He was my Uncle for a short while! Married to my Aunt. (Dad's sister) I was in total awe of him as a youngster...unsurprisingly!
This was a crafty way of trying to flush out the ages of the good people on here …. My girlfriend said I was probably placing too much love at the feet of 17 year olds. I am reassured and will put her right.
A few of the ones on here would have seen the final in 69. I was at the first leg, but only cos my dad dragged my mum along when she was 3 months pregnant with me!
me and Reedioheed are both 60 with the same birthday, how spooky is that.... I know for a fact that Dorty is 55, having met him 55 years ago..... Trev is 75 at least.
Scored the best goal I’ve ever seen v Leicester! Unfortunately it wasn’t televised. Anyone who saw it will say the same.
Yeah the only top flight trophy in my lifetime, I was 2. I was 17 when NUFC adopted me. No reason has appeared to persevere (other than Kevin’s brief-but-euphoric promise) since then. But…. The curse.
Alan Gowling scored against Tottenham in the league cup semi final in 1976. Probably the best atmosphere at St. James I’ve been in.
Being in the south there was no reason until the Beardsley-Keegan-Waddle front line. Beautiful and pure and delightful football that was a spell on my eyes… the stripes became synonymous with that football, I became enamoured with a club that would sign such players. And then the seasons pass and you just can’t abandon it. And the more time that passes without similar beauty the more those memories become loved, and the stripes remain loved, and it feels like treachery to leave - it’s like being in a marriage with much loved kids that will never grow up; I’m a man, I can’t leave the kids no matter how much of a bitch my wife seems to act as. Best I can do to explain it. I think I’m now in love with the misery and know that people are confused but simultaneously envious of my commitment!
