FOLLOWING a recent interview with club legend Don Rogers about his 1969 League Cup exploits, Adver Sport asked the 76-year-old a handful of questions from readers – the best of which are below.

Q: Who was the best player you ever played with in your career?

A: I would probably have to say Stan Bowles at Queens Park Rangers. He played for England, but he was a bit of an enigma. A unique person and player. He was very good, exceptionally good. So good on the ball, he had tremendous skill. We used to have to put cotton wool around his ankles because he got kicked so much.

Q: Where and when was the coldest you’ve ever been at a football match?

A: I think it might be Barrow in ‘68-69 because we were allowed to wear gloves that day – it was the only time we ever wore gloves in a match. And it was extremely cold, let me tell you! I think there was still a bit of ice on the pitch when we played!

Q: Did Danny Williams ask you to increase your work rate at the start of the 1968-69 season?

A: *laughs* No, not at all. He used to put a weight belt on me before training, but he never said anything like that to me. He’d just say: “on you go, Don. See you at twenty to five.”

Q: How many times did you head the ball – because fans used to cheer when you did – and how many headed goals did you score?

A: I think I scored two. It was one or two that I scored with my head. But in the first part of my career, I was a winger who was putting balls into the box rather than getting on the end of them. I think it was two – but out of 180-something, two isn’t bad I don’t think! It was brilliant at the County Ground though, if I headed it then I got a big cheer. When I started out as a left winger, it was my job to keep my left foot on the touchline, so it wasn’t very often that I got into the box to head it.

Q: Did Bill Shankly (Liverpool manager) say anything to you after Town’s 2-0 League Cup victory in 1970?

A: I think he wrote something in the paper, but he didn’t say anything to me, no. He was embarrassed because we’d beaten them, so it wasn’t good. Little old Swindon had beaten them, and he didn’t like that, he wasn’t happy at all.

Q: Which current Swindon Town player would you have most enjoyed playing alongside and why?

A: I suppose it would be Louis Reed and Jack Payne probably because I think they’re our two best players. I love the way that Reed plays, and he’s a good passer of the ball – I like him.