Football

Now that the Football Season is here again I'm not expecting too many high scoring games.
In the dim and distant past, however, that was not so, as the records show. The games I
like to remember were in the mid-thirties which were played at very junior level; Southampton
Schoolboys, for instance. In those days they used to play in the English Schools' Shield
Competition, and I recall two matches in particular. One result being - Southampton 18
(eighteen), King's Norton 0, the other being Southampton 21 (twenty-one), Wareham 0.
In this Wareham game, Catlin, the Southampton centre-forward scored (if my memory serves
me right), 17 (seventeen) goals.
Is there anybody out there who can confirm this for me either from old football records or
maybe, like me, was actually at those matches? Don't spoil things by telling me I must have
been dreaming. Catlin, I believe, went on to play for Portsmouth where he became just
another nonentity in the footballing world.