AB: There’s been so many of them. Obviously Tony Butcher used to score the goals and you tend to remember the goal-scorers. Colin Grant and Frank Peterson stood out. I can remember watching the team training when I was a kid and I was standing behind the goal and Peter Gillott took this kick and it came straight for me. I turned and it hit me on the back and I went down like a sack of spuds and I was out of breath for a few minutes! I don’t remember much as a seven-year-old because I didn’t come on a regular basis. The one game I do remember is the King’s Lynn game and a bloke took a shot and another player got it and it trickled over the line and we won the FA Cup Tie! Finally, what are your impressions of Dean Holdsworth? DS: I think that the Football Club had stagnated and we needed a change anyway and I’m quite glad that we’ve had a good turnover of players because I think we need a fresh start. I think if we had kept the majority of the players people would have thought it was same old same old really. He’s a manager with a track record. AB: He’s certainly going to be a different sort of person in regards to discipline compared to Glenn. I think that Dean is very enthusiastic and will make changes that we wouldn’t have seen under Glenn. Glenn was a nice guy but I don’t think he could have taken us any further. It’s a results game and we need Dean to get a squad together that can compete.
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