First of all, Pat Morrissey was one of several players who joined from Dartford in the late 1970s. A full-time professional with Coventry, Aldershot and Watford, he joined Hayes at the age of 31 in November 1978 and played a large part in the club’s progress to the quarter-finals of the FA Trophy. He made a total of 76+1 appearances, scoring 30 goals, before joining Slough Town for a small fee in April 1980. Thereafter he played for Hendon, and later managed Chesham United (1985) and Southall (1989-90).

Chris Mullen was a promising forward, who joined Hayes at the start of the 1962-3 season from Harmondsworth in the Uxbridge & District League. He made his debut in early September 1962 and slowly worked his way into the first team over two seasons and was a regular member of the side which reached the first round of the FA Cup in 1964 for the first time in 18 years. At the end of the season he was part of the contingent which followed Ron Clack to Harrow Town. Next season he joined Slough Town, and then played for Walton & Hersham, where Allen Batsford turndhim into a midfielder; then to Maidenhead United, before returning to Hayes in 1972. In his four seasons at Hayes he made 78 appearances and scored 34 goals, including a four-goal haul against Redhill in October 1964. After leaving Hayes finally, he captained Southall (1974-6).

When he took over from Clive Griffiths, Terry Brown decided on the policy of giving the players whom he had inherited a chance to show what they could do. One of them was Vinny Murphy from Yeading, who had played in several positions. Because of his predilection for using his left foot, Brown immediately put him at left-back. He played most of the rest of the season there, but lost his place to Mark Mallinson at the start of the next season. When Mallinson was injured at Molesey, he regained his place, but when Lee Flynn was acquired, Murphy was surplus to requirements. He had made 39+2 appearances for Hayes, scoring one goal at Grays at the end of August. He then went to Ruislip Manor.

Alan Myers was another left-back, who joined Hayes in 1990, having previously seen service with Staines, Kingstonian, Feltham and Wycombe Wanderers. He made 77+5 appearances, scoring just once, against Harlow Town in a Loctite Cup match. He left Hayes in February 1992 to join the Fire Brigade. A year later he was playing again now for Harrow Borough. 

The final entries under M are father and son – but neither played for Hayes. Daniel Mylon (1871-1928), who lived at ‘Eureka’, Austin Road, had originally come to Hayes from Norwood in 1901 as manager of JA King & Co., makers of breeze slabs, in Clayton Road. He was elected president of Botwell Mission FC in the first season after World War I. That his family was keen on football is shown by his son Don’s membership of Hayes Athletic, in whose ranks he was photographed in 1909.

His son, Edward J Mylon (1899-1952), better known as ‘Micky’, was a well-known character. When he returned home from India, as Captain Mylon, his presence and good state of health were commented on in the local newspaper. He started up a haulage company, but graduated to manufacturing breeze blocks, along the same lines as his father’s business, forming Merriman’s Filtering Media Ltd. Merriman’s reached a stage of supplying local authorities all over the south of England with graded breeze for use in sewage disposal works.  He moved his works to the Colnbrook-Staines road, where vans bearing his company’s name can be seen in the background of the film Genevieve. A love of football ran in the family, as brother Don (pictured left) had played centre-half for Hayes Athletic in the years leading up to the Great War. Micky became president of the newly renamed Hayes Football Club in 1929 on the death of his father and was always keen to lend a helping hand. In 1933, for example, he took on the role of first team manager, a post which he held for several years. All of this in spite of running the family firm of haulage contractors in Blyth Road. In 1950, he once again was elected president of the club, taking over the secretarial duties in October. He also provided the clinker with which the terracing at Church Road was topped off. His premature death in June 1952 came as a blow to the club, and his funeral at St Mary’s Church was attended by players Ron Gadsden and Jack Rawlings, and by Jimmy Ogden and Charlie Cass.