according to the 'valiant 500' he didn't play for stockport(well up to 1990 he hadn't) , he played for shrewsbury when swindon's chris kamara broke his cheekbone and his full name is James Millsop Melrose
March Jr's boyhood hero. ESPN showed an old Leicester game the other day and JM got a couple of terrific goals, playing alongside Lineker.Great hat-trick against Everton, still watch it on one of the old Finches tapes. Heard he later regretted leaving us when he did, anybody know?
He loved the club but his wife and kids had stayed in Macclesfield and he had to go back up north to be with them. Went to Leeds and then to Shewsbury. Scored 17 goals in 86/87 with NO pens - a top effort in the old Division One.
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Bloody hell Jim Melrose
Bart.....what a nice way to start the day!!!
I think he started there?
Always remember his grass allergy getting mentioned in programmes, always made me laugh, remember his hat trick at Fulham way back in early 86.
Melrose hatrick
Sheedy 2 free kicks
Mates 17th party in evening, and pulling his older sister.
happy days
I was only eleven and I still remember it
Very happy days