Rip Van Fish
Striker
Yeah it was full on back then.Hell on if there wasn't a pint of draught ale awaiting the likes of Trueman and Statham. Air would have have been blue if there'd been a bowl of fruit.
Jim Laker once recited his route home from OT after his 19 wickets in 1956.
“Drove home but stopped at a pub in Lichfield off the A5. Always called at the same one after playing in Manchester. Had a pint of mild and the landlady would make me a sandwich. No one in there knew who I was.”