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became our manager in May 1965, Nicky didn’t get much of a look-in and was finally transferred to Leicester City in October 1966, where he formed a partnership for a while with Derek Dougan. It had the look of a good pairing with the tall Doog nodding them down for the diminutive Nicky to smash them in but Dougan was soon off to Wolves.
When I was in the sixth form at Bede School, one of my teachers, Mr Street, let slip one day that his next-door neighbour in Fulwell was non-other than Nicky, who was playing for Hartlepool at the time - he was there till the end of the 1971/2 season - and we always snapped up whatever tit-bits he could cast our way.
Nicky died in Sunderland in 2015 but he’ll always be a hero to me and to thousands of others.
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