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Another good one, Timbo. Torquay United's first ever visit to Deepdale in the days when PNE would have been a big fish in Division 3. Just six years after an FA Cup final appearance and a mere decade since the retirement of Tom Finney. That, of course, is the same Tom Finney - electrical engineer and plumbing contractor - of 82 Lytham Road. Who'd have thought North End would be propping up Division Four with us just fifteen or so years later?

Alan Kelly in goal for the home team. Last Saturday's Lancashire Evening Post was asking readers if he was the club's greatest ever 'keeper. I expect they'll say he was.

Sponsored competitions, a new phenomenon in English football, get a mention: the Watney Cup and the Ford Sporting League (which I was beginning to fear was a figment of my imagination). No sign of Torquay being in contention for either. Were we that dour and dirty?

Keep off the grass? Hmm, when I lived in Preston there was no grass at Deepdale.

Allan Brown would have been an old Blackpool adversary from the 1950s; referee Ray Tinkler still a few months short of the afternoon at Elland Road when he was to achieve notoriety.

Tony Slough in the Torquay picture. I've not heard of him. A misprint or an apprentice?

I'm pretty sure that Tony was Alan's younger brother.

Allan Brown knew of him from his Luton days and brought him down to Plainmoor. I don't Think he settled in and went back home fairly quickly.

Do any of our former TUFC reserves players remember him?

Tony Slough, brother of Alan? I thought of that myself but hadn't pondered the Luton connection through the manager.

It sounds hugely plausible and there's a character called "lutonloyal" on Sports262.com who confirms that Alan Slough had a brother called Tony. "A good lad" apparently. They lived in Stopsley which is locally known as "Tin Town" on account of the construction methods used in the late 1940s. We live and learn.