50 Yrs Since Bill Gates Testimonial Match of Champs - No-Brainer Launch Tonight

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The biography of Bill Gates by Mike Amos.
Launched this evening at 6.30pm at Ferryhill Working Men's Club on the 50th anniversary of the 'Match of Champions' 2nd Div Champions Boro v 1st Dibv Champs Leeds at Ayresome Park, Bill Gates testimonial.
The books will be available to buy and you can meet author Mike Amos and Bill's wife Dr Judith Gates, founder of Head Safe Football charity - Bill and Dr Judith dedicated themselves to the fight to educate and inform the world and especially the football world about CTE an incurable brain degenerative disease that can be triggered by heading a football and ultimately robbed Bill of his memory and then his life.
Also guests Gary Pallister, Tony McAndrew and Eddie Kyle.

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I was there 50 years ago - 4-4 and what a night it was. From memory there was something like 39,0000 crowd. Happy days


*EDit: It was nearly 32,000

1.Harvey, David
2.Reaney, Paul
3.Cooper, Terry
4.Bremner, Billy1 (4-4)
5.McQueen, Gordon
6.Hunter, Norman
7.Lorimer, Peter1 (?)
8.Gray, Frank
9.Jordan, Joe1 (1-2)
10.Yorath, Terry1 (2-2)
11.Madeley, Paul
Middlesbrough:
1.Platt, Jim
2.Craggs, John
3.Cochrane, Jimmy
4.Souness, Graeme
5.Boam, Stuart
6.Gates, Bill
7.Murdoch, Bobby
8.Mills, David1 (?)
9.Hickton, John
10.Foggon, Alan3 (?, ?, ?)
11.Armstrong, David
 
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Wiseman_Vaughn said:
I was there 50 years ago - 4-4 and what a night it was. From memory there was something like 39,0000 crowd. Happy days


*EDit: It was nearly 32,000

1.Harvey, David
2.Reaney, Paul
3.Cooper, Terry
4.Bremner, Billy1 (4-4)
5.McQueen, Gordon
6.Hunter, Norman
7.Lorimer, Peter1 (?)
8.Gray, Frank
9.Jordan, Joe1 (1-2)
10.Yorath, Terry1 (2-2)
11.Madeley, Paul
Middlesbrough:
1.Platt, Jim
2.Craggs, John
3.Cochrane, Jimmy
4.Souness, Graeme
5.Boam, Stuart
6.Gates, Bill
7.Murdoch, Bobby
8.Mills, David1 (?)
9.Hickton, John
10.Foggon, Alan3 (?, ?, ?)
11.Armstrong, David
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Nice warm night, and looked forward to Division 1 chock a block, made Billy Gates a good wedge to go into business.
 
I remember that match very well, Ayresome was packed out and it was the only time I ever went in the old North Stand.
 
Yep, a memorable night. Managed to get in the corner between the Clive Rd and Bob End. Queues were horrendous.
 
The event is at Ferryhill Working Men's Club at 6.30pm this evening launching the biography, No-Brainer.
Bill Gates may have been lucky with his timing to get such a testimonial but on the other hand it was the constant migraines that made him retire at 29 yrs of age. Also he had trained in accountancy since joining Boro and then researched the new trend in sport and leisure wear. He knew that there was a real opening for him if he could seize it. From a shop in Dundas Arcade he built up an empire of Monument Sports.
 
Bill and family moved in over the road from us in Marske in the 60's. Played footy with his lads Dave and Nick, and my eldest brother was his first "Saturday Boy" at the Dunsdale Arcade shop. Absolute top man and one of the nicest guys you could ever meet, and what he did along with his wife Dr Judith Gates to raise awareness in dementia in former footballers and other sports men and women is beyond priceless.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Lucky man, Bull gates.
Insane crowd for a testimonial.
There were even some away fans in the east stand.
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Lucky man, you say.
Yet almost half the Leeds players in that game died from neurological conditions and also the two managers,

We can help give them a legacy for change by buying the Bill Gates biography No-Brainer and building pressure towards change in football. We need to phase out heading in training and in junior football where the disease starts to take hold. We won't know the results for 20 or 30 years but we have to start now.

 
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Rofesleg said:
I thought the Clive Road and Bob End were both corners, either side of the East Stand?
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The Bob end was the whole area behind the goal ( with the boys end enclosure top left looking at it from the pitch). The seats in the central area were put in for the 1966 World Cup games.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Lucky man, you say.
Yet almost half the players in that game died from neurological conditions and also the two managers,

We can help give them a legacy for change by buying the Bill Gates biography No-Brainer and building pressure towards change in football. We need to phase out heading in training and in junior football where the disease starts to take hold. We won't know the results for 20 or 30 years but we have to start now.

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Just in terms of the crowd.
Players who had testimonials in later years had only tiny crowds, and had similar health issues.
 
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