A nostalgic reflection on the impact of football in Northern Ireland during the 1980s.
I was having a few refreshments with mates over the weekend and discussing how Christmas has changed, which turned into a factual correction about how we are getting old and sounding like our parents did all those years ago. Tales of ‘when I was young’ and ‘back in the day’ and so on…we were happy with a mandarin orange and an apple which looked and felt like a snooker ball, hard as a rock.
(‘I had absolutely no worries on my mind, just Newcastle United and girls, specifically Rosie’) to take us all back to reminisce about our youth, and got me in the mood to elaborate, (check me out), on my youth. My dear parents, who are still with me, were working class, and I count myself extremely lucky to have such wonderful parents still with me in their winter years.Now, in Northern Ireland in the eighties, as ever, football (and sport in general) was our refuge, a safe haven to escape the bedlam around us. Music then was 99 red balloons, Kim Wilde, and I have to hold my hands up, I went to a roller disco on more than a few occasions, and it was obviously because I had a notion about several young ladies.No wonder I was confused with the influences and music around me, but for me, I could never shake off my devotion to NUFC. With Spain 82, I remember as a ten-year-old, we beat the hosts in Valencia with a Gerry Armstrong goal and held out with ten men in a nail-biting finish. I remember bottles of Guinness and doors unlocked along our street, and the raucous noise when the final whistle went, football was our saviour and our escap
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