Description:At the end of the 1953/54 season, Walsall Football Club finished bottom of the Third Division South and applied for re-election to the Football League for a third consecutive year. Five months later, manager Frank Buckley offered 20-year-old Tony Richards a four-week trial.This is the story of how Richards and his team-mates changed Walsall from a music hall joke into a team challenging for a place in the top tier of English football. In three seasons, the club went from playing a Fourth Division league match in front of 2,366 people at Gateshead to facing Liverpool in front of an Anfield crowd of 42,229 in the Second Division. Including testimony from Walsall players Keith Ball, Ray Wiggin, Trevor Foster, Stan Bennett and Nick Atthey, Walsall's Greatest is a detailed account of the Saddlers' Glory Years and the impact of the man voted by the club's supporters as Walsall's Greatest Ever Player.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walsall's Greatest: Tony Richards and the Saddlers' Glory Years. To get started finding Walsall's Greatest: Tony Richards and the Saddlers' Glory Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
255
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
ToneRedDays
Release
2022
ISBN
1399908006
Walsall's Greatest: Tony Richards and the Saddlers' Glory Years
Description: At the end of the 1953/54 season, Walsall Football Club finished bottom of the Third Division South and applied for re-election to the Football League for a third consecutive year. Five months later, manager Frank Buckley offered 20-year-old Tony Richards a four-week trial.This is the story of how Richards and his team-mates changed Walsall from a music hall joke into a team challenging for a place in the top tier of English football. In three seasons, the club went from playing a Fourth Division league match in front of 2,366 people at Gateshead to facing Liverpool in front of an Anfield crowd of 42,229 in the Second Division. Including testimony from Walsall players Keith Ball, Ray Wiggin, Trevor Foster, Stan Bennett and Nick Atthey, Walsall's Greatest is a detailed account of the Saddlers' Glory Years and the impact of the man voted by the club's supporters as Walsall's Greatest Ever Player.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walsall's Greatest: Tony Richards and the Saddlers' Glory Years. To get started finding Walsall's Greatest: Tony Richards and the Saddlers' Glory Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.