Foxy_Dread
Chris Galvin lived up our road and used to go jogging every day, he jogged with a limp. Both he and his brother went to my school long before me. When I was in the 6th form I played 2nd eleven football, I was crap, but none of us took it seriously. The first eleven won the Yorkshire Cup and were excellent. The only time they had won it before was in the very early 70s when Tony Galvin played for the team. There was an Italian kid who had supposedly had a trial with Fiorintina called Chopra and he played for the first eleven. The teacher who took the first eleven taught me History A level. I was stood next to him watching the first eleven one day and I said to him.
"Chopra is a good player, would you say he is better than Tony Galvin was at his age". He answered it very diplomatically. He said, " I have watched schoolboy football across the North of England for over 12 years and I have never seen a better player than Tony Galvin."
I remember thinking, I suppose if you play alongside Hoddle and Ardiles and play in a couple of Cup finals you were probably shit hot at school.
