Quote Originally Posted by Johnny on the spot 1 View Post
Thanks for that 55 nice story, dad told me once he did play a practice game for wolves but Mr Cullis wrote a letter to my grandad to say that they wouldn't be needing to see him again , anyway a few weeks after that he played a game for us which we won 11:0 apparently & dad scored 9 to cut to the long & short of this story he signed for WBA after he signed Wolves came Back for him but all to late , & I have seen that second letter I actually have it somewhere,
Looking at his playing record your dad had a fantastic strike rate of almost a goal every two games in the top flight between 1951 and 1957 JOTS.

He averaged over 22 goals per season during the same era Derek Kevan was scoring at a rate of over a goal every two games as was Ronnie Allen........your old man must’ve been one hell of a player to have been a regular during his time there.

My dad played against Derek Kevan in a schools match when they were both 14 years old, dad was a Harrogate lad and Derek was 5 miles up the road in Ripon.

Dad was a very good schoolboy player but his side lost 7-0 and he said the difference was purely Kevan who scored all 7 goals.

I noticed that your dad did great things at Albion over a 6 year period but dropped away very quickly after the age of 26 and was playing for Sankey’s by the time he was 30.

Was this due to injuries etc?