This day 1978 As a young 17 year old I stood in the holagte & watched a centre forward make his debut

Erimus74

Erimus74

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Tuesday evening footy at Ayresome Park on the 4th April, seen 2 players make their debuts
CF David Shearer, registered No517 made a debut of dreams when bagging a brace v Chelsea, as the mighty Boro ran out 2-0 winners, a cracking debut.
DS went on to make 115 appeearences for the Boro, scoring 30 goals

Peter Johnson, registered No516, made his 1st of 45 appearences for the Boro, scoring one goal

While Alan Walsh, registered No515, was named as No12, the 2nd of 3 games he was named as sub, coming on for Stan Cummins in the 2nd half

Also the 1st game keeper Dave Brown, registered No514, had played in that the Boro won & he kept a clean sheet

John Neals team

Dave Brown
Ian Bailey
Peter Johnson
John Mahoney
Stuey Boam
Alan Ramage
David Mills
Stan Cummins
Dave Shearer
Tony McAndrew
Dave Armstrong
Sub
Alan WalshScreenshot_20210404_191657.jpg
 
I was a 19 year old staying in halls of residence for Queen Mary's College, London. Having move down to live there in South Woodford about 6 months earlier.

I was probably playing snooker when the match was on. That is what I was doing a lot of evenings then.

I was probably complaining about the noise coming from the music room nearby. Where they future lead singer of Iron Maiden was rehearsing.

I had not met my first wife to be by then. That happened in October 1978.
 
spanishman said:
I was a 19 year old staying in halls of residence for Queen Mary's College, London. Having move down to live there in South Woodford about 6 months earlier.

I was probably playing snooker when the match was on. That is what I was doing a lot of evenings then.

I was probably complaining about the noise coming from the music room nearby. Where they future lead singer of Iron Maiden was rehearsing.

I had not met my first wife to be by then. That happened in October 1978.
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I forgot to mention. This was only just a few weeks after we lost the Orient replay. Not too far away. I remember I was playing snooker that night. I was not a happy bunny when I was told the result.
 
John Neal gave Dave Brown, who was making his 4th appearence in goal, a run of 10 games to the end of the season to see if he, or Pat Cuff, wete good enough to challenge Jim Platt for the No1 Jersey, John Neal had given Pat Cuff a 10 game run in goal earlier in the season

Unfortunately neither fitted in John Neals plans as he opted to buy Jim Stewart from Kilmarnock in the summer to become our No1 keeper 😢
 
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