A wee story from Bertie’s Birmingham days…
(from user “Mekon”. Link below). Well, best moments may have differing connotations. I don’t know about an absolute footballing best, but for the most memorable – and I remember it like yesterday, I’ll go for Bertie Auld laying out the Fulham pair Johnny Haynes (the England ball playing Brylcream boy and the London press favourite) and a centre forward called Cook.
After seeing Haynes get done, Cook came over with aggressive intent. Bertie Auld just leant over and planted a Glasgow Kiss. Both Fulham players dropped like drunken sandbags! Never seen anything like it before or since… Wasn’t a ‘’best moment’’ in footballing terms – but those in attendance will certainly remember it – Auld was sent off and Haynes stretchered off. It brought the baying house down, and we all loved it!!!
It was ‘proper’ football in them days, with the ball flying about in the 6 yard box, lots of ooh’s and aah’s and the crowd swaying forward several yards like a human tide before amazingly returning to its original position, like those bottles you can’t knock over. Technically it was crap, but more exciting! Now you can see games being played out to some mathematical formula – and the ball hardly enters the box at all, what a bore! Most of you out there will never know what you missed!!!
PS. And the clarification is: Are my recollections of that day correct – or is my memory not as good as I thought. What put Haynes down? A left, a right, or the nut, and WAS Cook the other player involved? It seems there are differing recollections of what happened…
Anyone out there know for sure? I need such for my grandsons Blue’s folklore………
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