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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: roversdude on April 20, 2023, 08:47:09 pm

Title: For Attn Tyke
Post by: roversdude on April 20, 2023, 08:47:09 pm: Just reading something on FB - a newspaper article from 50 years ago.
Barnsley beat Hartlepool away 4-1 with a first half hatrick from Mick Butler who was described as an amateur striker who was a coal miner by trade
What happened to him any idea
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: normal rules on April 20, 2023, 09:24:15 pm: He is still alive. Aged 72.finished playing in 82 for bury.
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: roversdude on April 20, 2023, 09:46:18 pm: Thanks NR
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: normal rules on April 20, 2023, 09:53:07 pm: Rumour was he was a sparks down the pit after he finished footballing.
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on April 21, 2023, 12:31:04 am: also for tyke

https://ceegee-viewfromahill.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-barnsley-football-club-mascot-fa.html
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: tyke1962 on April 21, 2023, 06:15:12 am: Quote from: roversdude on April 20, 2023, 08:47:09 pm
Just reading something on FB - a newspaper article from 50 years ago.
Barnsley beat Hartlepool away 4-1 with a first half hatrick from Mick Butler who was described as an amateur striker who was a coal miner by trade
What happened to him any idea

He signed as an amateur in 1973 and played in the old Yorkshire League for Worsborough Bridge , he carried on working as an electrician at Woolley Colliery until signing professional forms a few months later after hitting the ground running .

Great goalscorer for us at that time but was the victim of thug fourth division defenders who pretty much got away with everything back then , Mick broke his leg three times .

Sold to Huddersfield in 1976 i believe and went on to play for Bournemouth and Bury .

After his football days ended he got his old job back at Woolley Colliery .

His nickname was " Superstar " from what I was told although even though I worked at Woolley I never knew him .
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: roversdude on April 21, 2023, 06:55:30 am: Thanks Tyke he would have had plenty of recovery time at least if he was a sparky lol
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: Reg of the Rovers on April 21, 2023, 09:53:09 am: Quote from: Colemans Left Hook on April 21, 2023, 12:31:04 am
also for tyke

https://ceegee-viewfromahill.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-barnsley-football-club-mascot-fa.html
That was only taken last week CLH!
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: tyke1962 on April 21, 2023, 05:32:22 pm: Quote from: Colemans Left Hook on April 21, 2023, 12:31:04 am
also for tyke

https://ceegee-viewfromahill.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-barnsley-football-club-mascot-fa.html

Tell the truth CLH, in my opinion my club doesn't highlight our two FA cup Final appearances or even winning the FA cup anywhere near enough .

History like that should be celebrated because it won't happen again .

We should have a single star on our club badge in my opinion and you'd hardly know we'd ever won the FA cup if it was left to the club .

Not everybody has won it by any means .
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: roversdude on April 21, 2023, 05:42:16 pm: I wonder what the female jockey was called
Title: Re: For Attn Tyke
Post by: Reg of the Rovers on April 21, 2023, 06:52:48 pm: Quote from: roversdude on April 21, 2023, 05:42:16 pm
I wonder what the female jockey was called
Crowned winner of 'Miss Barnsley' 2022.