One game I will never forget, a real major event, was when Leeds beat St Helens in the Championship Final in 1972 at Swinton.
My schoolteacher who was there was a big mate of Alan Hardisty’s and he got us into the changing room straight afterwards.
It was magical, the trophy was on a table near the door and all the players were singing and celebrating and ruffling my hair as I stood there in disbelief- tremendous.
Then I noticed, sitting in the corner of the dressing room watching everything, Mick Shoebottom, one of my idols, whose career had been so tragically ended a year before when he had been needlessly injured playing Salford.
It made the memory even more poignant.
Andy Cave
Originally published in 'Headingley Rugby Voices' Recollections of supporters, compiled by Phil Caplan.
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Memory added on November 26, 2012
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