I remember back in the early 70s we had a night match at Altrincham and Billy Sutherland rung me at about 5pm saying are you going in the car tonight I need a lift. Arriving at the ground Billy, Kenny Morris, Eric Welsby, & Johnny King piled in my car Les Rigby came over to me and said "Get um there in one piece" but not thanks mate lol. Sadly we lost 0-3, can you imagine that today, great days.
The fans mixed with the players in those days, either at work
or before the match at Springy Hotel or after the match in
the Supporters Club.
Meeting the players at Marine, South Liverpool,
South Shields and other Away matches.
Beating
Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup in 1977.
I think Jack Charlton was their Manager and
Maurice Whittle scored we was at the back of the goal and
watched the ball flying into their nets,
in front of a crowd of 13,000 plus.
Latics:
Brown, Morris, Hinnigan, Gore, Ward, Gillibrand, Whittle, Worswick, Moore, Whittle, Wright.