Holmewood were hard! I remember going to play their Sunday team expecting a tough match, but it turned out easy because their two best players had been locked up overnight by the police on Saturday and weren't released in time! Nice lads. But then our Saturday team's boast was that they had been banned from every night club in Sheffield for fighting ..... hmmmm!
Pooch, your ACL sounds a bit like my disc. They weren't really interested at the hospital because I wasn't a pro'. They did everything they could to put me off an operation. Ricky Heppolette had the same injury playing for Chesterfield at around the same time and was training in six weeks. My back still goes forty years later.
We were the first team to beat Queens Hotel when they came into the Chesterfield Sunday league. They were asked to leave the Sheffield League, because the other teams didn't like rushing all the way to a crappy pitch in Eckington and getting hammered of a Sunday morning. We beat them 2-1 at our ground and drew 2-2 at theirs with a last minute goal I'd probably have stopped on a decent pitch. (The centre of their goalmouth had a huge dip in it, a deflected shot lobbed up and over me and because I was going backwards into a hole I couldn't take off as normal to get it over the bar ....) They still won the league, partly because we also beat all their rivals for them! (To be fair in the match at Queens I did stop a penalty and I made the best save I think I ever made about ten minutes from the end when they were all over us!)
Pooch, your ACL sounds a bit like my disc. They weren't really interested at the hospital because I wasn't a pro'. They did everything they could to put me off an operation. Ricky Heppolette had the same injury playing for Chesterfield at around the same time and was training in six weeks. My back still goes forty years later.
We were the first team to beat Queens Hotel when they came into the Chesterfield Sunday league. They were asked to leave the Sheffield League, because the other teams didn't like rushing all the way to a crappy pitch in Eckington and getting hammered of a Sunday morning. We beat them 2-1 at our ground and drew 2-2 at theirs with a last minute goal I'd probably have stopped on a decent pitch. (The centre of their goalmouth had a huge dip in it, a deflected shot lobbed up and over me and because I was going backwards into a hole I couldn't take off as normal to get it over the bar ....) They still won the league, partly because we also beat all their rivals for them! (To be fair in the match at Queens I did stop a penalty and I made the best save I think I ever made about ten minutes from the end when they were all over us!)