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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on June 24, 2012, 03:14:50 PM
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....today's issue of the Non League Paper does include an interesting article on Macc's 1970 FA Trophy winning team as part of their 'Where are they now?' feature.
Alty supporters of a certain vintage will recall that some members of that particular side such as Merrick Corfield; Denis Fidler; Dave Lyon; Dave Roberts and Dick Young subsequently went on to play for the Robins between 1971 and 1974.
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' ... to play for the Robins' is in the case of some of those geriatrics named something of an exaggeration, Cult!
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Used to refer to them as "The Over the Hill Gang".
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Dennis Fidler was one of my early heroes as a kid in my first season 71-72.
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' ... to play for the Robins' is in the case of some of those geriatrics named something of an exaggeration, Cult!
That's a very fair point, Mike!
Dave Roberts the best of the bunch, perhaps?
He went on to become player-manager of Morecambe when they won the FA Trophy in 1974 and, according to the NLP article, now resides in South Africa.
The piece also states that Denis Fidler ran a chain of fish and chip shops before emigrating to Italy a few years ago.