ONE of York City's youngest-ever line-ups was today bringing 75 years of Football League history in the city to a close.
The team to face Leyton Orient at Bootham Crescent is certainly the youngest since the John Bird era.
City statistician David Batters believed the average age of today's starting line-up at 21 is the same as the side which lined-up at Scunthorpe on March 2, 1991.
On that day the team was: Dean Kiely (aged 20), Andy McMillan (22), Wayne Hall (22), Shaun Weatherhead (20), Steve Tutill (21), Steve Bushell (18), Richard Crossley (20), Tony Barratt (25), Ian Helliwell (28), Iain Dunn (20), Glenn Naylor (18). Scunthorpe won 2-1. It was Bushell's debut.
The following week 20-year-old Jon McCarthy came in for Weatherhead as City lost 4-0 at Peterborough.
Updated: 10:58 Saturday, May 01, 2004
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