30-08-2018, 07:45 PM
(30-06-2018, 08:37 AM)Tricky Wrote: 1975 and i was 14 years old. Our school were asked to choose 16 school kids to be ballboys at the Forest v Bolton match on the saturday and a reserve match the previous wednesday. I was lucky enough to have been chosen to do the first team match v Bolton (my PE Teacher knew i was a massive reds fan). We lost the match 1-2.
During the first half, the ball was kicked into touch, and i instinctively jumped up and caught it (my position was GK) and threw it back to Ian Bowyer rather swiftly.
End of the game, we are in the boot room, which we used as a changing room, when a certain Brian Clough came in. You could hear a pin drop.
He thanked us all for helping out and told us we were a credit to our school and parents etc. He turned as if to leave, then stopped, turned back to face us and said " Who was the young man who was on the Trent End side of the East Stand?" I kind of gulped and gingerly raised my hand expecting a bollocking of some kind. "You made a good catch in the first half" he said in his usual cloughie way, "I'm thinking of signing you up to be our new goalkeeper.........cos the one we've got now is bloody rubbish!!!" With that, he turned and walked out, leaving my classmates in stitches and me feeling like i had won the world cup.
Beautiful memory for me and one I love telling my kids about (even with a dodgy Clough impersonation).
Great story that Tricky. Thanks for sharing :)
Panic on the streets of Croydon, Derby, Sheffield, Leicestershire.