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IT is sad to report the passing of former Saints and Welsh international forward Mel James at the age of 74.

SAINTS take on Leeds Rhinos on Thursday - the game coming not long since the 50th anniversary of when the sides met at Wembley and in the…

ON Day 25 of our Nostalgia November feature we flashback to July 1975 and a Saints XI against an All Stars team which featured the hugely popular…

ENGLAND World Cup winner Nobby Stiles, who sadly passed away last October, scaled the heights in a long career in football, playing sport's most iconic stadia across the globe. But on 27 July 1975 the hugely popular England midfielder added Knowsley Road to that list of celebrated venues. Stiles joined fellow former Manchester United colleagues Bobby Charlton and David Herd in turning out for an All Stars XI to play a Saints XI in aid of John Mantle's testimonial. Stiles, who played in every minute of England's 1966 World Cup campaign, famously danced a jig of delight around Wembley ...

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...