daveyblue45
Central Defender
As a much younger (and I mean MUCH younger!) lad, I was an avid reader of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly.
Many of Sunderland's stars would be featured in its pages, I can recall Billy Bingham being one of them.
Another star of that period was the winger Colin Grainger. Apparently, Colin was a handy footballer, but also sang and recorded professionally! At one stage He was offered £250 a week to sing, and this was in the era of the maximum wage! He was also on the same bill at Stockport as The Beatles!!!
I never saw Colin playing for SAFC, but caught him when he'd signed for Leeds.
I'm quite intrigued by these accounts of how footballers lived in "the dark ages"
Tom Finney was a plumber!!! Nat Lofthouse had a scrap iron business! (though he could have got work as a hit man!) Billy Liddell the magnificent Liverpool FC winger had a sweetie shop on Oakfield Road, and we kids used to go there after school and tried to get his autograph! (He was a lovely man! much loved)
Oh dear, I think I'm rambling (again!
) folks! gee, you're all very patient and kind letting me come on here and muse!!!
Regards to one and all!!!
Dave
Many of Sunderland's stars would be featured in its pages, I can recall Billy Bingham being one of them.
Another star of that period was the winger Colin Grainger. Apparently, Colin was a handy footballer, but also sang and recorded professionally! At one stage He was offered £250 a week to sing, and this was in the era of the maximum wage! He was also on the same bill at Stockport as The Beatles!!!
I never saw Colin playing for SAFC, but caught him when he'd signed for Leeds.
I'm quite intrigued by these accounts of how footballers lived in "the dark ages"
Oh dear, I think I'm rambling (again!
Regards to one and all!!!
Dave
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