It is a bit off piste. And I agree with your sentiments. Though I can recall us playing at the Emirates and we were charged £27 as a low category game and the next home game they charged £62.50 for Man City, which led to protests. Don't know if it is still the case but Arsenal used to charge more for a season ticket than if you paid for every game on the gate on the basis you were guaranteed a ticket and got priority for Cup games. Away trips to far flung places on the spur of the moment were far more enjoyable to the homogenised, structured palaver you have to go through nowadays especially for games at "big clubs". Though if we ever establish ourselves in the PL there are times you would have to bite the bullet if you wanted to see them away.
I did. He was a bit older then me and worked in the news room, I think. I did play in the same Hull Daily Mail football team as him around 1970 and remember him being into cricket ?
It was Ken Knighton and Billy Baxters debut for City. Knighton bought from Blackburn for £60k and Baxter from Ipswich for about £10k, he was sold because he had thumped the Ipswich manager, Bobby Robson. Both were signed at 5.00 pm on the Monday before the Sheff Utd game. I remember Brian Taylor taking the telephone call that confirmed it and him furiously typing out the news for the late editions. I can see Knighton now in the middle of the pitch at the final whistle v Sheff Utd, fist clenched and one arm aloft in salute of the fans.
I guess that is why I am not that bothered about the PL. Although our owner seems to be which I understand from his point of view. I prefer a good old fashioned championship fixture with blood and guts, some nice football and the odd controversy thrown in. PL is way too sanitised.
Its sometimes hard to pick the MOTM out but in this instance it was easy. Flemming by a country mile.
I was 14 at the time in the cricket pavilion and didn't need glasses to see the fighting on the pitch. Unlike now when I need glasses to find my glasses!
