Help identifying autograph on Football programme

[IanXC]

I was wondering whether anyone can help identifying the autograph on the rear of this programme?

Its from Aston Villa vs West Ham on Saturday 15 January 2000!

I'm inclined to think its more likely to be Aston Villa related, but I really have no idea!

Many thanks

 

[SS4]

Not something I recognise are you sure it's not West Ham related as it looks like an Upton Park program

 

[IanXC]

Not something I recognise are you sure it's not West Ham related as it looks like an Upton Park program

Sorry, I meant its more likely to have been given to me by someone who is an Villa fan than a West Ham fan, as I know more people in that area of the country.

 

[bb21]

"Best wishes" then the name on the second line.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I know nothing about football, but the name surely has to be one of those in the list on that page and it appears to start with a C, is quite long and appears to contain an L and a W - I would therefore hazard a guess at the Colin Calderwood name being the closest fit.

Now, this might work.... try taking it to a pharmacist; they are famous for deciphering the spidery handwriting of doctors so this should be a doddle for them...

 

[user15681]

This one's stumped me. I'm normally pretty good at reading all sorts of scribble, upside down, back to front etc.

Personally, I don't think it's Colin Calderwood. Although your reasoning is logical, Peter, and you may well be right, the gap between the C and d in the autograph seems too large for just the two letters 'al'. (hope that makes sense)

In my opinion, it doesn't match any name from the West Ham or Aston Villa squads for the 99/00 season, named on that programme or not. Is it possible that it's the autograph of a retired player, famous person, manager of another team etc that happened to be in the ground at the time?

The name seems to begin with a C, although it could be an O. There also seems to be an 'ad' two thirds of the way in. It also has a lot of vertical peaks, which are typical of the letters i, j, l, m, n, r, u, v and w.