Spritely 20 Year Old Jim Farrar was
present when now Player-Manager Jono Way made his Scoring 1st
Team Debut at the age of 16 in 1993.
Jim had signed for the club at the
same age in 1988 and has been a Hampsthwaite player
ever-since.
One of the most clinical goal scorers
the club has ever seen, Young goal getter Farrar's
Hampsthwaite career has been marred with injury, including an
unprecidented double cruciate knee ligament injury!
Farrar's knees have gone under the
knife more times than a slice of toast but he has emerged from
his injury and one-time managerial nightmare a bigger person
in every sense of the word!
Famously won a season long shoot out
with goal scoring rival Jono Way in 1996 when he pipped Way to
the club's top goal scorer in the dying minutes of the 95-96
Season when he notched his 34th league goal to surpass Way's
33rd!
Stepped down from management to once
again pursue an active playing career, Farrar has formed an
early season partnership with Okopskyj in the middle of
United's defence and more recently made a goal scoring return
as Way & Farrar relived old times by turning back the
clock and standing in for the missing Brennan-Hobbs Strike
force.
Adds Drive, Grit and Determination to
the team and most importantly of all, absolutely essential for
the organisation of end-of-season trips to Scarborough!!