Took a rag with me and we had tickets in the north stand, just to the left of the goal, toward windy corner , on the way in without a word of a lie the rag said, “ I smell 5” , I never said owt, but to see the colour drain from his face when the lads sat behind us , at the side of us and in front of us, Nazi style interrogated everyone about who they were there to see, was something that will stay with me for life, I had my pin badge on, they just said to me ….you’re with us blue.
When it kicked off the lads sat around me piled over, 10 mins later they came back covered in blood, the few rags picked out before the match near me, had completely scarpered, leaving my mate shitting himself , I just sang right into his face , we’re the pride of Manchester,……….
youre the shit of Manchester, which was hard cos he was a right shortarse.
When they got onto the pitch to go to Platt Lane, I said to him, nows your chance, and the stupid prick stayed, then 10 mins after they had all gone, we were 2-0 up by then , he went to one of the stewards, all on his lonesome, to try to get out, the steward told him to fuck off, he got dogs coming back to his seat, i think the only reason he didn’t get the shit kicked out of him, was Bishops glorious 3rd happened………..what a move that was,…….. Stevie Redmond had a great game.
I will say this though, that volley from Hughes was brilliant, from where I was sat, it looked like he was lying on the crossbar when he hit it, he seemed that high off the ground, but not as brilliant as Hinchcliffes header, the ball out from Bishop to White, first time cross and bang, looked great from the North Stand, and the Kippax steaming, arms and legs everywhere, what a noise.
The angle on the YouTube clip where Lakey pulls it back for Morley to score the second, and you can see windy corner, I see myself jump on my mate as soon as Morley connects, makes me laugh every time I see it, cos I know I was literally dancing on him, what a way to break in my brand new Sambas, ……….treading all over a rag.
When you look at the 2 teams, we shouldn’t have had a chance, but we played some great stuff that day……oh Lakey ….if only
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