YOUR CHANCE TO OWN SALFORD FOOTBALL MEMORABILIA AND HELP SALFORD SCHOOL BOYS

Cast your mind back to May 1989 there was a football match being played at Old Trafford, no not Manchester United but they are linked into this story.

Salford Schoolboys are playing the second leg of their match against a robust St Helens schoolboy team in the final of the E.S.F.A Trophy. and who is making his Old Trafford debut, not for Manchester United obviously...a young Ryan Wilson, later to be known world wide as Ryan Giggs and the first Welshman to Captain, England Schoolboys.

We were contacted by John Peters one of the officials at the club who told us that a box of unused programmes for that historic match have turned up in their archives and that the plan is to sell them off with all proceeds going to help establish their Salford Schoolgirls team which I think is a splendid idea.

John gave us some background into the history of the team:

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"After the war in 1947, Salford became the first Schoolboy Association to win the coveted English Schools Trophy beating Leicester Schools by 2-0.

Over 35,000 people attended the game at Old Trafford, Captaining the team on the day was Geoff Bent, who along with Eddie Coleman (his Salford Team mate) unfortunately died in the Munich Air disaster of 1958.

In 1989 the boys found themselves back at Old Trafford in another final against St Helens. Captaining the team on this occasion was Ryan Giggs, a pupil at Moorside High School who was also the England Schoolboy captain at U15s.

We unfortunately lost that game but welcomed back the players from 1947 along with their teacher, Mr Jock Lambert, to Old Trafford.

We had to wait until 2000 to regain our title as English Schools Champions beating Cardiff Schools at Old Trafford once again."

 

These programmes are surely collectors pieces and a must for any fan of Salford, Manchester United or any football fan and they are going on sale for the bargain price of £5 plus £2 post and package.

You can contact John on Facebook or pick up a copy in person for £5 at the next Salford Schoolboy match played in Broughton, failing that contact me at newsdesk@salford.media and we shall pass on your details, so dig deep and help out!