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Walsall F.C. 1999 v 1961


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Daily Telegraph, 7th February 1998

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"Many individual players now have Internet sites dedicated to them - David Beckham, Eric Cantona, Diego Maradona, Tony Richards. In case you're wondering, Richards was "Walsall's greatest post-war goalscorer". His website contains a biography and reports from games - well, one game, actually, Walsall v Sunderland in 1961. There is one other report which reads: "In 1984, in Majorca (sic), Tony's son played alongside Glenn Hoddle and Graham Rix in an England v Spain match. The rest of the team consisted of holiday-makers and Spain were represented by the local amateur side". No doubt the future England coach showed them a thing or two. No? "England lost 4-2," says the report, "with both English goals scored by an on-loan Spaniard."

JERRY HAYES
(Thanks to Jerry for permission to reproduce this article)