TOMMY ALMOST CUT DRAMA SHORT

ALVECHURCH and Oxford City might never have entered the record books had a particular City player been a trifle more precise with his headers.Tommy Eales hit the underside of the bar in the last minute of the fourth game after nodding against the bar earlier in the match and having had a goal ruled offside in the previous replay. Now 80, Eales was an old-fashioned centre forward who wore a numbernine on his back although he is listed as number eight in the one penny programme for the sixth game at Villa Park.“I played every minute of every single game,” he recalled....

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