I’ve a MK story I’ve mentioned on here before so please bear with me if you remember it.
Just left school in Summer 83 and Boro were skint. Club appealed to fans to volunteer to paint the seats and barriers at AP so at a loose end before starting my apprenticeship in September me and a few friends did so. Preseason, the players and managers (Malcolm Allison) were coming and going. We hit on the idea of a match, painters v first team and pitched it to MA who agreed,
A couple of weeks later we lined up, jumpers for goalposts, on a pitch on Hall Drive.
About an hour in we were getting tonked about 10-0 when Kelham O’Hanlon went to throw the ball to Gary Hamilton which I spotted and block tackled him as he received the ball which rebounded to my mate who half volleyed it in. Scenes. As I returned to half way line, I passed MK who punched me in the guts full force. Big Mal seen this and bo***xed him. I was playing right wing and he put MK at LFB and encouraged me to take him on every time I got the ball. We got beat 21-1 but that shows MK “winning attitude” to a tee