Dorking fan, 54, answers call to play in goal as club wrestles with injury crisis

 

• Terry Dunn to face AFC Totton after 28 years in retirement

• ‘Playing in goal is like riding a bike – you never forget it’

Fifty-four-year-old Terry Dunn’s leisurely Saturday lie-in and afternoon trip to watch his beloved Dorking Wanderers has been scrapped this week. Instead of cheering the National League South side on from behind the goal against AFC Totton, he has answered the Surrey club’s emergency call and will put his well-worn goalkeeping gloves back on after 28 years in retirement and take his place between the sticks.

Dunn, whose former clubs include the now extinct North Holmwood and who was a multiple promotion winner with several local clubs before hanging up his gloves in 1997, is joining the playing squad on a temporary basis … till Monday when Dorking can get in a new keeper and solve their injury crisis.

Upon signing for the Wanderers, Dunn said: “Playing in goal is like riding a bike – you never forget it. I still regularly play walking football. As a Wanderers fan, no one will be trying harder than me to keep a clean sheet on Saturday.”

The club chair and first-team manager, Marc White, added: “In an era where passion comes in low quantities, what Terry lacks in mobility, he’ll make up for in heart – and for one game, we’re just going to have to get on with it.”

Fans can expect a new loan goalkeeper to be announced next week, reportedly joining the club on a four-week deal.