Jimmy Adamson Team Of The Seventies-Part Three

They had sold Dobson in August of 1974 and then Nulty later on. Had they not sold them it is quite possible they could well have won the title.
“I want to build a team,” said Adamson to Paul Fletcher. “Bob Lord wants to build a stadium.” In that remark lay the answer to the decline of the team and the beginning of the end for Jimmy Adamson. Lord would always maintain that continued selling of players was necessary to pay the generous wages that players were paid. Gates and commercial income nowhere near covered the outgoings. Supporters preferred to think that the sale of Dobson paid for the new Bob Lord Stand. But the old one gave Lord sleepless nights, his daughter Barbara once told me, and a surveyor’s report had indicated that it was in a poor state with twisted and buckling girders. Lord knew that it had to be replaced.