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flight player right up till September 2022.) It took us till our ninth match in mid-September to get a win, 1-0 against Blackburn. We did recover and managed to finish out of the danger zone.
One Saturday in 1964 I was standing near the front left hand side of the Fulwell End 1964 when our winger Brian Usher was playing and he was constantly heckled by a couple of blokes near us who kept calling him Mary and shouting obscure instructions such as, “Corner-post, Mary!” whenever he came near. With the advent of George Best in the previous year every club suddenly had its heartthrob player and Brian was ours. He was interviewed on the local T.V. news about it and seemed a bit awkward about having this mantle thrust upon him. Maybe it was the same day actually but I recall a bloke explaining to two new arrivals that he was keeping a place for his mate who’d just gone to get a pie. It struck me somehow that the word ‘pie’ made the space sacrosanct. In 1964 or 1965 I was in the Clock Stand one evening with some mates from school and we were there for a youth team match. I don’t think I ever went to another youth team game so it must’ve been an important one and at the end we all raced onto the pitch. A groundsman tried to stop us and I can still picture him standing there with outstretched arms as we skidded around on the surprisingly slippery surface.
Another memory of the Clock Stand from the same period was of seeing a lad from school whom I hardly knew standing opposite me downstairs at half-time. Suddenly a boy
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