I quite enjoyed the Salford City documentary that's been on recently I couldn't believe Mike Edwards was still playing when I heard recently, good on him
watching Edwards brings back memories of him playing rightback and having an uncanny knack of kicking the ball into touch when trying to find his team mate done the line...thank **** we have moved on from that turgid ****e
Salford definately deserve to win that, Salfords keeper hardly had a shot to stop. Notts County were very poor.
Cracking night, watched the two Class of 92 documentaries back2back and then the game which was decent. Best team won.
I thought the class of 92 documentary was pretty bloody good. I wasn't a fan of them as footballers, but the documentary really painted them in a different light to me. Phil Neville encouraging his daughter with regular exercise to improve mobility due to cerebral palsy was really heart warming. The work behind the scenes at the club to make it better for their volunteers.
I thought the documentary was good, was good to see the other side of a non league club. I can only imagine how special tonight was for all those volunteers. The fact Scholesy and Neville where celebrating like children when they scored showed how much the club means to them. I thought the referee was excellent, no needless yellow cards, no blowing up for every minor foul. Just let the game flow.
Not to mention the inspiration it must surely give others. I thought they were damn fine footballers; what didn't you like?
Edwards was a good prospect when he was younger. Well, I thought so. Pearson also asked me what I thought about Gary Taylor Fletcher when we had him on loan. Was he from Altringham ? They wanted £50k for him ( could have been more) I said I thought he wasn't worth it and he signed for Huddersfield? and scored a shed load of goals. I was right about another player at that time we had on loan from Southend, or was it Brighton? young forward, Alan Lee ? Pearson said what do you think and I said he has a heart like a butterfly, we didn't sign him either.
They probably were decent footballers - more the club they represented. Simply because of all the Man Utd fans in this area that latch onto a club, due to it being successful rather than supporting their local club.
I never really saw that and left Hull early, but can understand what you mean, although I don't think it would have bothered me, to be honest. I am tinkering on the edges of Northern League again as I support my grandsons and granddaughter on a Satdee morning and after driving anything between 500 - 1500 miles during the week driving to Hull on a weekend is now a bit of a trial. Non-league has always been excellent, as are the folk who give it so much for nothing other than the angst 90mins brings.
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Retreating inside a trendy Leeds bar close to home, Kebbie - a lightning quick defender whose 11 games at Salford have already seen Championship scouts sniffing - does not give off the impression that he was on his death bed three years ago, struck down with an undetected Epstein-Barr virus and ensuing post-viral fatigue lasting over two years. He believes he will play in the Premier League sooner rather than later and says with unwavering conviction that England recognition will follow. He crossed balls for Radamel Falcao at the peak of his powers but Friday's televised fixture is the biggest professional game of his short career; an opportunity to remind those who doubted him that he's back. 'People will be surprised how good we are... we'll beat Notts County, no doubt about that.' But first, how it came to pass that a youngster once managed by Diego Simeone turned up in English football's seventh tier, the Northern Premier League. Seven years old when he first trained with Leeds, Kebbie played for the club's Under 18s at just 14 before his head was turned by Barcelona. 'I loved it at Leeds and was influenced massively to leave by my agent,' 21-year-old Kebbie tells Sportsmail. 'But at Barcelona I felt at home - even at 16. The first week I was a little bit starstruck, but if you think about it too much you won't perform. You've got to believe in yourself. I always did and I always will.' It would not work out - he remains at a loss why - but Atletico came calling regardless. Life appeared sweet, even if his mother was curiously advised not to move to Spain with him. 'My FIFA clearance took ages to come through but it was all about developing anyway and mixing with Falcao, Diego, Tiago - incredible players,' he says. 'Now that was surreal - being coached by Simeone. A pinch yourself moment. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image +15 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 'I came back home on my summer break from my first season in May 2012. The first signs of trouble were a few weeks before... I'd sort of felt myself getting run down. I didn't really give myself much time to rest; I wanted to be in tip-top condition back for pre-season. I prided myself on fitness, continued to push myself when I was feeling unwell and just deteriorated. 'My agent told me to continue training during the time I was expressing how ill I was. Stupidly I looked up to him - he was like a father-figure to me. I suppose I was a bit naive. I thought he had my best interests at heart, but when he told me Rangers wanted me on loan that summer - although I knew it was a great opportunity - he guilt-tripped me.' Still only 17, Kebbie impressed Ally McCoist in his first session with Rangers, but life would change drastically after the second. 'I knew I didn't feel right,' he explains. 'Training was tougher and I collapsed on the pitch. I came round a little bit, went inside and it happened again. I went home to Yorkshire, rushed into hospital a few times with weird symptoms and was admitted because I'd become so weak.' He was in the process of losing three stone in two months and spent five weeks in hospital, diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus and wheelchair-bound for two months afterwards. He watched Atletico's UEFA Super Cup final against Chelsea in hospital. 'I thought I'd been poisoned. I was playing at Atletico six weeks and now I'm dying on a hospital bed? It was that severe. 'I was fearing death because the doctors didn't have a clue what was going on with me. My heart felt like it was going to stop on occasions... lymph nodes like golf balls. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 'Even when they found out what was wrong they couldn't do much about it. Your body itself has to recover on its own. There's no cure. I was told that potentially I'd never recover, and that looked pretty likely.' With chronic fatigue setting in for two years, anxiety and an over-reliance on anti-depressants, Kebbie's life continued spiralling. The agent - a family friend - had now long gone; Kebbie was never paid for his year at Vicente Calderon. The monetary problems would probably not have magnified had relations with his father not reached a point of no return at aged 12, but at this juncture he had far more pertinent issues. 'I went through a really dark period when I was recovering,' he says. 'I had dark thoughts, thinking "what's the point? If I'm not playing football then let's end it now". That went through my head many times.' The word isn't used, but it doesn't need to be. Kebbie interjects before the following questions's end: 'I was very close... very close. Christmas 2013 was the closest. I'd gone through different scenarios in my head, different ways of doing it. 'I remember sitting in the kitchen once with a knife on my main vein in my arm thinking "might as well do it". 'It's weird thinking back to it now - I'm in such a different place mentally. It's like an outer-body experience, it wasn't me. I suppose I had post-traumatic stress, how quickly everything had been taken away. 'People don't understand what chronic fatigue is. I'd like to raise awareness about it to be honest, now I believe it exists. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 'Forget about training, just getting up in a morning, going to the shops and coming back saw me sleeping for four hours after. It was a battle to do anything. I was napping all the time - hours at a time. I could sleep forever. You feel like your muscles are wasting away.' Kebbie credits his mum Maggie, motivational expert Floyd Woodrow, radiographer Andrew Cross and ex-girlfriend Emily Naylor for creating a tight support group. Since Atletico there has been a short spell at Hull where he readily admits to only being '60 per cent fit' and still suffering with ME, trials at countless clubs - including Preston North End and Burton Albion, both almost signing him in the summer - and training at Manchester United late last year. He enjoys a strong relationship with head of academy recruitment Derek Langley, who organised the spell, and there is a notion Kebbie could end up at his boyhood club after a season or two of solid football. 'There has always been interest from United,' he says. 'I had a brief conversation with Ryan Giggs. That was an incredible moment for me... to just shake hands. Nicky Butt, too, watched me play for the reserves at United. It was a dream - an incredible experience. 'You'd have thought with me going to United and having met Giggs the move to Salford would have come from that. It didn't! It's strange how I've ended up there given the Class of 92 own them. Some things just happen. I'm hoping they can advise me well, and they can put me in touch with the next step.' There may be much more to Kebbie's present than becoming a key member of the Class of 92's XI, but they are becoming his future - his beaming Whatsapp picture with idol Gary Neville will tell you that.
