had to go to Victoria on the...
When I was at university in Manchester between 1963 and 1966 there were two student unions both with live bands on Saturday nights. One week I had the choice between The Who and Sounds Inc.I had seen Sounds Inc several times and they were a great band, at that time I'd never heard of The Who so...