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Alan Hodgkinson. Between the Sticks

Between the Sticks

Alan Hodgkinson MBE

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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ‘HODGEY’

For sixty years Alan has operated at the highest level of football. People talk of legends of sport, but often the term is used without the recipient having the credibility and stature to merit such a description. In the case of Alan Hodgkinson there is absolutely no doubt he is truly deserving of the accolade.

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In the event my time with the Colliery Welfare team was short-lived. After twenty or so games I was approached by non-League Worksop Town and, keen to try my hand at a higher level of football, signed for a club where, unbeknown to me, serendipity would shape my future career and life.

For working-class people there was no such thing as fashion in 1952, after all, what could you possibly wear during rationing? We relied on functional clothes, mostly woollen hand-me-downs, previously worn by parents, older siblings or, in many instances, both. In the early fifties a young person’s taste in fashion was dictated by what was least itchy.

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