We now welcome Roy Cave, another very well known local sportsman and Roy we 're just going to ask a few questions. What sort of age were you when you first got interested in sport?

Oh, I should think I was six or seven years old when I started playing football on the Tennyson Road Square there, that's where I lived like.

So you lived close to the school?

I lived close to the school but this was a piece of ground near home where we all used to kick a football around.

So really you started kicking footballs with tin cans? About six or seven years old, yes. Right, and from then where did you progress?

Played then obviously for the school, Tennyson Road school, and then I used to play in the afternoons for Rushden St. Mary's with many lads here that played for Rushden St. Mary's.

What was that - just weekends?

Just afternoon games, Saturday afternoon games and from there I went to Higham - when I was fifteen years old and then got picked up by Rushden Town and on the same season, when I was fifteen and a half, I played for Rushden Town first team, the last game of the season against Stamford Town.

And how did you feel, a young person of fifteen and a half playing a man's game with grown men?

No problem, no, no problem. They looked after me well, I played with a man that everybody knew in the town, called Lenny Pipes, who was a great man and I played with him in that, it was his last season and my first.

And who was it among those people in the team who encouraged you most in your early years?

In the early years, well I think everybody did, you I know what I mean, there wasn't anybody in particular. I just liked playing football and everybody could see I suppose I could play a little bit and everybody on the way encouraged me

And who are the characters you remember who were outstanding at that particular time?

Well, an old friend's that's just past on now, died, George Sail from Rushden Town. George played for Corby and again Lenny Pipes and the lads when we won the Central Alliance Cup, we had a great side there from Rushden. We had a terrific side, terrific atmosphere you know what I mean like, it was really good.

And you said you actually played for Kettering, is that true?

I played for Kettering Town when Jack Froggatt was manager, 1 had two seasons there, didn't quite make the grade but I played for them.

So, sort of on the fringe of it?

On the fringe, on the fringe on the first team then I came back to Rushden Town.

So you actually played for Kettering first team?

I did a couple of times yes.

Which league where they in at that time?

That was the old Southern League then, many years ago. In fact that year, not through my part, they went on to win the league that year and Jack Froggatt, ex England captain, was manager at Kettering at that time.