Dont Screw Up Hon. Sec. The Omnidirectional Ramblings Of A Non-League Football Secretary

Stan Strickland became secretary of Lancashire club Burscough FC in December 1992 and retired as secretary of Anglesey club Glantraeth FC in May 2017.Stan takes a sometimes personal, sometimes serious and sometimes irreverent look back over those 25 years.Those years included some of the greatest experiences of his life from being part of one of the biggest miracles in English non-league football history to dealing with some of Hollywood's biggest hitters and an Oscar nominated movie star.Then there was the goalie desperate for a pee, an official in Africa threatened with an umbrella, a winner of FIFA's highest honour, players named Cabbage, Pigeon and Chicken, the 42 bus with the outside toilet. It's all here.Learn the mischief Steven Gerrard got up to, find out why Billy Corkhill got annoyed, meet the world's hardest one punch boxer, discover the early days of Magic Daps, why Stan was in the mood for dancing and take lunch in the Welsh village famous for LSD.Stan Strickland sets out to entertain and put a few records straight, pulls no punches at times yet overriding all else is his great sense of achievement, of 25 years well spent in the game he loves.