I would venture that his Dad, Andy Dibble, was one of the most erratic and unreliable keepers I have seen in an Altrincham shirt. If memory serves after he left us he got some form of acid burns from diving on dodgy pitch markings while playing for a Welsh League club. He actually returned to league football with Wrexham for a while after that I think. He came to us with a solid reputation but I don't think his spell at Moss Lane was the finest of his career.
In the anticlimactic opening to Alty’s 1998/99 Unibond League season, Andy Dibble made 12 somewhat erratic appearances (including that personal nightmare in a 2-1 home defeat against Lancaster City, not to mention that mortifying FA Cup exit at Ashton United) and was only on the winning side on two occasions.
Ah, that Lancaster defeat! That was our worst ever result at the time wasn't it? It certainly felt like it.
And then at Ashton, someone sang "we're going out to a small and friendly club", which we duly did. We were rather good at it at one time.
(Incidentally our worst ever cup defeat (6-1) was also at Ashton in our only ever Carthium cup match when we had to play Ian "really" Senior in goals).
Strange to think we went on to get promotion after the Lancaster shocker with great wins like at Emley where Graham Heathcote "scored" (there was a suspicion, possibly not unfounded, that the winger - Sam Harris? - would not have put in the cross for one of the goals without having been told to "whip it in" by him!).
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