... Widnes penny In fact the whole of the Widnes team had not cost more than £100 at the time! They were to face up to names like Alf Ellaby Leslie Fairclough Ben Halfpenny Lou Houston Walter Groves and George Lewis Saints were the footballing outfit of their day ...

... ball they use these did a bit of tap dan- £Yenue with his wife his best ever days plastic coated cing But I didn't players Alf Ellaby he says refuse them certainlyrank8top8a8 Next May Jimmy vears later he and at half-will be 79 the oldest of never shirks ...

... messing about going for a walk on the prom’ or anything time-wasting like that They had just opened and we went straight into Alf Ellaby’s pub at the back of the Tower At three we all floated out of there into a restaurant had a huge tea and then immediately ...

... Vollenhoven’s 100 in 76 matches for St Helens and international sides However Offiah is within striking distance of St Helens’ Alf Ellaby’s 77 matches and can beat such great try-scoring legends as Brian Bevan of Warrington (84 matches) Eric Harris of Leeds ...

... in my day Offiah is already the greatest winger I have ever seen Before the war I played twice for Lancashire partnering Alf Ellaby who was a great Saints winger And that’s where you’d always find him On the wing! ‘You never know where Offiah will turn ...

... went mad but in the end he gave in and we got our money ‘Just about the only thing I can remember about the 1930 final is Alf Ellaby kicking the ball over my head to our line soon after the start If it had bounced as it should have done I would have covered ...