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The story goes that Ronnie Allen (as Manager) asked his Chairman (Millichip) if we could go ahead and buy Cyrille from Hayes. The Chairman dithered, and Ronnie said "OK. I'll pay them the £5,000 they're asking myself!" This persuaded Bert to dip into his pocket, and the rest was history.
I remember Cyrille's debut v Rotherham in the League Cup: Cyrille had a blinder and scored twice, which had the BRE singing "Astle is Back".
I thought this is fine, but where are we going to play Dave Cross, who we'd just bought and was playing really well himself. What a luxury!