BD Sports weren't bad (in my day!).
Saturday's, I mostly played with Sheepbridge (Hope Valley, Sutton & Skeg, Chesterfield League, we moved round), but also had a season with Old Whittington in the Sutton and SkegbyPrem and the Glassworks in a strange enjoyable season. I turned down a couple of offers to go part-time pro' to stay playing with my friends.
Sunday's we had a superb defence with the Magpies (Cock & Magpie pub), we finished 4th in Div 1 behind Queens Hotel, Brampton and Grassmoor Boot and Shoe all who had teams of players mostly paid for playing on Saturdays. We got a win and a draw against all three of them ........ and lost to several sides far worse than us! But ours was an accidentally excellent defence - a good set of players just came together! Scouts from Burnley, West Brom, Notts County!!!! and a couple of others came to watch me. None of 'em liked me! Phil Tingay was playing for Park Rangers at the same time - they were mid-table, excellent footballing side, no killer instinct! Phil was older than me, but we played in the same cricket team and he was better than me at that by a long way ...... but I was a pretty excellent slip fielder.
I slipped a disc playing centre back aged about 25 and it took me about 10 years to get fit enough to even play cricket!
Saturday's, I mostly played with Sheepbridge (Hope Valley, Sutton & Skeg, Chesterfield League, we moved round), but also had a season with Old Whittington in the Sutton and SkegbyPrem and the Glassworks in a strange enjoyable season. I turned down a couple of offers to go part-time pro' to stay playing with my friends.
Sunday's we had a superb defence with the Magpies (Cock & Magpie pub), we finished 4th in Div 1 behind Queens Hotel, Brampton and Grassmoor Boot and Shoe all who had teams of players mostly paid for playing on Saturdays. We got a win and a draw against all three of them ........ and lost to several sides far worse than us! But ours was an accidentally excellent defence - a good set of players just came together! Scouts from Burnley, West Brom, Notts County!!!! and a couple of others came to watch me. None of 'em liked me! Phil Tingay was playing for Park Rangers at the same time - they were mid-table, excellent footballing side, no killer instinct! Phil was older than me, but we played in the same cricket team and he was better than me at that by a long way ...... but I was a pretty excellent slip fielder.
I slipped a disc playing centre back aged about 25 and it took me about 10 years to get fit enough to even play cricket!