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Chapter 5
The Man United Match
When did some people actually attend a match at Roker Park when they didn’t even want to be in the ground? Anyone aged sixty-five or older will probably reply, “Oh, the Man United match” referring to our epic F.A. Cup 6th Round replay on the evening of Wednesday 4th March 1964. Four days before that we’d drawn 3-3 at Old Trafford, with Johnny Crossan getting two for us, but United pulled back two late goals, one of which was scored by a seventeen year-old newcomer called George Best. In those days the Stop Press section of the Saturday Sunderland Echo used to carry details
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