32 Years Ago!!

[ian1964 10,409]

I'm so old!! ?

[CammyF 6,779]

7 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

I'm so old!! ?

I flew to Orlando the day after this game for what was my 1st foreign holiday - save to say flew off on a high! 

 

Should have and could have been more than 5 that day. 

[Gonzo79 13,585]

I listened to the match on the radio.  Ah, the days before television ruled football.

 

What a goal!

[ian1964 10,409]

4 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

I listened to the match on the radio.  Ah, the days before television ruled football.

 

What a goal!

I always thought every match sounded terrific, the commentators were always very excitable back in the day! until you seen the highlights ?

[compo 6,119]

It was a cracker of a goal .

[26th of foot 5,828]

I was operational in southern Oman, a piece of topography called the Jebel. There had been a conflict of low intensity going on for 15 years or so. I was leading a ten day patrol along the Yemen border, and we retired to a harbour area in a wadi. I checked my watch and realised the game at Ibrox was over. Once the bivvy was established I became unprofessional. I rigged a whip aerial, and tuned to the BBC World Service. It was a deliberate abdication of sensory perception. I put on ear phones and listened to Paddy Feeney's thirty minute sports round-up.

 

Paddy had a sonorous voice, laced with infectious enthusiasm. He introduced the game of the day, "a six goal thriller from Ibrox". What followed was a dozen snatches from that day's live commentary on the World Service. I was told the game started in a rain squall, "Celtic took advantage amid the downpour, a rebound fell to McAvennie and he opened the scoring". I thought fcuk me, we've been trounced 0-6. Paddy was loquacious, he threw out a couple of options to McCoist in the box, then the commentary clip told of his equaliser. I thought, maybe we've lost 1-5?

 

The clips kept coming and when our third went in, I was encouraged the worst could be a 3-3 draw. It's hard to articulate, explain the elation surge I experienced, lying doggo in a high plateau desert. As the fifth hit the net, I screamed, silently!  I was there, bouncing in the East Enclosure. Paddy ended with repeating the clip for Wilkins goal, "it will be talked about down the decades". I was exhausted but could not find sleep. 

 

I returned home for Christmas and attended the Ne'rday game, a 4-1 victory over the Yahoos. I enjoyed that game thoroughly, but I enjoyed the earlier rout even more, particularly because I was not, could not be in attendance. In those days, Paddy Feeney was worth the license fee on his own.