Thomas Royston Vernon leads us out -
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21st September 1986 Adrian Heath dives bravely to head home a Kevin Langley cross in the last minute to ensure victory against United and move the Blues into second place in the league -
When this day was a big event starting at 11am on both channels -
I played at Holly Park that season 2-2 me with Prescot Town at the time. Alan Hampson was manager of South, he was on Evertons books in 50 & 51 but only got one game. (A lovely bloke from Prescot).
I played in the last season of the existing Lancashire Comb. up at Christie Park in Morecambe got battered
6-1, but we played under floodlights that night, I'm not kiddin' it was like the Bernabeu for me amazing,
I never got the chance again. Second half of that season I played for The County (Of County road L4)
Sunday Prem, Christ that was an eye-opener for the "Darker Arts". I was only signed on as County lost
players who played for Skem at a time when they couldn't take any chances with injuries.(FA Cup duty).
Terry Crosbie carried on playing for County as he was a goalie. But if memory serves, we lost Mansfield Whitehead & Moorcroft forever. Many times our professional players from Everton and the RS could be
seen at Sunday Prem games.
…that Sunday Prem was some league back in the day, soectators would be two or three deep around the edge of the pitch for the big games.
Terrific players, big characters mostly earning good money for playing on a Saturday but the referees were not as disciplined and you had to survive.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Might be wrong, but the only one who made it through to the first team there is the keeper Drrew Brand I think.
Just a few more lines on your wonderful column Joey. Eggs, just to say the most cash up here in Liverpool
I received was £3 per game of a Saturday or Wednesday night, but I was only on £18 per week as an
apprentice, so I was well pleased to get the extra. I knew lots of older players that got a good few bob
especially when the Northern Prem started, the Liverpool County Comb. expanded and of course the
Welsh Leagues. You mentioned about big characters in the game. Fat Harold (Hughes) I worked with him
in a factory in Kirkby and used to swap stories on mondays of the weekends games. I played against him
when he played for The Canada Dock in both the Liverpool Sunday league and Kirkby Premier league,
They played at Edinburgh Park. I remember the 3 deep touchlines and the linesmen had to encroach the
playing area about a yard to do his job, it was probably safer to play in the big games, as there was many a
scrap on the sidelines. I think the wives whinge and whine as to our whereabouts on both Sat & Sun most
of the year, took its toll.