Page 25 - Studio International - May 1971

`An Evergreen Memory' 1969

Soccer-mad policeman Leonard Walton dug up the football ground. Gently, Leonard, 57, dug season. They kept us in the Third Division.'
a memory yesterday. up the turf under the Hamil end penalty spot. His wife's two brothers who live in Canada
For 5o years he has supported Port Vale And proudly he told officials who had invited saw the game.
football club. But the three goals he saw fired him to digit: 'I'm taking this to my relatives in
from the penalty spot in a vital match were the Canada as a present.'
ones he never forgot. Mr Walton, of Rothesay Ave., Sneyd Green,
Yesterday after retiring from the Stoke- Stoke-on-Trent, said: 'The goals I never forgot
Photograph and text supplied by courtesy of the
on-Trent police after 29 years, he went along to were scored by Cyril Done in the 1955-56 Daily Mirror
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