Quote Originally Posted by ManxRam View Post
Was a half decent side Andy and yet I think I was the only lad who regularly played at district/county level from our year. Ilkeston dominated the district side and the county side was made up of lads from Newhall to New Mills.

I'd know lads in your school side I reckon.
God I'm rubbish with names - Trev Ellis? 'Crow' Powdrill? Paul Gascoin? Whichever one of the Glenn brothers was in my year? I was the only 'swot' that got anywhere near the year first team and then only occasionally, and as a swot I wasn't especially popular, but even the second team were pretty ****-hot, I recall we had to forfeit a county semi one year when we were drawn against the first team. All year first teams got a brand new man-made-fibre yellow kit around our third year, second team wore sixties-era (WBA colours) kit, which assumed almost unbearable weight when it rained, maybe some of the oldies here remember kit like that.