Redemption
Chief Eye Roller
I'll tek one for team.
Talk among yer sens, I'll be back later wi an intro text.
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For Christmas 1973, I was gifted the Super Striker Soccer FA Cup Edition. 20 little men with heads that could be pressed to make their leg swing and kick a ball around a felt pitch. There were also 2 men with sticks up their bum that were there as goalkeepers.
The teams in my set sported Red Tops with White Shorts and Red Socks - obviously Nottingham Forest - and the other was Sky Blue, White, Sky Blue. This team could double up as Coventry City or Manchester City.
It was my game and the rule was simple: Forest must win. It could have been known as the Duncan Mackensie rule.
Forest, at the time, were languishing in Division 2. Which is why I was Notts County fan!
But not too long after that Christmas, the red-men were drawn in the FA Cup 4th Round against the superstars of Main Road to be played at the yet to become World-Famous City Ground.
It was the Duncan MacKenzie show! Forest triumphed 4-1. MacKenzie scored 2, set up 2 and ran the sky blues ragged.
It was a Super Striker Soccer performance I could be proud of.
The rest is history. A boy's dream of the beautiful game was begun.
I wish it were!
Today, of course, Liam Gallagher's Manchester City are a bunch of perennial cheats. Spoling the dreams of young boys and girls everywhere with their money.
The current charges that Manchester City go back 14 years to 2009.
So when they bring their new superstars to world famous City Ground for the first time this century, we'll all know they were paid for by devious means.
A thrashing for them would be no justice but let's burn a candle for a Duncan MacKenzie-style 4-1 triumph.
Talk among yer sens, I'll be back later wi an intro text.
-- EDIT --
For Christmas 1973, I was gifted the Super Striker Soccer FA Cup Edition. 20 little men with heads that could be pressed to make their leg swing and kick a ball around a felt pitch. There were also 2 men with sticks up their bum that were there as goalkeepers.
The teams in my set sported Red Tops with White Shorts and Red Socks - obviously Nottingham Forest - and the other was Sky Blue, White, Sky Blue. This team could double up as Coventry City or Manchester City.
It was my game and the rule was simple: Forest must win. It could have been known as the Duncan Mackensie rule.
Forest, at the time, were languishing in Division 2. Which is why I was Notts County fan!
But not too long after that Christmas, the red-men were drawn in the FA Cup 4th Round against the superstars of Main Road to be played at the yet to become World-Famous City Ground.
It was the Duncan MacKenzie show! Forest triumphed 4-1. MacKenzie scored 2, set up 2 and ran the sky blues ragged.
It was a Super Striker Soccer performance I could be proud of.
The rest is history. A boy's dream of the beautiful game was begun.
I wish it were!
Today, of course, Liam Gallagher's Manchester City are a bunch of perennial cheats. Spoling the dreams of young boys and girls everywhere with their money.
The current charges that Manchester City go back 14 years to 2009.
So when they bring their new superstars to world famous City Ground for the first time this century, we'll all know they were paid for by devious means.
A thrashing for them would be no justice but let's burn a candle for a Duncan MacKenzie-style 4-1 triumph.
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