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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

You are perfectly correct Jay, I seem to remember Sunderland trying to do that in the '50s - think i saw them at Ewood when Shackleton played, but it didn't work out - mind you that really is the dim and distant past P.S. Denis Irwin came from Oldham after their Cup run and £1M for Cantona, cheaper than S & S - either of them, what a buy. Arguably the most influential player for decades.

Packed a hell of a punch too, or was that a kick as for Irwin I know he was at Leeds didn't realise he stopped of at Oldham for a brew on the way to the T of M