There you go John, you have sold yourself for the Frickley Publicity man............we will pay you in free beer, it that good for you

Would be a decent forward line with MacDonald, Jackson and South, just got all a non-league attack could
ask for, pace, skill, finishing power and some one good in the air and at holding the ball up.
Anyone any idea who the former Football League players who have applied are? Educated or uneducated
speculation will do. Being a Sheff U' fan I hope it's a former Bladesman. Might as well follow an Owl, we seem
to be doing it quite often recently - hope we follow them upwards of course.
Mr Marrow a former United reserve, saw him play a few times, okay but not first team material. Has he retired?
Haven't seen Big bad Billy for a long time, don't think football mangement is his thing anymore.

i think big bad billy is more into pub management these days blade.
hot tips to have applied include,blackwell,kendall,and heath(adrian not billy)

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Only allowed to drink one and an half pints a day on the injections and tablets I'm on, SMS.
Be more than I got from the writers, cannot even remember being thanked for doing it. I liked
Howard Kendall, didn't Blackwell once hit a Frickley supporter? Knows the non-league scene,
actually got a decent record as Blades' manager but the football played by his teams wasn't
vintage stuff, more like stale brown ale. Inchy Heath was a disaster at the Lane, still have nightmares
about the Port Vale game under his command.
Could get Blackies' identical twin brother, or both for the price of one.
The Cricketers, a pub Billy Whitehurst used to run, on Bramall Lane now reopened and doing good business
on match days, will make lots of brass tomorrow night.

I wouldn't mind it being Keith Edwards, loved him as a player, or Brian Deane, think he's coaching
kids in the Leeds area. Would say no to their Tony though, not the best ever forward to wear a
Frickley shirt. Think Danny Walsh might get more games under Edwards as he likes his golf.
What about Chris Waddle for an outside bet - great player.

Bill Whitehouse and his publican role got a mention on Michael Vaughans television documentary exploring how sportsmen handle retirement shown last week, Sporting Heroes: After the Final Whistle - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... l_Whistle/

It also included an fascinating interview with Herrol "Bomber" Graham.

You heard it here first, knows his stuff does that Finchley Tiger, he's Worksop's very own Wikipedia,and a nice guy may i add (for a Worksop fan)

Haven't spoken to my mate, Raynor (Worksop and Sheff Utd fan) for some time, a bit of a character. Seen
him at a distance at Bramall Lane and at the cup final. He does get to some matches, England ones away
too. Think he moved from Worksop last year or the year before. Seems to know just about everyone, including
SMS.

Oh Yes, he is a character, he used to come and watch Frickley from time to time as well, if Worksop were not playing, i remember bumping in to him on Sheff Utd's pre-season tour to Cornwall around 10 years ago.
On the 1st leg of the tour we played Bristol Rovers at Weston-Super-Mare. We were coming out of this nightclub around 2am, well more kicked out, after having some bother with the local yokals (it was funny) .. and he was hanging around the promenade. We asked where he was staying, he said "Down their on the beach"....and he wasn't joking either !!!.

I once saw him in Donny in mid-afternoon and asked him which match he was going to - think he said
somewhere like Hungary or Rumania only he didn't have a coat or any luggage. I was told he slept in a
Wheelie bin after the game. Flew from the airport at Finningley - Robin Hood or whatever they call it -
I hate aircraft of any kind and do not fly, I'm no good with heights.
He once went to Canvey Island to watch them play and said once there the supporters bought all his beer
and food and the programme, they were so impressed that he had travelled from Worksop to watch them.

Should have been there on the beach, SMS, not their only their if it belongs to them. Endeth the grammar lesson.
Another Raynor story is, I walked into the Little Plough in Donny after a Frickley match and saw him sat down. I
got a pint and joined him without looking who he was sat with. Just turned out to be the leaders of Donny Rovers
hooligan crew, one of whom had tried to recruit me in the past without success. Thought I might have to fight my
way out, had my fists clenched ready apart from when holding the pint glass - something which drew a remark from
one of the harder looking members. Luckily they seemed to know and respect Raynor and he told them some of my
history, including my fighting a considerable number of Wednesdayites on a train when about four jumped on top of me
and used their fists, one wearing knuckle dusters - I had a few cuts that night, but ended up sharing a bottle of whisky
with one of the attackers who was equally damaged. Another lad I hit got on the same bus as me to Scawsby, he had
two black eyes and a bust nose. Got some funny looks from my driving instructor the next day. Happened on the night
when HMS Sheffield was sunk in the Falklands War.
I went in the Matilda pub after the game against Rochdale and got talking to a pidgeon fancier, he as good as told me
not to get the train. But I had a return ticket and hate the X78 from Sheffield to Donny and didn't know the ship had been
sunk and that it would inflame the Wednesdayites getting on the train at Rotherham and that they would want to take their anger out
on me.

Raynor or Yan to the Worksop fans is still living in Worksop and everyone has a story about him.
He blagged himself into the TV interviewing area in the stadium in France when Argentina beat England in the 1998 World Cup and Trevor Francis covered for him to stop him being thrown out and then in the last World Cup in Germany he was crawling across a field to try and get in free for one of the England games before the Police arrived with dogs to end his little escapade. In Moscow when England lost a qualifier on the plastic pitch he bravely or insanely came out of the hotel to take on the Russian nutters who were sieging the hotel before returning a few hours later without a word covered in bruises.
He was a big mate of Jeff King the Canvey Island manager and owner due to his regular long distance support receiving England tickets from him on occasions.
Very quiet and unassuming Yan who ought to write a book about his exploits.

I was in that hotel in Moscow, but so were around another 2000 England fans, can't say i came across him...Saying that i wasn't daft enough to go outside again after we caught mob handed by the Russians earlier on in the night, i was sharing a room with a Donny fan who i didn't know.
He got a good beating on the floor in downtown Moscow where we were jumped coming out of a pub, but all through the night i could hear him moaning & groaning about his ribs hurting. My ribs were hurting with all the laughing i was doing..Another bloke who got a good hiding, who's a mate had a broken arm for 3 days !!, he coudn't get it checked out until we got back to the UK, No wonder it hurt.


After being chased by 4 Russians down the dual carriageway of Moscow, and nearly being run over by 2 x skoda cars & a Lada car, i thought it was best to retreat to the hotel, and just get blind drunk.

HAPPY DAYS

Thanks for the information bornagaintiger. Raynor/Yan told me he had moved, can't remember where he said but
it was one of the stops on the Robin Hood Railway Line. Think he might have moved in with a woman there. Saw
him with one in Sheffield at a few matches, which was a surprise as he once told a fellow Unitedite that he was not
interested in having a relationship of anykind and that he was just happy watching his football. Does not talk about
himself very often. Likes a drink and likes to travel light and to get where ever he's going early, known him get to
Chesterfield at around two o'clock when the Sheff Utd Res' match kicked off at seven.
Know he lived/lives quite near the Sandy Lane ground. Never known him talk about football aggro' but he does know members
of the BBC, United's mostly banished by the police, hooligan crew.

You are right Blade that Yan did move in briefly with a woman in Whitwell which is on the Robin Hood line and a wedding and a stag night were on the horizon but I heard he did not want to give up his nomadic football lifestyle, and who can blame him, so the relationship petered out and I believe he is back in Worksop.