Channons Windmill

My late father went to his grave still hating Heath and Bailey - also Arsenal after an awful 0-1 in freezing conditions on New Years Day 1980 or 1981? He died on a Saturday night and his (almost) last words were ‘did Arsenal lose today?’. Only in the week we’d discussed the ‘bastard dwarf Heath’… I have a bit of an irrational dislike of Adam Armstrong mainly for his beard and tattoos.. certainly qualifies as irrational. Also had a real dislike of Terry Curran

I vaguely remember a pre-Cup Final team picture in the candy stripes…. Or is that just my memory playing tricks on me? I know we wore them for the Charity Shield

Can I add encounters with players I missed? Twenty years ago I lived in a village near Longleat and next to the pub - one morning one of my mates knocked on the door to say that Mick Channon and Alan Ball had been in the pub the previous evening - it never occurred to him to come and let me know. Not long before Bally died, will always be a big regret that I never got to meet those two that night..

I recently shared a lift with Poch and his son… I also once declined an invitation to go drinking and ‘pull a few birds’ with Mick Harford which I believe to have been a very sensible decision.

My goodness, that’s amazing! The WBA replay was only my second game - the first being the Blackpool game in the previous round - so to see the goals again was actually a little emotional. Was an STH from the following season so wonder just how many of these goals I saw live. He’ll always be my favourite Saint.

I’ve always wondered whether that was the largest crowd ever at The Dell…

I reckon there had to 30000+ in there that night… one of the few games I’ve been to when I was actually scared for my safety

I was under the West Stand with my Dad - was actually terrified by the crush. I wonder how many were actually there that night?

Though the team a couple of seasons later was arguably even better… having a decent keeper helped (hello from SW16…)

I saw it from the Family Centre, it was a hell of a shot - it’s on YouTube thankfully - would have look amazing from the benches looking at the angle again… I’m now very determined to find that picture

(Though I was trying to find the picture of Ivan Golac scoring against WBA - it was even centre spread in an edition of WSC in the past few years - but have failed so far)

Cleverley was always going to be sacked if Watford didn’t get promoted - didn’t do a bad job at Watford but can’t see he’ll ever be a manager at a higher level.

My source on this is 100% reliable - as I mentioned previously, I’m involved in the acquisition of a different EFL club at present so it’s pretty easy to find out what is for sale (almost everything),,,

Merely validating what had been written to date…