Walsall's Greatest – Tony Richards and The Saddlers' Glory Years

At the end of the 1953/54 season, Walsall Football Club finished bottom of the Third Division South and applied for re-election to the Football League for a third consecutive year. Five months later, manager Frank Buckley offered 20 year old Tony Richards a four-week trial.

This book tells the story of how Richards and his team-mates changed Walsall from a music hall joke into a team challenging for a place in the top tier of English football. In three seasons, the club went from playing a Fourth Division league match in front of 2,366 people at Gateshead to facing Liverpool in front of an Anfield crowd of 42,229 in the Second Division.

Including testimony from Walsall players Keith Ball, Ray Wiggin, Trevor Foster, Stan Bennett and Nick Atthey, this book contains a detailed account of the Saddlers' Glory Years and the impact of the man voted by the club's supporters as Walsall's Greatest Ever Player. This edition published in 2022.

Size: 156mm x 234mm – 237 pages.