Amidst all the pre-Covid journalistic and internet chatter about whether the all-conquering Liverpool team’s season was the greatest ever, various alternative candidates were put forward. These ranged from Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ 2003-4 season to treble-winning Man United (1998-9), or early Mourinho Chelsea (2004-5) to late Guardiola Man City (2017-18). Contenders from the pre-PL antediluvian era included the original Prestonian ‘Invincibles’ 1888-9 season, Spurs’ Double-winning side (1960-61), and any number of incarnations of Arsenal in the Thirties or Liverpool in the late Seventies and early Eighties. However, there was one significant and inexcusable omission from these lists: the treble-winning Willerby Carr Lane County Primary School’s ‘A’ Team of 1960-61.
My attempt to address this unforgivable oversight begins with a favourite photo:

It was taken at the end of the East Riding Junior Schools Cup Final in April 1961 at Anlaby CP School, after we had just vanquished the hosts 3-1 in the final. We were unbeaten all season winning the Beverley and Haltemprice Junior Football Association Division 1, the Beverley and Haltemprice Junior Football Association Knock-out Cup and the East Riding Junior Schools Cup. A unique treble: something that Real Madrid, the only contemporary team that even came close, could never match.