Remembering Iain Hesford, of Blackpool, Sunderland, Hull City and Maidstone. RIP

Iain Hesford: courtesy of therokerend.com
Iain Hesford: courtesy of therokerend.com*

Monsieur Salut writes: Iain Hesford*, SAFC’s goalkeeper in the Third Division title-winning season, has died at the cruelly young age of 54. Pete Sixsmith sent his thoughts on this sad news in the same file containing a preview of today’s game at Leicester. It would have been simple to detach and should have been by me before publication. I do so now: Iain’s passing deserves its own place on these pages and that place is not as footnote to a match preview. Now let Pete offer his condolences to the former player’s family and a short appraisal of his Roker Park time.

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Sixer asks: must we go to Leicester?

Sixer, right in Irish green. with the more conventionally attired Sobs
Sixer, right in Irish green. with the more conventionally attired Sobs

Pete Sixsmith muses over the trip to Leicester which turns out, probably through no fault of its own but more to do with a long-held student grievance, to be less than his favourite city. Incidentally, his item on the death of former Sunderland goalkeeper Iain Hesford now appears here

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