Quote Originally Posted by lunaspie View Post
Having delved into Maggie's attic and had a good rummage round I have to take issue.
Barber made 5 appearances that season and the Aldershot game was the 7 th of the season,so I'm surmising he was almost ever-present until that game.
The incident happened not six yards from me.The stretcher was summoned and after one of those awful silences he was carried off with a broken leg.One of those things a 10 y.o. remembers from an otherwise dull nil-niler.
I sincerely doubt he was able to play against Oxford a month later.Nor could it have been Astle being substantially damaged,as he was sold to W.B.A. around then.
Official history book lists Barber as playing against Oxford on 17th October 1964, wearing no.11, though he had missed the 7 games before that after the Aldershot game on 12th September 1964, implying he had also got injured in the Aldershot game.
The book also lists Astle as playing against Aldershot as well as the next 4 games after that, Newport away being his last on 28th September 1964.
Where I've been able to cross reference, I've found The Official History does occasionally make mistakes so we can't take that as gospel but if the reports say the same thing then it will be correct. I'll have another look at the Aldershot report.