Recent content by Mark-The-Bear

In my early 20s I played alongside Tommy and Barry in the late 80s for a couple of seasons in the Stockton and district league. They must have been in their 40s at the time but you could tell in their younger days how good they would have been. Both played in defence and their reading of the...

Clocks went forward on that day which my mate hadn't realised and he missed the coach. No mobile phones back then to arrange lifts so he hitch hiked all the way from thornaby and made it with couple of minutes to spare.

Blackwell's in Norton sell it. Just got some this morning

Just googled him to see how many times he played for us and found that he died a few years ago,only in his fifties.

Birmingham away 1975 quarter final. My first ever away match as a 9 year old. I remember my Dad and his mates commenting after the game how that was our big chance to win the cup and I remember how gutted they all were walking back to the car. Nearly 50 years later and I now know all too well...

I wish the Leicester LC final had been decided by penalties at wembley instead of a replay. For me, a huge anticlimax at hilsbrough, win or lose.

My mate turned to me and said we are 2 minutes away from going up them steps and lifting that cup and getting into Europe. Then in the 118th minute Heskey put an end to that. The rest was a blur. Nothing before or since has come close to that gut wrenching feeling.