Mike Squire

No. Try again.



Correct! He scored the winning goal.



Correct. Released at the end of the previous season, he trained as a physio (remember the link I posted where Rioch said he did the job himself?) and was registered non-contract. The Saturday before the Burnley game, he played at Doncaster in place of Turner who had been taken ill.



I am quite impressed that you managed to get BOTH of these wrong!

Compo and Lors are indeed correct. The other YTS was Young - who did make it as far as an unused sub in a league game once. No runout this time for Powell (a Sherwell Valley boy!) who also got as far as sitting on the bench once.

Powell actually got to play AGAINST us in a friendly the following month. Who did he play for, who scored our winning goal and why weren't we playing a league game on that day?

I wanted it to be them but didn't dare think so.

Legends (as we're prone to call them these days); perhaps even icons.

Well, mightily significant at the very least.

In their own unique ways of course.

Mike Squire v Newton Abbot. But why weren't we playing Chester that day? Did they have the 'flu or something?

And, when we did, not many bothered with it, did they?

They had seven players down with a virus and succeeded in getting the game postponed.

The Football League had gone soft since they threw the book at Exeter in similar circumstances a decade earlier.

I once saw Steve Lennox play for East Fife at Montrose.

Just the once, mind.

You have all got me pulling my scrap book out again!
When I played in that first friendly I got on the field in the second half as I only arrived at the end of the first half because I suffered a shattered windscreen on the way and was delayed several hours!
The other first-timer playing at TUFC that game I believe was Paul Compton, brought up from Bournemouth.
It's amazing how Leroy Rosenior's name was brought up. My first full cap for England was when I went on for Leroy with 15 minutes to play against Scotland at Filbert Street and headed the only and winning goal. I kept my spot in the line up and started against Wales scoring again the only goal of the match in Cardiff - strangely another header.
What is not recorded in the ESFA books is that I also played in a friendly for ESFA U-18 vs the Combined Armed Forces. I scored there also in our 2-0 win - this time with the right foot! So really I was 3 for 3!
Leroy and I both went to Fulham where I had an injury plagued year, mainly with Achilles tendon issues and was released at the end of that dreadful year. I remember Terry Mancini, the 2nd team coach, was an utter idiot - when I played in Fulham 2nd team against smaller clubs he stood on the sidelines, when we played the likes of West Ham 2nd and Tottenham Hotspur 2nd he would pull out our regular defender to play himself!. Anyone remember Riccardo Villa of Spurs. When I played against their second team for Fulham both he and Glen Hoddle were getting back from injuries and played in the Spurs 2nd team lineup - needless to say, both were quite amazing.
Another player from that England U-18 team who went on to play professionally was Michael Hooper, goalkeeper, who actually went to Liverpool. Unfortunately when he made his first team appearance he had a nightmare and I didn't hear much of him after that.
Jeremy Goss on the other hand became part of the furniture at Norwich and I remember his storming goal against Bayern.

Thanks again for the memories everyone - I thought I'd forgotten all this with too many headers of heavy, soggy footballs.

From memory there was a group of Sheffield United supporters cheering on TC at that game at Saltergate.



We got Paul Holmes from Donny about four years after Mike's time at Plainmoor. Amazing really, because after four seasons with us, Holmesy had a spell at Birmingham before quickly going on to Everton.

A Cyril Knowles signing - a manager who would have known all about lower division players north of Birmingham.