I lived two doors from Keith Burkinshaw. Do the football fans on this site remember him? He managed several teams including Spurs and Newcastle United. One match day he saw me walking down the road on the way to see Workington FC and offered me a lift which I gratefully accepted. He was Workington's left half at the time and being the pleasant man that he was he even offered me a free ticket to the game. I declined the ticket on the basis that Workington were pretty broke at that time [average match attendance c 2,400]. He must have smiled inwardly at the seventeen year old's concern about the club's finances! I suggested to him that Workington should sign George Darwin the inside forward that had played for several teams, including Derby County and Barrow, but nothing became of it. In any case Workington already had a good schemer, that is Jimmy Moran, but I was concerned about the team if Jimmy became injured. A few years later I found out that George Darwin had relatives in Sacriston or was it Witton Gilbert?
It was during the mid sixties that Workington gave Chelsea the absolute runaround in the League Cup but without actually beating them. It ended 2-2. I recall Peter Osgood was making his debut that night and that Keith made a faulty back pass that enabled Chelsea to take the lead.
WB
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