I remember Widzew Łódź knocking Utd out of the UEFA cup on away goals in the early 80’s. Nikola Jovanovic played for Utd in those ties.
I was at the game as well, there was an intermediate championship match involving Inniscarra on beforehand, Limerick won but we got a few sliothars, I watched the last few minutes of the Arsenal game just inside the door of the Pier head of n Blackrock waiting/expecting to be fucked out any minute
Re lads looking older back then, this is from my 1986 Roy of the Rovers annual, 2nd from the right is obvious, who can name the rest?
They all look over 40
Tony Grealish is there .
His brother Brian hurled for Tour and played for football Fr Casey’s . He also was the goalie for Abbeyfeale United .
Around 1993 to 1999 or so .
Second left is Ally Robertson. Scottish centre back. The centre lad might be Tony Brown.
Gary Owen 1st on right.
Soem great intellects in that WBA team
“You’ve seen one wall, you’ve seen 'em all”
“I’ve bent balls round bigger walls than this”
Gunnersbury Park Saturday mornings for the football.
May 7th 1989, FA Cup Semi Final Replay. Brian Laws of Nottingham Forest diverts the ball into his own net in the 72nd minute to give Liverpool a 3-1 lead. Laws is down on his knees in disbelief as the Liverpool players celebrate in the background. John Aldridge breaks away from the celebrations momentarily to ruffle Brian Laws hair. Laws doesn’t react.
May 26th 1989, Division 1 Title Decider.
As the full time whistle blows, a disconsolate John Aldridge sits on the Anfield turf. Rather than celebrate, his international team-mate, David O’Leary, walks over to Aldridge and sympathetically tries to help him to his feet. A visibly annoyed Aldridge suddenly stands up and pushes O’Leary away. It is a beautiful moment.
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I remember those adds for football boots in Shoot and fucking knowing you hadn’t a hope of ever owning a pair.
Jesus. That brings back memories.
I remember being absolutely desperate for a pair of Sondico gloves.
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The Gazza Brooks boots 
Brian Statham is the guy in middle
Shoot was great.
Every August getting the cardboard league table thing. Updating it for 2 weeks and then ignoring it
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Shows what an utter cu*t ‘Aldo’ was/is.
I would have opinions on weather the reigning hurler of the year should have been allowed to play that summer. The most asterisked All Ireland ever for Irelands answer to Alabama.
Them Gola boots
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I was a pretentious “90 minutes” man. Match and Shoot weren’t high brow enough.
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A big part of what is wrong about that was that the match was the ‘Hillsborough replay’. Not the proper carry on for a Liverpool player for such an occasion.
Once a year I would branch out and get an issue of “World soccer”
They had a great result section , granted weeks out of date, which ensured I had my finger in the pulse of the Oceania World Cup qualifiers.