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NAME Mark Thomas
FIRST HOME GAME EVER SEEN:Early-mid 60s? - Les Dagger was playing with (George?) Rollo in goal.
FIRST AWAY GAME EVER SEEN Wrexham away 1966-67 - Arthur Peat drilled one into bottom corner from 20 yards to get us a 1-1 draw.
BEST GAME
EVER SEEN Slaughtering Stockport
County 5-0 in Div 3 at Haig Ave Friday Oct 25 1968. Bliss and glory.
WORST GAME EVER SEEN : A 4-0 defeat at home to Bradford City in the mid-late 70s. Never felt lower than that - you could feel the end approaching
BEST OCCASION Seeing the side walk out at Wembley. What an achievement.
WORST
OCCASION Failure to get
re-elected to the league. Sat catatonic for an entire afternoon by a phone box
on Anglesey after dad broke news.
FAVOURITE EVER PLAYER League, George
Andrews, Tommy O'Neill, NPL Kevin Mooney and Derek Goulding, Conf Martin
Clarke, a true club man and Steve Whitehall, skill and brains.
FUNNIEST MOMENT WATCHING SFC Watching my brother (trainee doctor) vault onto the pitch at the Blowick End telling ref that Crewe's keeper (Willy Mailey?) was unfit to continue after clash of heads. We won 4-0.
BEST GOAL SEEN SCORED BY SOUTHPORT PLAYER Every Port goal is, briefly, the best goal I've ever seen. Even Pell at Halifax is one of the best I've ever seen
BEST GROUND VISITED : Wembley.ANECDOTES: : Borussia MG once trained at Haig Ave prior to a Euro tie at Everton. Their keeper let me take penalties at him. Third go, i got one into the bottom corner at the Brick End. The net rippled. Great joy