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by pjdaly » Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:58 pm
Jim - - -
Re your post earlier in this thread concerning that famous "Fred-They-Shall-Not-Pass-Else" article when we won 1-0 away at Swindon very early in our 3rd Division days . . .
It must have been round about 2008 that there was an interview with Fred featured in the EM. He said that one of his sons, Gary (who played a handful of games for our first team in the late 70's and who is sadly also no longer with us) lived in the Swindon area at one time and one day the postman delivered a parcel and, upon spotting the fairly rare surname, quizzed Gary as to whether he was any relation to Fred Else. When Gary said he was his Dad the postie apparently brought up that performance by Fred from many, many years earlier and must have clearly remembered it with some sense of awe! Fred also said in the article that it was probably his best-ever performance in a Barrow shirt. Swindon had a revered set of forwards at that time, especially for 3rd Division standing. Apart from the obvious one of Don Rogers, names such as Smart, Heath and Noble spring from the memory banks very readily. But none of them could find a way past Fred Else that night.