A tea lady got you signed by Gerry Francis at Bristol Rovers. True or false?
A man called Gordon Rowland owned the carpet shop in St Blazey, where I was playing non-league football, and he knew Vi Harris, the tea lady at Bristol Rovers. He rang her and said, “We have a decent young goalie down here who perhaps you should be looking at.” Vi spoke to Gerry and he replied, “Get him up and we’ll have a look, then.” My family had driven from Cornwall to watch the trial but nobody said anything to us in the clubhouse afterwards, so we were heading off when Gerry came darting out, saying, “Where are you going?!” He asked what I was earning and I told him that
