My old fella had trials for WBA just after the war when he stayed at his sisters who made guns during it. I played in quite a successful youth team that was watched regulary, one made it who was an inter in our year, and was at the Boro when everybody wanted him knacked his knee and ended up in the NL. Mate and teammate made it at Wolves. Played a bit with Keith Edwards(Sheff utd&Leeds . Played for the town at schoolboy level.Played till I was 48 Sundays and occassional 5-a- side. Ran Sunday teams over 15 years. Had the odd flirt with the Wearside league, but I was a ST holder and went to the match, trained twice a week though. My sons all played TJA and I managed 2 of them at Sunday league. My youngest played Football and Rugby and played at Newcastle Falcons English promisings for 2 years( 4 weeks a year )