A miner s son who became a globe-trotting sales director has revealed how he became friends with comedy king Sir Ken Dodd, who gave him two of his famous tickling sticks. During his long career Geoff Williams, raised in Llay, near Wrexham and now living in Southport, also rubbed shoulders with stellar names like singing superstar Sir Tom Jones, Hollywood actors Richard Burton and Jack Nicholson and Kop hero Bill Shankly. Another claim to fame was that the 88-year-old persuaded Leeds United to allow the FA Cup to go on show at the British Legion in Llay. Now he has put pen to paper about his extraordinary life in his newly-published autobiography,
Was there football pre-1992 â Part 5
Jump to last Continuing with the theme that football was indeed alive and kicking before the TV companies hijacked it, I have endeavoured to capture some of the highlights since I first visited Goodison Park in 1948 as a 10-year-old schoolboy.
Season 1977-78
Pat Jennings left Tottenham Hotspur after 13 years and signed for Arsenal on 11 August.
Don Revie threatened to sue the Daily Mirror for libel after the paper printed a series of claims alleging that Leeds United had tried to fix matches when he was in charge.
Sir Alf Ramsey returned to football as caretaker manager of Birmingham City, but he resigned in a dispute with the Board over whether Trevor Francis should be placed on the transfer list.
Bootle s oldest pub The Jawbone Tavern s two centuries of history
A former Liverpool FC title winner s fight to serve his customers is just one tale from the Jawbone s past
The Jawbone Tavern in Bootle. (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
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