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I seem to recall an article / interview mentioned at one point he was working something like16hr days and that his wife was less than impressed.
Don't ask me where from I've no idea and before anyone else says it, no I'm not him :emoticon-0102-bigsm
That was around the Checkatrade Wembley trip I think, I remember getting an email in the early hours. He’s a credit to the club for me.
 
My memory ain’t too good these days, but wasn’t it Mel Holden who was always given stick for being slow to a ball or easily robbed, but years later it was discovered that he was suffering from a muscle waisting disease?

Poor old Mel, he was a proper football player who loved the game ...

... so sad what happened, he could've been a legend.
 
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My memory ain’t too good these days, but wasn’t it Mel Holden who was always given stick for being slow to a ball or easily robbed, but years later it was discovered that he was suffering from a muscle waisting disease?
My memory ain’t too good these days, but wasn’t it Mel Holden who was always given stick for being slow to a ball or easily robbed, but years later it was discovered that he was suffering from a muscle waisting disease?
Aye I think he died when he was about 23 might be wrong but I think he had multiple sclerosis.
 
My memory ain’t too good these days, but wasn’t it Mel Holden who was always given stick for being slow to a ball or easily robbed, but years later it was discovered that he was suffering from a muscle waisting disease?
Not bad goals per game ratio for us 23 in 73 appearances, wished we had someone like that today. He died of Motor Neurone Disease in 1981.
 
( To the tune of Rule Britannia) Rule Mel Holden, Mel Holden rules the skies?
Always sticks in my mind. Remember at the Bolton game 75-76 promotion season being crushed in the Roker end (well over 50k there)
When we scored ended up facing the wrong way and just seeing a big banner at the back of the Roker being held up saying
"Holden Rules The Skies" Funny what sticks in you're mind, can barely remember the game but I can picture the scene with lads on the barriers and that banner like it was yesterday.
 
We went to buy Frank Worthington and came back with a Boblee hat as the joke went around at the time.. A magnificent looking footballer; that's where it ended. Another **** buy
Yeah remember it well
We also went to buy ray hanking
And came back with John hawley
 
Always sticks in my mind. Remember at the Bolton game 75-76 promotion season being crushed in the Roker end (well over 50k there)
When we scored ended up facing the wrong way and just seeing a big banner at the back of the Roker being held up saying
"Holden Rules The Skies" Funny what sticks in you're mind, can barely remember the game but I can picture the scene with lads on the barriers and that banner like it was yesterday.

The crowd was massive mate.

The stewards opened the gates on the left side of the Fulwell because we were queuing down to the New Derby ...

... just shows what could happen if we were ever good.
 
The crowd was massive mate.

The stewards opened the gates on the left side of the Fulwell because we were queuing down to the New Derby ...

... just shows what could happen if we were ever good.

The Man U replay was the biggest crowd I have ever seen, New Derby !!! the Cambridge was as far as I got before I hit the crush, it was estimated that 150,000 turned up that night, and it certainly looked like it,
 
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