.... and Bolton Wanderers

[MikeSB]

Cheers BarnsleyWhites - had me confused for a second with your name ...

Hope you also have a good season - after tonight, of course!

https://elitesportshistory.com/players/francis-lee/

Just scroll down a bit for the video to show how great FL was in his day and many goals scored on poor quality pitches that we never see today and wonder if players back then were more fit than people think when they compare them with today. I think they were but I am biased! He scored 15 goals from the Penalty Spot one season and was accused of falling deliberately in the area..

I was at Bolton in the mid sixties when we played them in the FA cup and Francis Lee was playing for them before he transferred to ManCity. Lee scored against us that day and think the score was 3-1 back then. It was a good day out otherwise...

[gazan]

and the other thing that Frannie Lee (Lee Won Pen) was famous for was his rotund shape.

[gazan]

Normally would have gone as can get a direct train to Horwich but I suspect we'll have a weakened team out
and there's no pay on the gate so my options are already ended (plus i'd be leaving it a bit late!). Going to
listen on channel 726 instead.

[BarnsleyWhites]

Now Franny was a quality player and it was such a shame when he suffered his cruciate injury on Boxing Day against Everton. I suspect the game should have been off really due to the snow and it took us ages to crawl to the ground in the car. There’s still conjecture about whether Southall could have prevented sliding into Lee as he chased into the box and it also cost us a big fee as Lee was all set to move to Wolves. He went on to be brilliant and how I wish we had him now? Great days and great players we’ve both had. I understand Murphy is coming back to you. I always rated him here but it wasn’t easy playing in Parkinson’s Neanderthal style. Hope he does well for you anyway.