> > This blend of history, hope, yearning and passion is what football is > all about George Caulkin in The Times February 28 2014 07:02AM > > Profuse apologies that this is Sunderland but change a few details and it > > is all of us. > This is it. This. That flutter in the belly, that sprinkle of nerves, that > wondrous, aching possibility of this time, this time, for God's sake PLEASE > let it be this >time. That cacophonous train ride, that lad sitting opposite > decanting booze into Ribena bottles, that motorway convoy, scarves trailing > from windows, that >persistent, pissed memory from last night: your mate in a > copper's helmet, sopping and shivering in the Trafalgar Square fountains. > This is it.
SNIP me I'd have preferred them to win, a proper football club rather than sheik yermoneys expensively assembled plaything. They deserved to beat us in '73 no cheating Ref, just a better more committed display on the day. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
