October 19, 2020 - it popped up in my facebook feed, as I suppose it must do every year on this date.
The bench seat match ticket at £2.50 wasn’t mine. Could never have afforded that. I picked it up from behind the old stand on my way out of the stadium, a discard from someone more affluent.
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What a night it was!
As a boy in trouble-torn Belfast, I was living the dream. The previous week I’d been to Windsor Park to watch Northern Ireland play the Dutch in a World Cup qualifier, Cruyff, Neeskens, Rep, Krol, the van der Kerkhofs and all.