Before my time

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    Remember it well! My first season. I remember every one of those lads as though it were yesterday.

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    Season before I first went. Recognise most of the names. Ken Oliver was my first favourite player.
     
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    I can list all their christian names except D Barber.

    Who was he? Did he sneak on in an early 1960s photo-bombing kind of style?
     
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    David Barber, half back or inside forward. Usually on the fringes of the first eleven iirc.

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    I once got Ken Oliver's autograph, on the bottom of a matchbox, as he walked up Summer Lane to visit his wife and newborn child in St Helen Hospital. Different world.

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    Seven local lads there.
     
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    Yes I didn't bother looking it up, but I am sure you are right. A fringe player, perpetual reserve maybe.

    We didn't do "development squads" in those days :)
     
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    Duncan Sharp was my hero at that time. Proper centre aif hard as nails. He went down injured once and you could have heard a pin drop - the entire crowd was in shock!

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    I was just starting my long time affair with the Reds at the end of this season but a lot of these players stayed with us for some time. Normal in those days, but not any more.

    Eric Brookes, Bobby Wood, Billy Houghton. Proper stalwarts.
     
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    Great post! Bobby Wood (no 4) and Ken Oliver ( no 10) two of my boyhood Oakwell heroes!
     
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    Wood Brookes and Houghton would have all been squad worthy to this day.
     
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    If W Houghton is Billy Houghton who went on to play for Ipswich when they had a good side in the late 60's , he was a mate of my dad's , I remember him fetching me a programme signed by the whole of their 1968 2nd division championship winning team .
     
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    And Sharpy!

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    Got to know Frank Beaumont well for a few years before he died, he coached the kids at Barugh JFC, as did his son Martin, who was a decent local league players. Lovely guy Frank, and a legend at Macclesfield. My Dad rated Eric Brookes highly I think, was he a left back?

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    Indeed a different world. A lifetime's worth of memories watching the Reds. Hopefully a few still to come!
     
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    Yes it is indeed Billy Houghton. IIRC he also played for Watford.

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    Yes left back wore no. 3. Local lad from Kexborough. This thread is brilliant, I'm staggered how much I can remember 55 years on!

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    Good therapy for early onset alzheimers. That bstrd Alzheimer can't wipe out those red memories. That's fer ferkin shooer!
     
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    David Barber. Half back who came into the first team for a few games and did very well. He was promptly transferred to PNE, I think. He used to get very nervous before a game and I remember the Chronic did a picture of him hiding behind the paper before a match once. Apparently his favourite way of calming his nerves. (That was in the days when there was summat worth reading in it, though.)
     
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