Would-be history makers fall amid controversy
Saturday 1st March 2008, 9:29AM GMT.
North players turn to celebrate ‘Sid’ Le Prevost’s first equaliser against Bridport in March 1978. (Picture by John Brenton, 0542046)
WHAT do Chelsea’s Wayne Bridge and Shaun ‘Sid’ Le Prevost have in common?
Other than footballers, one is a rampaging left-back on 50 grand plus a week, the other a retired amateur goal poacher with North who, just like Bridge at Wembley last weekend, saw a ball hit his hand and be cruelly punished from the penalty spot in a crucial cup game.
In Sid’s case, the occasion was the semi-finals of the 1987-8 Dorset County Senior Cup when North were just one win away from becoming the first Guernsey side to reach a county final.
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