Tony Gill
   
Name: Tony Gill,

Position: Forward, in a strange dichotomy never quite sure if he was on the dark side or not. Long time member of the club and former wild child and member of the crazy gang

Most likely to be… In the oppositions D, had an excellent scoring record and has claim to being the Charlie George of Prescot back in the seventies

Most likely to say: Can you get my suit back for me ?

Scary Connections Played in the company of the Doc, Mad Dog, Paddy, Stallion,

Interesting Facts about Tony

Fact 1 Never fully recovered from the shock of sending a young and underage Bert to the bar to get a round in with the words ‘and get one for yourself’ with a twenty pound note. Bert did but because he bought himself a bottle of Chianti the 96p change did not go down well. The consequence was that Tony recovered his losses over the next four years by being first out of the taxi and last to the bar. May be related to fact number 2.

Fact 2 Tony was the only member of the hockey club to own a Porsche

Fact 3 Tony is still in the Guinness book of records for naked mini bus surfing. On July 6th 1987 Tony held onto the back step of a Ford Transit mini bus for 21 minutes covering a distance of 11 miles through the Gloucestershire countryside totally naked. Interestingly that was also the final time he was recorded as being the last one to be changed.

Fact 4 Evidence of the complex nature of Tony was the time he spent on retreat in the Lake District. Copies of his most famous ballad ‘When the Tourists have Gone’ are still admired by the countryside alliance and indeed the Sons of Glendower. The song is a battle cry for the innocence of lost pastoral lifestyle as a consequence of the influx of filthy tourists in the hidden valleys of the Lake District. Ironically at the time Tony was the proprietor of a 20 bed hotel in Ambleside.

Fact 5 Oldest member of the side that got to the Lancashire cup final as evidenced in the team photograph. For those who still have the photograph Tony is at the back on the right in jeans.