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we managed to keep the pints flowing. Everyone was singing, drinking, chatting and laughing, and one bloke shat himself, which just added to the general bonhomie. The Sunderland Echo had arranged for a special pink edition to be flown down and distributed at Kings Cross Station among other places so we soon had our hands on a few copies. When you win an important game, you can read or listen about it endlessly and it was impossible to get enough of that game even though we all knew what had happened.
Around 9.30 the three of us walked back along Euston Road as a stream of Sunderland fans headed in the opposite direction on their way home. Back at the hall we watched the game again on ‘Match of the Day’ with much drunken shouting from Keith. Later on a number of people told us that they’d spotted Keith on T.V. as the camera slowly panned round the crowd during the singing of Abide With Me – he was wearing my black hat! Next day, after an orgy of Sunday paper reading, we watched the match again on I.T.V. Brian Moore asked Stokoe what he’d thought of Malcolm Allison’s view that Leeds would win and he calmly replied that he’d stopped listening to what Allison had to say after we’d given Man City a good hiding. The normally voluble Malc was for once silent.
I heard later that our Graham had also been down for the match. On the Saturday lunchtime he’d been in a pub not far from me in Tottenham Court Road and had asked someone where my college, University College, was. They’d
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