Quote Originally Posted by Rontomuk View Post
Alan Ball was in the Southampton team that played Cardiff on 29th March 1978 city won 1-0 the same score as the Gareth Bale one that's what I thought he was asking, but you could be right reading it again it sounds like it is saying the player was 17yrs old in 70s when in fact Ball was 17yrs old in 1962.
Yeah, I can see what you did there. TOBW says this player was actually 18 when he played in a 1-0 defeat here, he was 17 when he made his debut but that wasn't against us. Went on to become an international.