We are playing Blackburn on Boxing Day and this brought back memories of a match I was at on Boxing Day 1953,we were playing West Brom and in those they announced the teams over the tannoy system.You can imagine our surprise when they announced we had 2 new players and it was the first we knew.We had signed John Evans an inside forward and Frank Lock a full back,both were signed from Charlton Athletic.You see in those days our manager was Don Welsh and he used to play for Charlton.I think we drew 3 each but stand to be corrected and I will say John Evans and Frank Lock did not do a bad job for us,in fact John Evans scored 5 goals in one match but the details are a bit vague without doing some research.I apologise if some of you have read this before but seeing as it is boxing day I thought I would tell the story again. By the way there had been nothing in the papers or on the radiop indicating we were going to sign the 2 players.
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