About the Author

Barrie Williams was the Editor of the Nottingham Evening Post when, in 1984, he gave Tommy Lawton a job as a soccer writer. The two men became firm friends. Williams left the newspaper industry in 2005 after 43 years as a journalist, which included editing three leading regional daily titles. Tom Lawton Jnr. has worked in the banking industry since leaving school in 1974. His sporting career was hampered by a snapped cruciate ligament at the age of 21, but he played rugby for Leicester Tigers, Southend, Essex and Captained United Banks of England. Married to Gillian, in 1991, they have 14 year old twins, Anthony and Zoe