16 Mar 2017 12:48:10
Hess and Speedy. I might have been there that day, but I don't remember. Was it the day the tram was late when the horse cast a shoe?
16 Mar 2017 14:43:32
For God's sake Leo. You are really losing it! That was the day after!
16 Mar 2017 15:45:59
If you were there on that day its no wonder your memory is dodgy - Hehe
16 Mar 2017 16:22:10
That game 1967 was very late on for me. I was watching with 32,000 other fans when Leeds kicked off the season in 1954 when John Charles, Albert Nightingale, Jimmy Dunn, Grenville Hair and Eric Kerfoot were playing. Wasn't very old so I could sit on the white perimeter wall side of the pitch on the Lowfields Road side.
It terms of fitness I still managed the three peaks in a day late last year and scored in my last football match (only 6 a side) 7 years ago. Packed in playing and coaching the real thing ages ago but I'm not totally dead yet.
16 Mar 2017 17:50:51
Well said Hess. And I'm still dressing and feeding myself. Not to mention the sky diving
16 Mar 2017 18:52:49
You know what they say Speedy - you are only as old as the woman you feel.
16 Mar 2017 19:30:54
Ox, or in Speedy's case - only as old as the berm you feel
16 Mar 2017 19:43:13
yeah and compared to some I'm a proper young pup at 33 (34 next week so not happy about that) . Shows how you judge people I thought Speedy was about my step dads age due to comments (he is 57) and assumed Hess was give or take my age due to comments and views. Fair play Hess doing better than me mate i struggle to play in goal, although when michaeldinio does grace the pitch what i lack in pace i make up for in skill and finsihing and did score a couple of weeks back
16 Mar 2017 20:48:04
Well I was only 3 months old at that Sunderland game 😎
{Ed001's Note - did your autocorrect change decades to months?}
16 Mar 2017 21:31:07
Cheeky sod Ed
{Ed001's Note - just asking.}
16 Mar 2017 23:04:00
Well done Hess you knock spots off me. My earliest recollection is with fullbacks (bodysnatchers) Bell and Hair. In the v. early 60s. So, like you, I was a child of the Golden Age of Leeds football.
16 Mar 2017 23:06:18
that is right speedy was three months but yorkshire men are like dogs so being three months made him 23 in human years
16 Mar 2017 23:11:52
Agree bw. You presume posters age by their views. Never realised hess was so mature. Impressed you can use a computer mate. And got to be honest thought speedie was about 40. Thought you were about 50!
17 Mar 2017 10:51:11
50 with a three year old and a new born? i'd be bang in trouble i can just about cope now as i'm feeling too old. after watching the racing today my eldest Polly insisted on riding daddy after crawling on the floor for about 15 minutes with a jocky who weighs about 2 stone. i was in bits my knees are killing me now. tomorrow i think we will watch the boxing, i'm pretty confident i could take her at that and not knacker my knees.
17 Mar 2017 10:53:56
Yes I can use a computer. I have even got one of the remote controls for the television - thinking of upgrading it to one that doesn't even have a long lead. The really exciting thing next week is I was given one of those weekend experience breaks for Christmas. I'm going to learn about something called 'texting'. Don't know what it is but it sounds interesting. I'll let you know.
17 Mar 2017 11:25:21
just for t' record, I'll be 60 on Mothers day :) first Leeds game, a midweek (League I think) cup game, away at Bramall Lane when it was 3-sided with Yorkshire cricket pitch on one side. IIRC we won 3-1
17 Mar 2017 13:05:31
I think i learnt about some of this stuff in history when i was at school
17 Mar 2017 13:49:22
Great history lessons Alf if you were learning about the mighty whites
17 Mar 2017 15:57:05
Also just for the record my first game as spectator was Jack Charlton first game. He played because of a number of injuries in the team at the time. Although I couldn't appreciate it myself at the time I was told that the defence was rubbish. It was the time when John Charles had to be moved back to centre half although he was scoring bucketfuls of goals at the other end.
17 Mar 2017 15:20:50
I have heard about school's like that. Hope it didn't have any long term effects.
17 Mar 2017 16:05:36
Im 55 bw and got 11 and 13 yr old! Man up mate. So funny hess. going to add you to my side of the church at my funeral. Well done alf but if you thinking then you didn't learning.
17 Mar 2017 20:26:43
yeah but don't you run Aus so still fit. all i do is drink and talk rubbish. i use to play but after not getting a call up to roy hodgsons last sqaud dispite hearts failings in goal i have let myself slip. also not sure what kids you have but i have two daughters which i think is as bad as having at least 175 sons