So much arguing and shouting was going on among some Weare Giffard players in the second half of their North Devon Senior League game at home to Ilfracombe Town Reserves that the referee halted the game and ordered the Grasshoppers ‘Cut it out or else….’

The incident had a repercussion following the game when the Chairman Walter Heddon told the players concerned that they either had to mend their ways or go somewhere else for their football. Weare Giffard started off well with a goal scrambled by Kenny Keen in the first minute and were unlucky not to be leading by five or six goals at the interval despite the fact that Combe Reserves played well in defence. The visitors won 4-1 but the Grasshoppers largely beat themselves through the evaporation of team spirit in the second period. 

Every night during the previous week the club chairman had been out looking for a goal-keeper to sign to replace the injured Jackie Ebsworthy and between the sticks on Saturday Weare Giffard had 16 year old Michael Grigg, better known as a rugby player, but who played well and could not be blamed for the shots that beat him. 

Gazette article dated 7 March 1958