Reyt team. Spent many a happy hour watching them lads. Huge crowds in them days annall. Special times
Best Reds side I’ve seen in nearly 60 years of watching. Shade it over Danny’s Just Like Watching Brazil team. Top quality players, teamwork, skill with a hard edge, defensively strong but a massive attacking threat (including nearly 40 goals a season from midfield). Wingers who could beat players and cross a ball without it hitting the first defender. Strikers who linked up with each other and made life difficult for defenders - and who could score goals. Defenders who could defend and not dick about. Jumpers for goalposts, eh? Marvellous.
The only one I couldnt put a name to was front row RH end, Gordon Boyd. So I looked him up, 2 appearances in 2 yrs, n o wonder I didnt recall.
That was year Martin New came back from close season about 3 stone overweight,he still looks to have a belly on him there,was soon replaced I think
Yeah everything about that picture, with all the good memories associated with it, from season '81, is brilliant!.
My first season as. ST Holder and the first replica shirt I ever owned. The atmosphere at games that season was incredible.