Hitchin Town mention
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Hitchin Town mention
Possibly old news to some of you on here but I got a new book in the post today about The Fall and was surprised to see Hitchin Town mentioned in this piece about non league football by writer / musician Bob Stanley
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I knew about this but the info is a bit wrong...it was club president Syd Stapleton that talked about the illegal payments and Laurie Scott was not dismissed because of it. Scott went because of decline on the pitch.
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I probably already read about this in you book Neil!
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There was a happy ending to this, when Syd's sine die suspension was lifted after just three years, and Laurie continued until 1968. A Clacton FC player I knew explained to me the concept of 'boot money'; in the fifties he would find a fiver placed in his boot after a game. Widespread shamateurism.....