We had come over on the boat from Belfast to Heysham and then down on the train to Manchester. It was such a rought crossing and I thought the boat was perpendicular at one time. I remember being in Picadilly and I thought I was still at sea.It wasnt the old Irishman taking too much drink because I did not drink then. I recall seeing the Arsenal players coming out of their hotel near Picadilly with Alan Ball among them.Would they stay over now. i do not think so as I recall another occasion seeing the Chelsea team at Manchester airport en route to London after losing 5-1 to Liverpool.
I trangress back to the Arsenal game-they were the previous seasons double winners and the team to beat. I recall pat rice handling inside the box and we got a penaly which francis lee scored with. He got the other one two. I think he scored a lot of penalties that season and got the chinese nickname Lee 2 1 pen
of course this put us 5 points clear top of the league with 4 matches to play but we lost 2 games after this and let cloughs derby county in.i think we beat them 2-0 near the end of the season but they pipped us for the title