The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163410   Message #4137374
Posted By: Steve Shaw
21-Feb-22 - 07:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Football (not the U.S. kind)
Subject: RE: BS: Football (not the U.S. kind)
Is Radcliffe really Manc though? I see myself as more of a floating voter in this regard...

I have cousins who I never see who are Manure supporters (as was our grandad) and another who has a Citeh season ticket. My dad was a Burnley supporter when Burnley were in their "total football" glory days (I should only have to mention Jimmy McIlroy). I had another cousin, younger than me, who died young, who was an Accrington Stanley loyalist, even through the fallow years. In the days when a lad could get into the terraces for a tanner I went to t'Gigg often. There was a lunatic at the back of the terrace who spent the whole match banging a huge great big bass drum. We went to watch t'Rovers a few times too (anyone remember Bryan Douglas, the greatest ever passer of the ball, and Ronnie Clayton, midfield maestro?) Happy days!