Cat may know this or someone with a good memory of Wire games going back to the 80`s.

I`m after the answer to a question to do with Brian Bevan.

Their was a testimonial game at Wilderspool which i think was sometime in the 80`s where Brian Bevan featured, Parry Gordon`s maybe ?

Brian Bevan featured in this game, he must have been in his 50`s at the time, i remember the players letting him score a try and the place erupted.

Does anyone know which game this was as its come up in a topic of conversation, i was at the game but i can`t remember exactly what the occasion was.

rob i'd answer this question however i can't kick a ball into a 10 metre squared area from 20 metres away.


that does ring a few bells though.

Don't know the answer to that, but I can remember Bev playing for a team in the Works Comp that we set up in the early seventies.

My dad thinks it was against Other Nationalities and that Brian scored 2 tries.

He also thinks it was about 1984.

I get told Bevan stories all the time from my grandad and dad.

That should qualify you as a kicking coach at the club going on saturdays performance from our kickers ... Get your CV in

i tell you where i remember that from, the old house of pain fanzine did a piece on the great one when he died and i'm pretty sure it had a photo of the last time here in a testimonial game. I wonder if i've still got that.

rob think the game you are on about was jim challinors testimonial iirc mi dad took me to that game that was the one and only time i seen beven,

Pretty sure that was the game any of our older viewers will put me right on this..

Lister, 84 sounds about the right time.... Does your dad know if it was a testimonial game and if so whose testimonial. I was fortunate to talk to Brian Bevan before that game as he was walking up the stairs where snookers used to be with Reg Bowden heading into the presidents lounge before the game, he was a true gentleman and an all time great.

It was either Parry Gordon's or possibly John Bevan's.

Think it was 1977 and it was Denis Curling's testimonial.

You're older than I thought Rob if you remember attending that game. The common photo that you see is the one with both Brian and John Bevan on.

It was for Dennis Curling after he broke his neck.

It was well after that Paul. Snookers wasn`t around then and i remember meeting Brian Bevan on the stairs of Snookers as he was heading into the presidents lounge to give a talk to people that had paid for a pre game dinner as part of the event.

I was at that game too. Deffo Denis Curling

Bev was born in 1924, if it was the Gordon 20 year match he would have been Sixty.

If it's any help, Parry Gordon signed on his sixteenth Birthday on 17.2.61, so his 20 year testimonial was 1981.