When Labone got injured via westy coming out for the ball in the 1970s championship run in - & Bally was made captain for the run in - Westy was not happy Bally was chosen - he admired him as a player, but not to lead the team - there must have been a fall-out as thy both stated they would not buy each other a drink after that - the next season - Westy told the Catt to give Labby the captaincy back - The Catt refused - & most of the players when the season started badly blamed Balls captaincy - the dressing room was lost & ball sold by the Catt - who in fairness to Bally had given him a free rein of how to treat players - on Bally leaving Keith Newton stated it was a blessing & he reckoned that's why he was sold - good riddance he stated .....
Just something I read in my various books of the way things went - the Catt got blamed for breaking a young team up too early as well though - perhaps all he had to do was swap captains ?
Westy did fall out with the fans in a European game at home after having a mare & putting two fingers up to the home crowd & was dropped - @degsy mentioned it yesterday ....
Westy was a top class keeper - & what happened IMO he predicted - Bally should have been relived of the captaincy after we won the title - hindsight is a great thing though -
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