Whiskeytown wrote:Bobby Reid was definitely still the physio in the 80s, don't think he was ever kit man.
Think Bobby might have been kit-man in the late 80's.
Son was mascot for a game, where he had been playing BB football in the morning in teeming rain and mud, and his boots were still not dry when we got into the home dressing room at 2pm. Bobby looked at the mascot's boots, said kindly to an awestruck 8 year old " a good professional footballer always goes on with clean boots". When it was explained that there had been barely time to clean up son before grabbing lunch and driving to Douglas Park, Bobby then said " that puts a different picture on it" He then took son's boots away, somehow dried, then cleaned and polished them and returned them just in time to go out with the team for the warm-up before the game. A true gentleman and his actions made for a memorable day for both son and father.
At the old gound we did have 'The Bobby Reid Suite' in the 'new' stand extension, but were there to be a statue, who better than one of the three suggested, from the Rector, David Wilson or Bobby Reid.