By George - it's Frannie P

As soon as Imogen Church checked out....two ghosts from Broughton past checked in. And it was only Franny P, the man who once had his own church and George 'the peanut head' Ectoplasm who wanted to drop you a line to say hello.

Take it away boys....

Hi Alan - this is (Father) Frank here.

I've had a word with George and mentioned this to this is very much a joint effort. Broughton seems like yonks ago and so scuse my poor memory. The main things we can collectively remember are:- the halcyon days of the Kop and the Town End under John Beck and Les Chapman when a group of us including you, Pete, Farmer and I think even Morgan, hit the Kop End formany a rendition of 'Come on you whites' every time we got a corner, a pie and a good natter. How can we ever forget the twists and turns of Tony Ellis, the warm up of Mikie Flynn, the trackie bottoms of Mickey Norbury, the booing of Graham Shaw, the gloveless saves of Simon Farnworth. runs from Simon Burton and the falling over of Lee Cartwright. You and Pete were so sad I seem to remember you went on reserve games too under the stewardship of Big Fat Sam and his barmy army.

Also we seem to recall you being very much the ring-leader in the infamous Morgan Holden vs. Darren Burrows fight near Farmer Davies' house? Do you remember it? He was your Don King to Andrew Porter's Barry Hearn.

It took weeks of planning that fight did and kept us all entertained when we weren't in Tom's rave parlour. I think it might have been over Vicki Catterill or some girl at school anyway. Quite a prize for the winner that one. Darren had stuffed down lots of metal bars etc in his jacket.

It was around the time of the WWF craze (pile on!!!);- Tom Davies used to have a CB radio. I think his callsign (or that of Grandad Davies) was 'Rhinestone Cowboy'. I can't remember specifics but I'm sure you and Morgan used to 'radio in' pretending to be truckers on the M6 (both Grandma Davies and Tom Davies fell for it).

Hope your wedding goes well mate and say hello to your lucky bride,

Cheers,

Frank and George

Wow. There's a blast from the past. I'll never forget that fight. I think Bruno v Tyson was on the undercard....I've tried to get hold of Tom and Morgan but no luck so far.