Years ago, I knew a girl who had worked at a pub near Preston Park and she said that Aldridge, Eric Nixon and some other “billy big nuts” were regulars at the pub. They’d sit at the biggest table in the middle and just click their fingers and shout “drinks”. None of them would get up to the bar and ask. She said they were a really horrible arrogant group and just made absolute pricks of themselves. So much so, that one afternoon Nixon had an argument with quite a handy local lad who followed Nixon into the toilets and beat the shit out of him