I was there that day. Game was 2-2 and he took the pen really late on. He absolutely thumped it and it smacked off the bar. I'd say in the 88-91 period he was as much a favorite player of mine as lineker was. His headed winner v Liverpool in 1990, the hat trick at Millwall, the double at Luton when we had 9 men. The Big Match v Sheffield Wednesday in the snow and his two goals. So many good things to recall. So long ago....
I have SUCH a good memory of that game... I
think it was the first time i'd actually seen us win away 'live'... after
many years of trying! (we were proper shit away from home in those days... and, quite rightfully, epitomised the 'Southern Softies' tag back then!)
Which is why it made winning "
Ooop in't'Sheffield on't'freezin' cold Soondey... in't'Snerrrr" all the sweeter!
The train back to St Pancras was pure joy... and getting back to the 'warmth' of London and watching it on the video that night was what perfect days are made of! (...no MOTD2 in them thar days, eh fellas...? if you wanted to watch the highlights, you had to set the video timer before you went, and record the game your-bloody-self!)
Thank you 'Stewie' for that day.
...and to think, all the time he was playing for us, it was amid the awful truth of knowing what he knew about his younger years. It makes
everything he achieved in the game all the more impressive!
...but as for the away game at
Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillwaaaaall
...it was one of those games that you were so jubilant INSIDE the relative safety of the away end (5-0 wasn't it?) ...but then
definitely kept yourself to yourself on the way back to the Trains... ahh, Millwall in the (old) First Division... weirdly happy days!