Rob Tolfrey must have been sorely provoked to do anything like that. He was our youth team keeper when Gavin was our youth team manager more than a decade ago. His dad watched him play regularly and is a great bloke too, and at one time was chairman of the Kent League club Holmesdale, who play at Bromley Common.
I often bumped into Ray Tolfrey more recently as he lived about 100 yards from where I worked in Addiscombe and he always had time for a chat. A few years ago Rob spotted me in the Builders Arms near East Croydon and said hello. He'd been on the bench for Crawley, who were then in Conference South, that day and had quite a long chat about the Hamlet and what it was like at Crawley. I think they'd had a points deduction for entering administration, had to cobble together a squad that wasn't reallygood enough, and were odds on to be relegated; but they had the ex-Palace player Dave Woozley a the time, and I remember Rob saying he was so inspirational he just galvanised the whole team to believe they could stay up, which they eventually did.
If we're ever in need of an experienced keeper I'd be delighted to have Rob back at the Hamlet.
