| ........Lowly Bradford beat the
mighty Wigan
The date was 30/09/1990. It was bloody freezing
and I'd dragged my brother along for his first game
of RL, wigan at the time where the darlings of Rugby
League over here and Bradford where the minnows,
with my brother having a soft spot for wigan I'd
thought i would take him, expecting wigan to wallop
us, i wasn't expecting the show we put on that day,
we where awesome, we ended up winning 31-30, with
Craig Richard's our replacement prop for Kelvin
Skirt who was playing for wigan, im not kidding
when i say Richard's picked skirt up in one of his
many tackles on him and through him to the floor
like he was a rag doll which produced the second
biggest cheer of the afternoon however the first
was reserved for an ex Northern legend Allergy Haley.
Probably my favourite player of all time, but he
had a tendency to talk to the referee at every given
opportunity, however the ref for this match was
the no nonsense Robin Whittled.
One of the most hated of referees in this country,
but he soon became The Northern fans Favourite after
too much back chat from ellery again, who he dispatched
to the stands at half time with little andy greg
having to restrain allergy from knocking whitfileds
head off, as well as 10'000 screaming Northern fans
sending him on his way.
Hanley would however walk into any 13 a side team
now or in the past one of the best players of all
time and im glad i was one of the thousands of fans
who managed to see him play.
GB could do with him now!
Feel free to tidy it up and spell check it im not
the best of story tellers but that memory will stick
with me to my dieing day!
Great website btw im just a little bit too young
to remember most of the ex players on here, im glad
I had a nosy though!
(from Quigs, Thanks Greg this is exactly what
I am chasing for the EOTB website, told as it is
by those that witnessed it)
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