I’d seen the reserves loads of times but on the way to my first ‘proper game’ My Dad suggested that he fancied Barney Daniels to get a couple. We were playing Leicester City in November 1974 and I was there because my Dad’s mate couldn’t make it. I sat high up in Block H of the Main Stand. When the players ran out the first thing that struck me was that our Blue shirts looked a different shade to the one I had at home. They were a beautiful colour.

Within a minute, Dennis Tueart had scored but Leicester equalised. The next two goals were scored by City and the scorer? Barney Daniels. Keeping in mind that they were the only goals he ever scored for us, just how did the ‘awld feller’ know? Another remarkable thing my Dad could do, was go and insist that the players came back out for the second half when I was getting bored with waiting. “I’ll just nip down to the dressing room and tell them to come back out”, he’d tell me. A minute or so later the players would jog onto the pitch, and then soon after Dad would come back to the seats. I genuinely thought he was a man of huge influence at City. I was thirty four before I realised he didn’t have special access to the changing rooms!

Anyways up, my hero Colin Bell added a fourth and the match was shown on MoTD, which was extra special in a time when only a couple of games were shown each week.
A goal inside a minute, and a 4-1 win, I thought it would always be like that. What happened?