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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on June 10, 2012, 06:17:17 PM
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Excerpt from an interview with the current Southport manager, Liam Watson, in today's issue of the Non League Paper:
Toughest opponent as player-manager?
"Mark Maddox.
I was centre forward for Runcorn and he was centre half at Altrincham.
Sometimes I got the better of him and, on others, he got the better of me but there was obvious respect for each other.
He loved a last-ditch tackle and they didn't call him 'Mad Dog' for no reason but he was an awful lot better footballer than a lot of people gave him credit for, like Jamie Carragher.
It's a crying shame that he's suffering from Motor Neurone Disease now, because he's a similar age to me and he shouldn't be going through what he is.
But I read about him forming a band in the NLP a couple of weeks ago and the way he is fighting his illness tells you what he was like on the pitch - he was a winner!"