Remember that...another one where Mick Lyons threw his header in and scored amid the flying boots. Seeing Jim Pearson and Connolly etc gummy having to play without their teeth plates in...commonplace then. Christ..imagine the vanity merchants now with their Louis Vuitton beauty bags gettin off the coach...and gaps all over their gobs. They just wouldnt play !
At the old Baseball Ground, Derby. My late big brother took me...there were traffic problems and loads of people were still pouring into the ground at kickoff. Because we were all stuck under a low roof passage in the ground, they put all the kids on the pitch round the corner flag to get out of the congestion. You can see it at the corner just before their 2nd goal....Im in the middle of that melee. On the way home he said to me in the car "no need to mention you being on the pitch to Mum, hey?". But of course when we were on Match of the Day later, I forgot and shouted "there I am there"....cue 3rd degree off her and my bro saying I was making it up ! A few years ago having a drink with Howard Kendall and a mate who was in the media, I reminded Howard about the lovely goal he scored there...he couldn't recall it, but typically was flattered that Id remembered. God bless him.....and my late brother.
1987 again and the day the title swung in our favour at Highbury,if my memory still serves me the other lot got turned over at the pit the same day by the Wombleslol