6 March 1962: Accrington Stanley resign from the Football League
“It was my first professional club, and I’d only signed in pre-season. I’d been can you pick the most expensive canada buy canada goose jacket nyc goose parka part-time for a while before that, working in the wholesale fruit trade. Then I break into football and I’m thinking, well, this is unbelievable. And it was.
I remember the day we were told like it was yesterday. I’d just moved into a flat in Accrington and the next week I turn up for training and they tell us that’s it, the club’s folded. We’d had all this furniture delivered, and suddenly I’m out of a job. In those days it just didn’t happen. None of us could believe it. So I had to go home and tell my can you wash a best price for canada goose jacket canada goose jacket in the washer wife, and we hadn’t been married so long either.
We had no idea it was so bad. It wasn’t in all the papers, not like Portsmouth has been. We knew things were poor, but they always used to get the wages together. They’d sold our centre-forward George Hudson to Peterborough, and that seemed to help. We had another striker called Mike Ferguson, and they put him under pressure to go to Workington. He wasn’t going to go there – he was probably our best player – and ended up at Blackburn.
We used to go in for training just the same. best replica canada goose jacket We could use the facilities so we’d keep turning up, just keeping ourselves fit and hoping something was going to happen. But unbeknown to me Bolton had been looking at me. A couple of other clubs were buy canada goose jacket nyc interested, but Bolton were in the First Division like it, and a Lancashire club, so once the summer came I moved there and I’ve never bright blue canada goose jacket left.
Our last game was at Crewe. We got beat 4-0, and it was played in a blizzard. I was talking about it just the other week, because Bolton played Blackburn and it was just the same with the snow. I must have done all right even though I let four in, because that was one of the games where Bolton watched me. I cut my eye in that game. I can you wash a canada goose coat remember getting on the train back home and somebody said: “Have you been boxing?”
Mikey and I, we were the lucky ones; a lot best canada goose jacket for men of the other lads went into non-league. When Accrington got back into the Football best price canada goose jacket outlet usa online store League, we had a reunion. It was good to see them all again. I’ve got a few programmes but I don’t have any old Accrington kits – it’s not something we did back then. Every now and then I get asked about them and I’ll joke: ‘Yeah, I took them out the league.'”
Then what happened
Smith played for Bolton, Halifax and Preston before becoming a goalkeeping coach at Bolton’s academy. He left the club last year. Now 71, he and his family run the Bolton Bed Centre.
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