Found this a few days ago when rummaging, my most treasured possession (..but don't tell the distaff side!)
Immediately transported back to that foul day huddled on the Scoreboard with the Old Man and my uncles Peter, Dick and Arthur, the five of us part of that lowest ever crowd, with the rain symbolically cascading misery down on us!
Was intensely jealous of my cousin Keith and Uncle Sammy who always sat in the Platt Lane, dry certainly if not so warm that day! And that proud boast on the front cover of the programmes, that Maine Road had 'Covered accommodation for 50000' was about as much use to us as having the tallest floodlights in England..!
My school match had been cancelled right at the last minute that morning due to a waterlogged pitch. Then followed an afternoon of getting soaked as we lost 2-1, with Mike Summerbee scoring for Swindon. Even Alan Oakes scoring a piledriver couldn't lift the gloom that surrounded everyone that day.
And walking home back up Lloyd Street to Hulme, the Heavens opened up yet again, finishing off one of the most miserable City/football days I can remember..
But still.. Eee! 'Appy days! This is what old programmes do to you!
