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.
Iain Hesford
Sixer asks: must we go to Leicester?
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 …