A couple of memories from when I was young regarding Tony, the first one was one of those weird ones that just stuck with me and it was simply this, mid-late 70's, midweek evening game , horrendous weather, torrential rain and blowing an absolute gale.
I was stood at the front of the Kippax near the half way line, think Tony was playing right back or right midfield, someone from the other side of the pitch fired a long ball over to him, ball around waist height, I had a perfect view of the flight and speed, and it was all over the place, like one of those cheap ass plastic balls you used to get, and I remember thinking, FFS no way is he going to control that, it's going to skim off his knee or something and fly off into the crowd, but Tony just killed it dead and didn't even break stride, funny how that's always stayed with me !
Second was another midweek game, possibly Leicester, winning 2-0, they came back to lead 2-3 and on came Tony, equalizing at the Platt lane end hammering the ball from close range into the roof of the net in the dying seconds, I remember thinking, if there hadn't been a net, it would have ended up at Nell Lane.
Good solid player Tony who never let us down.