Leverstock Green Football Club is sorry to announce the passing of Steve Robinson.
We send our sincere condolences to Steve’s wife Lyn and daughters Fiona and Emma.
Steve joined the Club in the early 1960’s and played for the First Team throughout that decade and into the ‘70’s. He played with other ‘notable characters’ Pete Metcalfe, Rod Saville, Dave Taylor and many others. There is a Club photograph from 1964 with Steve alongside his colleagues. A typical example of the camaraderie at that time: Steve was down with a hurt knee, on came Charlie Rowe (trainer), “where’s it hurt Steve”? “ere” says Steve, Charlie promptly whopped the sponge on Steve’s ear!!
He admirably filled the role of Secretary from the mid ‘70’s into the 1980’s. During that time, he produced an excellent ‘book’ of the Club’s playing record of the ‘modern era’, remembering we were formed in 1895.
Steve was the usual ‘football in winter / cricket in summer’ person. One of his favourite venues was Fenners at Cambridge University for the season’s opening fixture. Usually accompanied by John Baldry, who was Treasurer at that time, they would also travel to Northampton and to Lords on many occasions.
It was Steve who researched and put together the original application for our floodlights, surviving a Public Hearing in the Village Hall and a seven-year wait, approval was given 1998/99.
A solid Club Man and an honest ‘fair play’ person, he will be missed but remembered down Pancake Lane.
(Bill Dawes)