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The following photo and memory are courtesy of Joe Wilson, from Wrexham...

In 1977, the year Johan Cruyff scored two goals at the old Wembley Stadium to beat England, a friend of mine who was news editor of De Gelderlander newspaper from Nijmegen, Holland, invited me to take a football team from the Wrexham Technical College (the Tech) to play his newspaper's team at Nijmegen F.C.'s First Division ground prior to a home game. (As a "revenge match" for the international result).

We arrived at his home by minibus to stay in sleeping bags on the floor for the first and fourth nights of the trip, while staying the middle two nights nearby with friends of Hans and his wife Rinske.

At breakfast on the next day - the match day, our game's tactics and playing positions could not be agreed, so to stop disputes I decided to experiment with a new formation, the one-eight-one. I would be centre forward, Hans Jacobs, the Gelderlander manager would play full back and everybody else would play midfield. The 1-8-1 was born!

Even though the ball only hit and bounced off me twice (I wasn't the world's best striker) the Tech won 11-1 (or thereabouts) and we were well cheered by the Dutch crowds arriving for the First Division game. The rest of the trip is somewhat difficult to remember but we all arrived safely home three days later.

• When we arrived in Holland the newspaper publicised our match on boarding like this:

Cruff is God - England 0 Holland 2

Revenge match today at the stadium 1pm

The Gelderlander V Wrexham Tech

(In both Dutch and English)

Believe it or not it's a true story, though if you enquire of the participants, they may well exaggerate things but not the score nor the celebrations which took place. Nor a few other things but as they say, what happens in Holland, stays in Holland. Though a couple of the Tech's team did go back later to spend a holiday with the people they had stayed the middle two days with.

Caption: Back row from left: Hans Jacobs (manager - Gelderlander), Budgie Zawastowicz (Penley), Geoff Peate (goalkeeper - Penley), Paul Lloyd (Rhos), Kelvin ?, Billy Taylor (Bala) and Max Novak (Penley - ex-Liverpool FC). Front row: Mike Dikins (Wrexham), Jack Novak (Penley), Roy Davies (Bala) and Joe Wilson (sports lecturer at the Tech and the bus driver). Photo courtesy of Joe Wilson, from Wrexham