On Parade - with John Hendrie

 Dave Baldwin picked up a couple of new nicknames after the charity game we played at Thackley in aid of the three lads killed on the motorway coming back from Wembley.

I’d conveniently pulled my hamstring playing a few weeks before so I offered to manage the Bradford City team against the Sunday League side that the lads played for.

We had the likes of Wethers, Jakes, Stuart and Jamie Lawrence playing as well as Mark Lawn and Dave, who’s the club’s director of operations.

I’d only taken about two steps into the ground when Dave came striding towards me with this big sheet of paper in his hand. It was the team!

He reminded me of Geoffrey Richmond when Stuart first got the caretaker job and being handed the chairman’s team for Saturday.

So when I got in the dressing room, much to Dave’s disgust, I asked if anyone knew our new signing Dave Richmond!

He’d not only decided the team but had himself down to take penalties, corners, free-kicks and throw-ins. He was doing everything.

It was quite a funny afternoon because of the state of the pitch. The rain was bucketing down so it was like a swimming pool. The lads were absolutely caked in mud.

Dave, who hasn’t got a hair on his head, went flying into a puddle and came out with this mud splodge that made him look like Gorbachev! The poor bloke had no idea why everyone was falling about laughing and calling him Gorby afterwards.

Mark Lawn received one or two hospital balls, as you might expect. I tried to get him left back – in the dressing room – but instead he went on the right.

He did go on one overlap and needed the number 58 bus to get back!

But it was great to raise a few bob for the families concerned and the game was played in a really good spirit.