Thank you for the unsolicited plug, AZ! Yes Guinness Boy, I did end up sitting opposite the formidable presence of John Humphreys on Radio 4 when it came out. I think the fact that John is from Cardiff and Leigh Roose happened to be Welsh spared me the usual Humphreys hair-dryer treatment...
Thank you for all your kind comments. Yes, the image on the cover is from the Walton & Hersham game. In fact it shows Russell Perkins, a school teacher by trade, stooping to head them into the lead in the replay at the Goldstone. Clive Foskett, a joiner at the Natural History Museum, then went...
Greetings all,
Spencer Vignes here - journalist, author & the guy who writes most of the retro stuff in Albion's match day programme.
I'll cut straight to the chase. I've got a new book coming out on Thursday 18th October. Published by Biteback, 'Bloody Southerners' is about Brian Clough and...