Mike Beesley sold me my first proper trainers that were'nt plimsoles....................Seem to remember Gary Moore being sub a few times when he should ave been one of the first names on the team sheet. Vastly underrated.
"Thanks for that Ozzie if only I did !!!. However as far as I can remember,(mind you it was 47 years ago) I think there was a picture in the Southend Standard?, it was after the 2nd.Round match against Brentwood Town showing Gary & Billy both with a couple of match balls each. I was led to believe neither Gary or Billy had the match balls but substitute balls were used in that picture as nobody knew what had happened to the originals?(a picture from that time would be welcome). However many years later when I met up with Billy at a pub near his home, I asked him as the scorer of a club record NINE hat-tricks did he still have the match balls from those games?, he replied I don't have any left, this was because when he moved back to Northampton, the kids around where he lived would ask him to play football with them in the street/park and all of the match balls were given away for them to use.
1968-69.Aldershot, 1969-70.Scunthorpe, 1971-72.Grimsby Town all at home & Reading away also 1971-72.
Yes,well remember arriving at Peterborough for the first game of the new season and being shocked to find Gary was the sub. His replacement ?(we lost 2-0) None other than George Duck-I don't think he ever got chosen again!
Geoge Duck came from Millwall and played a 3 games for Southend his last being at Colchester in 71 , at the end of the season he went to Wealdstone where he became the all time record goal scorer for them .
Mick it was the 26th Feb and a Saturday afternoon , Billy Best's goal was a great lob over the Workington goalkeeper Mike Rogen , I think that it was ment to of been played the Friday night before but was changed to the Saturday because of the power strikes when a lot of games were rearranged , the week before West Ham played Hereford United in the FA Cup on a Monday afternoon .
