BOB BEVAN’S Cat Stats

PAYING players had been going on since a ball was first kicked. Indeed, Scarborough’s departure from the Northern League in 1910 was allegedly marred by suggestions of professionalism.
Somehow it just seemed to get worse in the Swinging Sixties.
It was the end of deference to public figures – and we have to suppose greater disposable income meant more pound notes being stuffed in boots.
Bishop Auckland had ruled the 1950s but now the honours would be spread around a little more with several newcomers doing well.
Whitley Bay, who had joined at the e...