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the words ‘Adolf Hitler Tour of Europe’ and later heard that he’d been arrested for breach of the peace. We drew that game 1-1 with Pop scoring for us. Our line-up for the West Ham game was Chris Turner, Steve Whitworth, Joe Hinnigan, Gordon Chisolm, Rob Hindmarch, Shaun Elliott, Kevin Arnott, Mick Buckley, John Hawley, Bryan Robson and Stan Cummins.
We arrived in good time for the kick-off and there was a huge scrum of people outside of the ground. Time went on and we kept prowling around looking for any kind of opening as the roars of the crowd inside swirled about us. There was a great roar when Arnott put us into the lead in the first half but we needed another to make sure. Having come all that way I wasn’t going to go home so I stuck around and midway through the second-half my persistence paid off as the gates were opened to let the early-leavers out and of course we were in there like a flash. Strangely enough after some initial squeezing through the crowd, it wasn’t that difficult to get a decent vantage point most of the time and at least I was there when Cummins put us 2-0 up and gave us the victory that assured promotion as runners-up, a point behind Leicester. The crowd was forty-seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine - our biggest of the season - but that couldn’t have included me and the thousands of others who got in for free.
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