YouTube video on England's channel with Stones. Features Bobby Hassell and Ronnie Branson from Oakwell.
Talking to one of the kids in school about him today- said he was from my home town! His teacher turned round and said mine too - turns out she's from Hoyland! Small world- dad was a season ticket holder until last year!
Loved it when someone disparagingly said coming back to play for Barnsley later on, and him just casually and emphatically said he'd do that no problem. Well done John Stones
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www...ey-beckenbauer-yorkshiremen-heart-southgates/ That's a good article about the twenty years Stones and Maguire have known one another. It even mentions how Maguire started at us, which is a nice thing to bring up.
A credit to our town. I didn’t know about him contacting Branson after the cancer diagnosis but I’d heard about him coming back & speaking to the academy lads. He still meets up with Clark, Rose, RNL & some of the others from that youth team that did so well too. Seems a well grounded lad for a superstar. I remember Henry Winter once commenting on how lovely his parents are as well & that they’ve been all over Europe & the world following his career.