The Legend - Micky Worswick
MICKY WORSWICK TALKS TO YOTAC!
Just recently, I have had the privilege of getting the legendary Micky Worswick to promise to provide YOTAC visitors with some of his memories of playing for Latics in the non league days. I thought this would be a very good idea and provide the perfect platform to entertain, and hopefully educate, some of the newer Latics fans following our elevation into top flight football. Wigan Athletic AFC is a proud club with a fantastic tradition. Before the pomp and the glamour of the Premiership this club was one of the greatest non league clubs in the world and had some of the finest non league players play, with a huge amount of pride and not a little skill at the housing estate that was Springfield Park. Micky Worswick was one of the very best.
Says Micky, "It was a phone call from Les Rigby, just after he had taken over from Gordon Milne, that started it all off. He wanted to buy me from Chorley, for £200 I think it was, and make me his first signing along with my old mate Mick Taylor from Netherfield. It took me about two seconds to say yes to joining the finest non-league club in the country, and would you believe, I did not even discuss terms with Les. He just said, "don't worry it will be okay" and of course it was okay - for the next six wonderful seasons or so".
During a previous session of me badgering Micky to help to bring the past alive once more, I enquired as to how it felt to play with Kenny Morris and Billy Sutherland, among others.
Micky answered, "Among the players that you mentioned Bernard were Kenny Morris and Billy Sutherland, the best pair of full backs that ever played non-league football. Whenever I played out wide on the left, or the right, I always felt safe with those two behind me and with the legendary JK (he means the mercurial Johnny King - ed), being another 'minder' in midfield, not many opponents took the liberty of trying to kick me off the park! One particular incident regarding Kenny that I will never forget was during an away match at Boston when their back four had pushed our front men up to the halfway line and a ball from one of our defenders was knocked long over the top of us on it's way towards their keeper. But no one had noticed that Kenny was coming through on a full head of steam past us all deep into the Boston half. 'Surely he won't keep going?' I thought, as the odds were about 70-30 in the keepers favour. But kept on going he did and a few minutes later, after the goalie had been stretchered off to Boston Royal and Kenny had fortunately only been booked, he trotted back past us towards his right back position and muttered "well I wasn't going all that way for ++++ all was I" (Priceless)."
By now Micky was in full reminiscent mode and continued......
"I would imagine that the tunnel incident involving Kingy against Great Harwood is still mentioned from time to time in Wigan. Well I was coming up the tunnel at half time just behind John, and all I can say is that it was not pretty and on that note I think the incident is best put to bed. Kingy and Rogers (John - ed), as I am sure you are aware, were a bit like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, all action, on and off the pitch, never a dull moment and a million laughs along the way.
"Micky, obviously not one to forget the often unmentioned players of the time cited how one particular player and his team mates could rattle in the goals for Latics (from 1972 until the advent of Latics' election into the Football League) from all positions on the park, "There is one player who is maybe not as well remembered as some of the others of the time and that is Albert Jackson. He was a fabulous goal scoring centre half, he seemed to score headers from set pieces almost every game, in fact I came across a programme recently from the 1973/74 season and on 23rd February 1974 our leading scorers were Albert Jackson (18), Tony Marsden (18), John Rogers (13), and myself lagging behind on 10. What an incredible feat for a centre half! Oh and Billy Sutherland and Kenny Morris had scored half a dozen between them. Goals came from all over the park in that team. Bernard I'm off to pick my two grand daughters up from school but more memories will follow soon if I'm not boring you too much.
RegardsMick.
Micky, there is no way that you ever did, or ever will, bore any true Wigan Athletic (or Chorley) fan and here's hoping that we can all hear from you on a regular basis.
PLEASE!
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MICKY WORSWICK TALKING ABOUT LATICS CUP RUNS AND WAYNE ROONEY
The legendary Micky Worswick has been in touch again, as he promised. Hi again Bernard, As I write this (12-15pm Sat) you are no doubt inside the JJB waiting for kick off, so good luck and my fingers are crossed for a memorable victory.I thought it might be of interest if I wrote a few words about some of the various cup matches that I played in during my time at Springfield Park. I'll start off with our FA Trophy run in the 1972/73 season.
This was a marvellous time for players and fans alike, we played eight games in all before reaching Wembley and one of my lasting memories was winning the semi final replay against Stafford Rangers at Oldham Athletic's Boundary Park. And the party that followed it in the Springfield Park social club when we got back, which was filled to the rafters with our wonderful supporters. One thing that I could never understand about that cup run was the venue for the semi-final, Port Vale's ground, situated about ten miles north of Stafford, and remember this was not over two legs, the Oldham venue was a replay. A semi -final like that with a once in a lifetime chance for most of the players to play at Wembley should surely have been at a more neutral venue.
I think though that it probably made us even more determined to win through. Before carrying on with his e-mail he took a break to take in the Preston North End v Sunderland Championship clash and obviously returned home very happy after seeing 'his' Lilywhites stun the Black Cats. He was also disappointed about the Latics result and enquired as to how the Latics fared. I e-mailed back...... Thanks for more of those wonderful memories Micky.As for the United game, we played very well in the first half and Baines' goal was an absolute cracker! That lad is destined to play for England. He is certainly a better left sided player than Wayne Bridge and Latics, if they continue to struggle (just four wins from our last 19 now) may have a job to keep hold of him when the transfer window opens in January.
Alex Ferguson must have dusted down his hair dryer in the dressing room at half time because United came out for the second half and obliterated us. Oh, and for those people who think Wayne Rooney is over hyped - they are talking absolute rubbish. He was the best player on the pitch by a mile.Being in the Premiership is a dream come true to fans like me and on many occasions last season players like Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney, Edgar Davids, Steve Gerrard, John Terry - and Pascal Chimbonda mesmerised me. In fact Henry is without doubt the best player I have ever seen 'live'.I feel desperately sorry for people like Arthur Horrocks, Jack Sudworth and Ronnie Charlton, all people who deserved to live this dream that I'm living. Stalwart fans like the, err, loud Jack Meredith and little Ernie Claxton also deserved to see these days. However, I digress and can talk and write about Latics and their fans forever. So I'll pack it in now!
Preston seem to be going great guns and I suspect Roy Keane borrowed Fergie's hair dryer to use on his players later that day! Although Latics and Preston were rivals for many years after our election into the football league, it would be great to continue that rivalry in the Premiership. Just imagine, Wigan, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and Preston North End - almost half of the Premiership fixtures would be local derby games. All we would need then would be for Burnley to finally get their act together!Micky's first e-mail continued...Anyway, back to yesteryear and a mention for Graham Oates a very classy midfield player who scored in five of the nine ties during that FA Trophy run including the only goal in the semi-final replay. A mention should also go to the late Ian Gillibrand, only five foot seven but a giant in stature in our wonderful defence, Gilly was our brilliant sweeper before sweepers were invented! Unfortunately, we really did not perform as well as we could have done in the final against a good Scarborough team, but our fans were certainly up to their usual standard, cheering us on for the full ninety minutes.
There is nothing to rival the magic of the FA Cup, and during my time at Wigan, I was fortunate to play in some memorable ties, none more so than the ones during the 1977/78 season when we beat York City 1-0, Sheffield Wednesday 1-0, with the only goal of the game coming from Maurice Whittles fabulous left footed free kick, and then losing 4-0 at St Andrews to a Birmingham City team that contained the likes of Trevor Francis Jim Montgomery, Keith Bertschin and Terry Hibbitt. Birmingham at the time were in 16th place in the old first division and above the likes of Middlesbrough, West Ham United, Newcastle United, Queens Park Rangers and Leicester City. Despite the heavy defeat I am sure the Wigan fans who were at the game will remember how well we played and deserved better than the result that we got in front of 30,000 fans. The Birmingham City manager, Sir Alf Ramsey, came straight into our dressing room after the game. We were sat there, very disappointed, when Sir Alf's voice broke the silence and he said to us all, "Lift your heads up, you can be very proud of your performance and you are a credit to yourselves, to your club and to your fans, well played", and with that he turned and headed off towards his own team's dressing room. Words that I am sure all the players and management team of Wigan Athletic on that day will never forget.
More to follow if that's okay. Regards Micky Micky has been in touch again after receiving my Manchester United e-mail and he commented...... Hi again Bernard, it really is good to swap memories with you and I must agree with you about Rooney even though I am not a Manchester United fan or a Liverpool fan or a fan of any other Premiership club, apart from our beloved Wigan Athletic.Speaking about Wayne Rooney, Micky commented, The lad is a rare talent, and managed in the right way, he can become the best player since Pele, (but that is just my opinion). I am writing now after a couple of drinks on a Saturday evening at my local pub, The Plough at Eaves, so please forgive any spelling errors or bad grammar. I haven't seen Baines's goal yet but one of my mates in the pub said that it was sensational, so I look forward to seeing it later. Yes, it is wonderful for the club to be playing at the very top level and I agree with you that it is a shame that some of the people who put so much into the club in the past are not here now to enjoy it. I really envy you for having had the pleasure to see the likes of Thierry Henry play in your wonderful stadium. Oh, by the way our fourth stand at Deepdale is going to be built during next summer which will hopefully stop you lot from singing "Three stands, you've only got three stands".
Sad to report Micky, that the Preston supporters' chant of "Three stands, you only need three stands!", will ring true if the Premier League and the clubs within it, Latics included, don't get their act together and give football back to the fans by lowering their astronomical match ticket prices.It's been great Micky, until next time, I wish you and your family all the best
MICKY'S MANAGERS
Hi again Bernard,
I thought it may be of interest if I wrote down some of my memories of the managers that I played under at Wigan. I'll start with Les Rigby who as you know signed me for Latics and who was a man with the most incredible knowledge of non-league players that I have ever known. He was well known at every non-league club from the Midlands upward, due to the fact that he was out watching matches every night of the week. He was also a man with a wicked and somewhat sarcastic sense of humour. One of his favourite pre match comments would go something like this, "Right son, I want you to go out there and play like you've never played before, I want you to play well!". Maybe some of the fans reading this will say, "Oh yea, the old one's are the best", but I am convinced that it must have originated from Les.
Incidentally, that is also a quote from one of Fred Eyre's books, (Kicked Into Touch - an awesome read - Ed), who many of the older Wigan fans will no doubt remember managed the Latics reserve team for a time during the mid to late seventies and I had the great pleasure of playing for Fred when I was coming to the end of my time at Wigan. I am still convinced that had he not turned to media work and after dinner speaking he could have managed at a very high level.
After Les, came the splendid Brian Tiler who had been a very good player with Aston Villa and Rotherham (his home town club) and indeed started off his time with us at Wigan as player manager. However, this turned out to be a mistake, as his best days as a player were behind him, and to his credit he recognised this pretty quickly. From then on he concentrated on management and turned out to be incredibly popular with his players. His motivational skills in the dressing room were second to none and he sent every player out onto the park feeling ten foot tall. In fact reading some of his programme notes from his time at Wigan he gave praise, not only to his players, but to his chairman and fellow directors, and also, just as importantly, to the fans.
In fact, in the 1974/75 season under Brian we won the Northern Premier League by attaining a record number of points, 72 I think it was, and that is when it was only two points for a win. A lot of credit for this success was down to him. Unfortunately, Brian left the club to go to the USA and manage in the North American League. Brian eventually came back to England and was Managing Director of Bournemouth FC when he was tragically killed in a car crash travelling to the 1990 World Cup in Italy with his good friend Harry Redknapp, who was fortunate to survive the smash that also claimed the lives of four other people.
Finally, I played under Ian McNeil, who will always be remembered as the manager who took the club into the Football League, and I will always be grateful to Ian and the board of directors for offering me a full time contract for that first historic season, even though I was 33 years of age at the time and had a steady job with British Aerospace. When I told them that I would not be turning full time professional they kindly asked me if I would like to stay as a part-time pro, an offer that I immediately accepted, even though I realised that it would be unlikely that I would get back into the first team. Nevertheless, I think I must have created some kind of record for Football League appearances --13 minutes I think it was , as a substitute against Newport County.
Ian McNeil was a canny little Scotsman, and as thrifty as many of his countrymen. I remember him taking us on a short pre season tour to Scotland where we were to be based in Edinburgh. Anyway, on the way up the M6 on the club coach Ian was asked about the accommodation that he had booked for us, "Well", he said, "I can tell you that it is a nice wee place and there are 15 singles for the players. On hearing this some of the younger players were rubbing their hands in anticipation of going on the pull in Edinburgh that night and maybe bringing some bonny Scots lassie back to their own room. Well sure enough the coach pulled up outside the hotel which looked tidy enough and once inside we were pointed in the direction of our accommodation, and sure enough 15 single beds it was. All in the same bloody dormitory! The wee Scotsman also had a warped sense of humour.
Regards Mickey
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Just recently, I have had the privilege of getting the legendary Micky Worswick to promise to provide YOTAC visitors with some of his memories of playing for Latics in the non league days. I thought this would be a very good idea and provide the perfect platform to entertain, and hopefully educate, some of the newer Latics fans following our elevation into top flight football. Wigan Athletic AFC is a proud club with a fantastic tradition. Before the pomp and the glamour of the Premiership this club was one of the greatest non league clubs in the world and had some of the finest non league players play, with a huge amount of pride and not a little skill at the housing estate that was Springfield Park. Micky Worswick was one of the very best.
Says Micky, "It was a phone call from Les Rigby, just after he had taken over from Gordon Milne, that started it all off. He wanted to buy me from Chorley, for £200 I think it was, and make me his first signing along with my old mate Mick Taylor from Netherfield. It took me about two seconds to say yes to joining the finest non-league club in the country, and would you believe, I did not even discuss terms with Les. He just said, "don't worry it will be okay" and of course it was okay - for the next six wonderful seasons or so".
During a previous session of me badgering Micky to help to bring the past alive once more, I enquired as to how it felt to play with Kenny Morris and Billy Sutherland, among others.
Micky answered, "Among the players that you mentioned Bernard were Kenny Morris and Billy Sutherland, the best pair of full backs that ever played non-league football. Whenever I played out wide on the left, or the right, I always felt safe with those two behind me and with the legendary JK (he means the mercurial Johnny King - ed), being another 'minder' in midfield, not many opponents took the liberty of trying to kick me off the park! One particular incident regarding Kenny that I will never forget was during an away match at Boston when their back four had pushed our front men up to the halfway line and a ball from one of our defenders was knocked long over the top of us on it's way towards their keeper. But no one had noticed that Kenny was coming through on a full head of steam past us all deep into the Boston half. 'Surely he won't keep going?' I thought, as the odds were about 70-30 in the keepers favour. But kept on going he did and a few minutes later, after the goalie had been stretchered off to Boston Royal and Kenny had fortunately only been booked, he trotted back past us towards his right back position and muttered "well I wasn't going all that way for ++++ all was I" (Priceless)."
By now Micky was in full reminiscent mode and continued......
"I would imagine that the tunnel incident involving Kingy against Great Harwood is still mentioned from time to time in Wigan. Well I was coming up the tunnel at half time just behind John, and all I can say is that it was not pretty and on that note I think the incident is best put to bed. Kingy and Rogers (John - ed), as I am sure you are aware, were a bit like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, all action, on and off the pitch, never a dull moment and a million laughs along the way.
"Micky, obviously not one to forget the often unmentioned players of the time cited how one particular player and his team mates could rattle in the goals for Latics (from 1972 until the advent of Latics' election into the Football League) from all positions on the park, "There is one player who is maybe not as well remembered as some of the others of the time and that is Albert Jackson. He was a fabulous goal scoring centre half, he seemed to score headers from set pieces almost every game, in fact I came across a programme recently from the 1973/74 season and on 23rd February 1974 our leading scorers were Albert Jackson (18), Tony Marsden (18), John Rogers (13), and myself lagging behind on 10. What an incredible feat for a centre half! Oh and Billy Sutherland and Kenny Morris had scored half a dozen between them. Goals came from all over the park in that team. Bernard I'm off to pick my two grand daughters up from school but more memories will follow soon if I'm not boring you too much.
RegardsMick.
Micky, there is no way that you ever did, or ever will, bore any true Wigan Athletic (or Chorley) fan and here's hoping that we can all hear from you on a regular basis.
PLEASE!
Got an opinion?
MICKY WORSWICK TALKING ABOUT LATICS CUP RUNS AND WAYNE ROONEY
The legendary Micky Worswick has been in touch again, as he promised. Hi again Bernard, As I write this (12-15pm Sat) you are no doubt inside the JJB waiting for kick off, so good luck and my fingers are crossed for a memorable victory.I thought it might be of interest if I wrote a few words about some of the various cup matches that I played in during my time at Springfield Park. I'll start off with our FA Trophy run in the 1972/73 season.
This was a marvellous time for players and fans alike, we played eight games in all before reaching Wembley and one of my lasting memories was winning the semi final replay against Stafford Rangers at Oldham Athletic's Boundary Park. And the party that followed it in the Springfield Park social club when we got back, which was filled to the rafters with our wonderful supporters. One thing that I could never understand about that cup run was the venue for the semi-final, Port Vale's ground, situated about ten miles north of Stafford, and remember this was not over two legs, the Oldham venue was a replay. A semi -final like that with a once in a lifetime chance for most of the players to play at Wembley should surely have been at a more neutral venue.
I think though that it probably made us even more determined to win through. Before carrying on with his e-mail he took a break to take in the Preston North End v Sunderland Championship clash and obviously returned home very happy after seeing 'his' Lilywhites stun the Black Cats. He was also disappointed about the Latics result and enquired as to how the Latics fared. I e-mailed back...... Thanks for more of those wonderful memories Micky.As for the United game, we played very well in the first half and Baines' goal was an absolute cracker! That lad is destined to play for England. He is certainly a better left sided player than Wayne Bridge and Latics, if they continue to struggle (just four wins from our last 19 now) may have a job to keep hold of him when the transfer window opens in January.
Alex Ferguson must have dusted down his hair dryer in the dressing room at half time because United came out for the second half and obliterated us. Oh, and for those people who think Wayne Rooney is over hyped - they are talking absolute rubbish. He was the best player on the pitch by a mile.Being in the Premiership is a dream come true to fans like me and on many occasions last season players like Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney, Edgar Davids, Steve Gerrard, John Terry - and Pascal Chimbonda mesmerised me. In fact Henry is without doubt the best player I have ever seen 'live'.I feel desperately sorry for people like Arthur Horrocks, Jack Sudworth and Ronnie Charlton, all people who deserved to live this dream that I'm living. Stalwart fans like the, err, loud Jack Meredith and little Ernie Claxton also deserved to see these days. However, I digress and can talk and write about Latics and their fans forever. So I'll pack it in now!
Preston seem to be going great guns and I suspect Roy Keane borrowed Fergie's hair dryer to use on his players later that day! Although Latics and Preston were rivals for many years after our election into the football league, it would be great to continue that rivalry in the Premiership. Just imagine, Wigan, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and Preston North End - almost half of the Premiership fixtures would be local derby games. All we would need then would be for Burnley to finally get their act together!Micky's first e-mail continued...Anyway, back to yesteryear and a mention for Graham Oates a very classy midfield player who scored in five of the nine ties during that FA Trophy run including the only goal in the semi-final replay. A mention should also go to the late Ian Gillibrand, only five foot seven but a giant in stature in our wonderful defence, Gilly was our brilliant sweeper before sweepers were invented! Unfortunately, we really did not perform as well as we could have done in the final against a good Scarborough team, but our fans were certainly up to their usual standard, cheering us on for the full ninety minutes.
There is nothing to rival the magic of the FA Cup, and during my time at Wigan, I was fortunate to play in some memorable ties, none more so than the ones during the 1977/78 season when we beat York City 1-0, Sheffield Wednesday 1-0, with the only goal of the game coming from Maurice Whittles fabulous left footed free kick, and then losing 4-0 at St Andrews to a Birmingham City team that contained the likes of Trevor Francis Jim Montgomery, Keith Bertschin and Terry Hibbitt. Birmingham at the time were in 16th place in the old first division and above the likes of Middlesbrough, West Ham United, Newcastle United, Queens Park Rangers and Leicester City. Despite the heavy defeat I am sure the Wigan fans who were at the game will remember how well we played and deserved better than the result that we got in front of 30,000 fans. The Birmingham City manager, Sir Alf Ramsey, came straight into our dressing room after the game. We were sat there, very disappointed, when Sir Alf's voice broke the silence and he said to us all, "Lift your heads up, you can be very proud of your performance and you are a credit to yourselves, to your club and to your fans, well played", and with that he turned and headed off towards his own team's dressing room. Words that I am sure all the players and management team of Wigan Athletic on that day will never forget.
More to follow if that's okay. Regards Micky Micky has been in touch again after receiving my Manchester United e-mail and he commented...... Hi again Bernard, it really is good to swap memories with you and I must agree with you about Rooney even though I am not a Manchester United fan or a Liverpool fan or a fan of any other Premiership club, apart from our beloved Wigan Athletic.Speaking about Wayne Rooney, Micky commented, The lad is a rare talent, and managed in the right way, he can become the best player since Pele, (but that is just my opinion). I am writing now after a couple of drinks on a Saturday evening at my local pub, The Plough at Eaves, so please forgive any spelling errors or bad grammar. I haven't seen Baines's goal yet but one of my mates in the pub said that it was sensational, so I look forward to seeing it later. Yes, it is wonderful for the club to be playing at the very top level and I agree with you that it is a shame that some of the people who put so much into the club in the past are not here now to enjoy it. I really envy you for having had the pleasure to see the likes of Thierry Henry play in your wonderful stadium. Oh, by the way our fourth stand at Deepdale is going to be built during next summer which will hopefully stop you lot from singing "Three stands, you've only got three stands".
Sad to report Micky, that the Preston supporters' chant of "Three stands, you only need three stands!", will ring true if the Premier League and the clubs within it, Latics included, don't get their act together and give football back to the fans by lowering their astronomical match ticket prices.It's been great Micky, until next time, I wish you and your family all the best
MICKY'S MANAGERS
Hi again Bernard,
I thought it may be of interest if I wrote down some of my memories of the managers that I played under at Wigan. I'll start with Les Rigby who as you know signed me for Latics and who was a man with the most incredible knowledge of non-league players that I have ever known. He was well known at every non-league club from the Midlands upward, due to the fact that he was out watching matches every night of the week. He was also a man with a wicked and somewhat sarcastic sense of humour. One of his favourite pre match comments would go something like this, "Right son, I want you to go out there and play like you've never played before, I want you to play well!". Maybe some of the fans reading this will say, "Oh yea, the old one's are the best", but I am convinced that it must have originated from Les.
Incidentally, that is also a quote from one of Fred Eyre's books, (Kicked Into Touch - an awesome read - Ed), who many of the older Wigan fans will no doubt remember managed the Latics reserve team for a time during the mid to late seventies and I had the great pleasure of playing for Fred when I was coming to the end of my time at Wigan. I am still convinced that had he not turned to media work and after dinner speaking he could have managed at a very high level.
After Les, came the splendid Brian Tiler who had been a very good player with Aston Villa and Rotherham (his home town club) and indeed started off his time with us at Wigan as player manager. However, this turned out to be a mistake, as his best days as a player were behind him, and to his credit he recognised this pretty quickly. From then on he concentrated on management and turned out to be incredibly popular with his players. His motivational skills in the dressing room were second to none and he sent every player out onto the park feeling ten foot tall. In fact reading some of his programme notes from his time at Wigan he gave praise, not only to his players, but to his chairman and fellow directors, and also, just as importantly, to the fans.
In fact, in the 1974/75 season under Brian we won the Northern Premier League by attaining a record number of points, 72 I think it was, and that is when it was only two points for a win. A lot of credit for this success was down to him. Unfortunately, Brian left the club to go to the USA and manage in the North American League. Brian eventually came back to England and was Managing Director of Bournemouth FC when he was tragically killed in a car crash travelling to the 1990 World Cup in Italy with his good friend Harry Redknapp, who was fortunate to survive the smash that also claimed the lives of four other people.
Finally, I played under Ian McNeil, who will always be remembered as the manager who took the club into the Football League, and I will always be grateful to Ian and the board of directors for offering me a full time contract for that first historic season, even though I was 33 years of age at the time and had a steady job with British Aerospace. When I told them that I would not be turning full time professional they kindly asked me if I would like to stay as a part-time pro, an offer that I immediately accepted, even though I realised that it would be unlikely that I would get back into the first team. Nevertheless, I think I must have created some kind of record for Football League appearances --13 minutes I think it was , as a substitute against Newport County.
Ian McNeil was a canny little Scotsman, and as thrifty as many of his countrymen. I remember him taking us on a short pre season tour to Scotland where we were to be based in Edinburgh. Anyway, on the way up the M6 on the club coach Ian was asked about the accommodation that he had booked for us, "Well", he said, "I can tell you that it is a nice wee place and there are 15 singles for the players. On hearing this some of the younger players were rubbing their hands in anticipation of going on the pull in Edinburgh that night and maybe bringing some bonny Scots lassie back to their own room. Well sure enough the coach pulled up outside the hotel which looked tidy enough and once inside we were pointed in the direction of our accommodation, and sure enough 15 single beds it was. All in the same bloody dormitory! The wee Scotsman also had a warped sense of humour.
Regards Mickey
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