MORRIS Motors footballers will finally get their hands on the Oxfordshire Senior Cup on Saturday – more than 30 years after winning the final.

And it appears that all the players, who started their 1-0 victory over Bicester Town in the 1985 final at Witney Town, will be at Oxford Golf Club to belatedly receive their due reward.

That season, the original Oxfordshire Senior Cup was stolen from the White House ground clubhouse of previous winners Oxford City.

So Morris Motors players and their manager Alan Holliday had to settle for receiving the Oxfordshire Professional Cup instead.

The original Senior Cup was never recovered, so it is the replacement that skipper Paul Baker will be receiving from Oxford United’s Milk Cup-winning hero Jeremy Charles.

When the idea for a 30-year reunion was conceived, it was thought that they would be one short.

“We had lost contact with striker Carl Herbert, who had moved away from the area,”

explained Baker.

“But we have since located him in Birmingham and have high hopes that he will be there.”