Some top quality reminiscing from Reg and Normy there. Old football sounds like fucking roller ball or something. I love it!
I have of course voted for Fraser. Shay Given it could be argued, is possibly a better keeper, but you can hardly compare Given's 6 decent performaces in a Town shirt with 500 plus from Mr Digby, and only a handful of errors in that time.
I also voted for Digby by a whisker, but Downsborough was an excellent goalie in a different era, hard to compare. The old football was very dirty sometimes, but there were few sending offs, as the FA couldn't afford all those coloured cards.
It is easy to be boring with memories, but it is strange to look at old photos of our players in the late 40's and 50's and remember little details about many of them, but not much about the games. Probably because we usually lost!
One memory is of Jimmy Bain, a left winger. He was wiry, and tricky, and had a wonderful ability to cross even the heavy ball with height and to the right distance. Maurice Owen, the legend, headed a lot of those in, but he was not good at bundling the goalie in to the net or could have got more. Later years, Bain was still crossing them for the likes of John Skull, who ended up as a physio in Goddard Avenue.
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