08-08-2016, 12:57
The answer is Jim Bannister. I think he kept the Punch Bowl on Holywell Street.
He never knew it, but he was my hero for a time as a boy. Until I did this I hadn't realised he never got a game at Chesterfield, but I always knew he'd had to leave to get his career going. My dad ran the team he played with when he returned to amateur football and they'd only got good players ...... Chesterfield's full backs in 1950-2 when Jim was at the club must have been pretty decent to stop him ever getting a game.
He never knew it, but he was my hero for a time as a boy. Until I did this I hadn't realised he never got a game at Chesterfield, but I always knew he'd had to leave to get his career going. My dad ran the team he played with when he returned to amateur football and they'd only got good players ...... Chesterfield's full backs in 1950-2 when Jim was at the club must have been pretty decent to stop him ever getting a game.