With my Oxford contacts I still find out about where some of the
players are,not only at Oxford you understand.I will bit by bit
recall.However,Ray Graydon came from Coventry/Villa Washington Diplomats
and became a very good Youth team manager at Oxford.Went to
Watford,they won everything,then Southampton for many years.Of course
he then managed Walsall/Bristol Rovers.Very nice guy,a real
gentleman.Les Taylor,Ex- Oxford/Watford in their "good" times is head
of Youth at Oxford.Lovely guy.Temporarily lost track of David Fogg at
the moment,anyone know where he is ? He was Youth coach at Oxford,then
moved to Everton as the Youth team manager,then he went to Shrewsbury
with Ratcliffe,then Chester with him too.Brian Horton,player at Brighton
etc.,after being manager at Man.City/Huddersfield/Port Vale etc., now
at Macclesfied.His side-kick Davis Moss with him a lot,but at
Macclesfield when Brian was at Port Vale,left Macclesfied,now doing
very well at Northwich Victoria in Conference North.One of the most
informed people I met now sadly gone,the late Maurice Evans.He knew
everyone in the game,from top stars to Youth players..anywhere in the
country.He is the one who signed Dean Saunders for virtually nothing,as
well as Ray Houghton,from West Ham reserves ! Some of the time in the
earlier years,he was manager at Reading ! Mark Jones
(Swindon/Oxford),is running football courses for Southampton,played in
the 70's onwards.I'll move on to some 60's/70's players in the future.