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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: The Red Baron on March 28, 2010, 09:48:47 am

Title: Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers
Post by: The Red Baron on March 28, 2010, 09:48:47 am
Following on from the thread on Donny-born players, I found this about the Wolves nursery in South Yorkshire:

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/birmingham-post-england-the/mi_7996/is_2005_June_25/football-digging-gold-synoymous-wolverhampton/ai_n37548166/?tag=content;col1

A very interesting read- I'm sure DonnyWolf will agree at least!
Title: Re:Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers
Post by: Donnywolf on March 28, 2010, 12:47:33 pm
Yep very interesting

Good old Wath Wanderers - gave the world Ron Flowers (Edlington) & Peter Knowles (somewhere Kinsley / Hemsworth / Pontefract way) as well as Alan Sunderland who I saw net the winner  for Arsenal v Manure in an FA Cup Final which ended 3-2 and until the flurry of late goals was forgettable !
Title: Re:Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on March 28, 2010, 01:45:57 pm
Sounds like the name of a bad 70s pub rock band.

Excellent article mind. I was totally unaware of this.

Poor Mark Crook missed his biggest coup by dying in 1977. I started secondary school in Wath in 1978!
Title: Re:Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers
Post by: CusworthRovers on March 29, 2010, 09:06:04 am
Interesting. There was a lad from Thorne, who had trials with Wolves, when I was a nipper (late 70's, early 80's time). It always puzzled me on 'why Wolves?'. How did they know about this tiny little pit town? and passed umpteen other cities, towns, villages, hamlets to be here.

Maybe this is the link. Maybe he saw this lad in a local game. Maybe I can sleep at night now.
Title: Re:Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers
Post by: Filo on March 29, 2010, 09:44:15 am
CusworthRovers wrote:
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t this tiny little pit town?




You missed the word \"insignificant\" from the bit ;)
Title: Re:Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers
Post by: CusworthRovers on March 29, 2010, 10:24:48 am
I was at the Car Boot in Stainy on Sunday. You know......nothing much really, just going through a few magazines. Then would you believe it, my rifle jammed.