I once attempted to strike up a conversation with Mel Machin , it was a saturday morning following a pre season game at Stockport we'd gone to the night before , not sure why I was at Oakwell that morning but anyway Andy Liddell left the game on a stretcher and it looked serious .
So I asked Mel for an update , he didn't want to know , looked down on me I thought , very prickly and aloof , very strange character .
He got the sack near the end of the season , tough t itty you stuck up git .