Tony Macedo - Reluctant Hero

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Tony

Surely Tony Macedo was still playing for us when Peter Bonetti won his first cap. Are you suggesting that by then - 1966 - Mac was no longer of potential international standard?

Macedo declined badly by about 1965 when he was only in his mid twenties. By then he wasn't good enough to play in the 1st Division. By all accounts he was superb earlier but that's before my time.

It sounds like you saw him after he came back from the head injury I mentioned earlier. He definitely wasn't the same player anymore.

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We have had this argument with Mr Gilroy so many times that I often believe that he must have got Tony Macedo mixed up with Perry Digweed or someone.
In the days when Tony played in front of 25,000 people, there would be 24,999 who would worship Macedo and then there was Mr Gilroy. 092.gif

[TonyGilroy]

That sounds about right.

I became a Fulham supporter aged 7 in 1958 when everyone in the country was willing post Munich Man U to beat Fulham and reach the cup final.

I was the only Fulham supporter in the playground.