Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
Begs the question, did Duncan Edwards, Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John, Bobby Charlton or Gordon Banks ever play against Notts for the reserves? (and if so, at Meadow Lane?)

I think pretty much all of the other mega stars of the 1960s, 70s and 80s faced Notts in first team games at some point in their career. Denis Law scored against us for Huddersfield, Jack Charlton played against us for Leeds in the 50s, Martin Peters for Norwich, Roger Hunt for Bolton, George Best and Bobby Moore for Fulham, Alan Ball for Southampton.

Not quite a mega star, but one of the most fascinating characters of the 60s was Peter Knowles who would be another one that could have only faced Notts in a reserve game.
I remember looking forward to Gordon Banks playing against us for Stoke in the League Cup (31 October 1972) but he had the car accident when he lost his eye 9 days earlier.

Interestingly, talking about the greats playing against us, we beat Stoke 3 - 1 then in the next round we lost 1 - 3 to Chelsea and Peter Osgood scored for us (og).