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4th November 1967: Annie Walker viewed herself as being a student of human nature from her lofty perch as one of the premier residents of Weatherfield and she determined to investigate for herself one of the social issues that began in the late 1960s - that of soccer hooliganism. She attended a football match at Maine Road with several others from Coronation Street but found herself the subject of abuse afterwards from two of the opposing team's supporters. She grew tired of one of them waving his rattle in her face, grabbed it from him and threw it away - straight into a nearby shop window. Annie was arrested for vandalism and taken to the police station where she found herself on a bench next to Maggie Monks, a woman tramp who advised her that the best way to get away with something was to make up that you had a bad memory and couldn't remember what had happened. In the end, Len Fairclough talked the police into getting the charge dropped, provide she pay for the window.


 * The part of Maggie Monks was played by Maggie Jones, seven years before she made her debut as the redoubtable Blanche Hunt.


 * For more information see Episode 727 (4th December 1967).