tommytowne
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Joey Pritchard, Stan Storton and the goalie Jim Cumbes, who was man of the match, stopping Everton running up a cricket score.
....’cricket’ being the appropriate word, Cumbes a very useful first class cricketer and later Chief Executive at Lancashire CCC.
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Ewebanks were quite expensive in the days of Lino.......
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Well spotted. I wasn't clever enough to link the two when I posted.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
I think you will certainly be in the minority, although after all the furore I actually got to like it for the reason you stated.
Famously, once Jimmy had tucked away his football gear at the end of the season, he was donning his cricket whites, and playing County cricket, for firstly his home County Lancashire, then Surrey, Worcestershire and local side Warwickshire, taking 379 first class wickets in 161 matches, quite a record, before returning to Old Trafford to take over the Commercial Manager’s role there in 1984, being hugely successful in his time at Old Trafford, finally retiring in 2012.
....quite a few footballer/cricketers in those days. Arnie Sidebottam; Chris Balderstone (part of that Carlisle team that cost us a league title) et al.
Ian Botham in his later cricket career played Centre Half up North - Scuntthorpe for about 5 years or so.....
1977 Leicester 1-5 Everton. Andy King 2, Bob Latchford, Duncan McKenzie & Dave Thomas got the goals. Gordon Lee’s men would finish 3rd at the end of the season.
