maybe you can give us some stories on that episode NI living up there.
I was in my last year at college. I went with a couple of neutral mates and for reasons I can’t recall went in the rather partisan Gallowgate End, which in 1974 was still a standing only terrace.
Remember Chris Simpkin clattering SuperMac early on, then when Nolan Keeley scored I went down on my knees, waving both fists in the air. My two mates moved away, and then I realised I was surrounded by several thousand Geordies.
I was expecting a good kicking but they just looked down at me and shook their heads.
McDermott’s equaliser was a hell of a shot. Neil Warnock could have won it for us but with McFaul lying on his back and the goal wide open he narrowly missed the corner flag!
Never made it down to the replay, of which I wasn’t too disappointed.
The previous year I’d been at Roker Park when we beat Hartlepool 2-1 in a second replay after two 0-0 draws.
Replays eh? Tell today’s kids about it and they won’t believe you!
