Mark Crook and Wath Wanderers

[The Red Baron]

Following on from the thread on Donny-born players, I found this about the Wolves nursery in South Yorkshire:

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/birmingham-post-england-the/mi_7996/is_2005_June_25/football-digging-gold-synoymous-wolverhampton/ai_n37548166/?tag=content;col1

A very interesting read- I'm sure DonnyWolf will agree at least!

[Donnywolf]

Yep very interesting

Good old Wath Wanderers - gave the world Ron Flowers (Edlington) & Peter Knowles (somewhere Kinsley / Hemsworth / Pontefract way) as well as Alan Sunderland who I saw net the winner for Arsenal v Manure in an FA Cup Final which ended 3-2 and until the flurry of late goals was forgettable !

[BillyStubbsTears]

Sounds like the name of a bad 70s pub rock band.

Excellent article mind. I was totally unaware of this.

Poor Mark Crook missed his biggest coup by dying in 1977. I started secondary school in Wath in 1978!

[CusworthRovers]

Interesting. There was a lad from Thorne, who had trials with Wolves, when I was a nipper (late 70's, early 80's time). It always puzzled me on 'why Wolves?'. How did they know about this tiny little pit town? and passed umpteen other cities, towns, villages, hamlets to be here.

Maybe this is the link. Maybe he saw this lad in a local game. Maybe I can sleep at night now.

[Filo]

CusworthRovers wrote:

t this tiny little pit town?

You missed the word \"insignificant\" from the bit

[CusworthRovers]

I was at the Car Boot in Stainy on Sunday. You know......nothing much really, just going through a few magazines. Then would you believe it, my rifle jammed.