QPR for me nothing will beat that feeling I was floating on it for months. I will though take you back to 24th March 1971. We had lost 2-0 to Gornik Zabrze away in the quarter final of the cup winners cup and had loads of first team players missing for the return game. Joe Mercer appealed to the fans to turn up and get behind the young lads and they would do us proud. The Gornik team said the one thing they feared was the Manchester rain and that night it didn't let us down! It had been raining solidly all day and I was outside the players entrance as the Gornik players got off the coach. It was bucketing it down and they didn't look too happy as they stepped off into it. I said with a big grin, ''Manchester rain, good eh??'' They gave a rueful smile but you could tell they hated it.
The kids played out of their skin in an electric atmosphere played on a mudbath of a pitch and won 2-0 after extra time to take the game to a replay which we won 3-1. One moment I remember in the dying second their star striker Lubanski went around Healey and the crowd held it's breath as he slotted it towards the goal......but it got stuck in the mud and Healey pounced on it to save the day. A great night.
The kids played out of their skin in an electric atmosphere played on a mudbath of a pitch and won 2-0 after extra time to take the game to a replay which we won 3-1. One moment I remember in the dying second their star striker Lubanski went around Healey and the crowd held it's breath as he slotted it towards the goal......but it got stuck in the mud and Healey pounced on it to save the day. A great night.