Norman puts names to Rivington Road team John Mantle coached
And we received a reply from one of the players featured - Norman Critchley. Seated in the front row are headteacher Bill Garner, who played for the Saints before and during the Second World War, and dual code international John Mantle. But Norman gave us the names of all the other lads in the squad. He explained: "It was all the same lads who was in the football team as well. "Five of us played for the schools town team also, I still see some of them now and then we were not a bad team. "John Mantle used to get me out of lessons I didn't like and I would just train on the field i...
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