TIMEWARP TIME... INJURY BLASTS FROM THE PAST...
Just come across an old Football League Review from 1967/8 (Vol 2, no 31). Fans had been polled nationally about the Football League's most unlucky players regarding injuries... Ian Callaghan of Liverpool topped the poll, but also on there in 3rd position was Allan Gilliver (whilst with Blackburn Rovers). A Blackburn fan wrote " He only had nine senior games and he had to have a back operation". The Millers signed him, not long afterwards, at the end of that season! Colin Viljoen (then at Ipswich Town) is also on the list in 5th place!
Some things never seem to change...
Additional - Allan Gilliver's cousin , Mick, was in the same year as me at Aston as a young teenager. Unlike Allan, he was only fairly little, and although I can remember him playing cricket, I don't think that he was particularly interested in football back then. Can't remember him ever being off school due to injury though!