Last night I watched the Lawman a sky documentary about Denis Law. It reminded me of what a great superstar he was in the game.
They showed a photograph of Denis Law as best man (when both at Huddersfield) at Gordon Low’s wedding, they were both born in Aberdeen and Gordon joined City in 1961 and was with us for 7 years making over 200 appearances for us.
And that in turn reminded me about an incident around 1965 to 1967, a school friend (who later sadly passed as a teenager with a heart defect) and his girlfriend used to baby sit for Gordon Low, who lived in a cul de sac behind the Kings Head pub, Bedminster Down in Oldmead Walk, the club owned several houses there and Gordon, Chuck Drury, Mike Gibson and one or two other players lived there.
This friend and several others of us were playing football on ‘the front’ (on the A38) at Bedminster Down during the summer holidays and a car stopped and out jumped Gordon Low who approached my friend to ask him to baby sit that night and suddenly walking behind was none other than Denis Law, we were all gobbed smacked and just in awe, he shouted out “give me the ball” and proceeded to do keepy uppys and other tricks, a couple of minutes later they were off on their way and we could not believe what had just happened.
RIP Chris, gone far far too young.
They showed a photograph of Denis Law as best man (when both at Huddersfield) at Gordon Low’s wedding, they were both born in Aberdeen and Gordon joined City in 1961 and was with us for 7 years making over 200 appearances for us.
And that in turn reminded me about an incident around 1965 to 1967, a school friend (who later sadly passed as a teenager with a heart defect) and his girlfriend used to baby sit for Gordon Low, who lived in a cul de sac behind the Kings Head pub, Bedminster Down in Oldmead Walk, the club owned several houses there and Gordon, Chuck Drury, Mike Gibson and one or two other players lived there.
This friend and several others of us were playing football on ‘the front’ (on the A38) at Bedminster Down during the summer holidays and a car stopped and out jumped Gordon Low who approached my friend to ask him to baby sit that night and suddenly walking behind was none other than Denis Law, we were all gobbed smacked and just in awe, he shouted out “give me the ball” and proceeded to do keepy uppys and other tricks, a couple of minutes later they were off on their way and we could not believe what had just happened.
RIP Chris, gone far far too young.
