The Great Harwood game was in the run up to the Trophy semi final second leg against Runcorn. We had drawn 0-0 with the Linnets on the Saturday, and this game was played on the Monday. Notable for the debuts of Graham Tobin and Larry Garrity. I remember turning up at The Old Showground and saying "who the hell are they?" Graham Heathcote scored both goals in a routine 2-0 win. Garrity made it into the starting 11 at Runcorn the following Saturday for the second leg where a mal Bailey goal took us to Wembley for the first time
'Toby' joined us from a Wythenshawe Sunday league team he was a friend of a friend , good player but never a regular at ML because of Mal Bailey and John Owens . A legend at Macc after leaving us btw !
Larry Garrity came from Burscough and despite looking promising in the few games he had for us including the Runcorn 2nd Leg he did'nt make the final team or subs and then....who knows ?