I was saddened to hear of the death of Jimmy McLoughlin, former Sw**sea Town and Northern Ireland international midfield player. His was a name I’d known for most of my life.
I was at Ninian with my Dad on February 8th 1966 as a 14 year old boy watching City v Jacks in a Welsh Cup 5th round replay. The sides had drawn 2-2 at the Vetch cabbage patch on the previous Wednesday.
Anyway, City were giving them a real hammering, leading 3-0 well into the second half when McLaughlin and Don Murray, our colossal centre half, who’d been having a right old go at each other all evening, got into another scrape. All of a sudden McLoughlin is on the ground, out for the count, as his nose collided with The Don’s nut. Needless to say Leo Callaghan sent Don from the field leaving us with 10 men. I shudder when I remember what happened next, slowly the Western chaps got back into the game, one goal after another until they equalised just before full time! Into extra time we went and the inevitable happened, we lost 3-5! I haven’t given that match much thought in recent times but yesterday’s news of McLoughlin’s passing brought thr memories flooding back.
RIP Jimmy.
I was at Ninian with my Dad on February 8th 1966 as a 14 year old boy watching City v Jacks in a Welsh Cup 5th round replay. The sides had drawn 2-2 at the Vetch cabbage patch on the previous Wednesday.
Anyway, City were giving them a real hammering, leading 3-0 well into the second half when McLaughlin and Don Murray, our colossal centre half, who’d been having a right old go at each other all evening, got into another scrape. All of a sudden McLoughlin is on the ground, out for the count, as his nose collided with The Don’s nut. Needless to say Leo Callaghan sent Don from the field leaving us with 10 men. I shudder when I remember what happened next, slowly the Western chaps got back into the game, one goal after another until they equalised just before full time! Into extra time we went and the inevitable happened, we lost 3-5! I haven’t given that match much thought in recent times but yesterday’s news of McLoughlin’s passing brought thr memories flooding back.
RIP Jimmy.
