When asked to do a piece on my favourite ever game, I really didn’t know where to start! From my first memory of going to St James Park, a televised F.A Cup 3rd round game against Blackburn. I remember walking up the back of the Leazes End, walking through the access and seeing the pitch for the first time, then celebrating my first goal when Rob Lee put in an equaliser from outside the box. Fantastic! A brilliant memory, but not my favourite game.
My Favourite Match
CHRISTOPHER WOOD
Manchester united 0 Newcastle United 1, Sat 7th December 2013. Old trafford, Att: 75,233. Other contenders come into it of course (I’m including only games I have actually attended) Of course Barcelona at home and likewise the Manchester United 5-0 game come into contention, but I think I was really just a bit too young to fully understand them. I eventually decided that it had to be a game where I was old enough to remember, by that I basically mean, where I was old enough to have a drink with all my mates,
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that’s what going to the match is really about for me, enjoying it with them. That enevtiably led me to think of away games, great days out beating those lot down the road, especially the 4-1 game the season they had already been relegated by the time we played them. Then of course the two european games I had done in both Brugge and Benfica, absolutely class trips that will live long in the memory! Brugge was tremendous, we
found a tiny little bar a bit of the beaten track, drank there before and after the game and practically drank the place dry!That point away at Benfica when we took the lead and the whole away end thought, we’re going to win this!! I finally came to the conclusion that my favourite ever game was when we beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford, when Yohan Cabaye scored. Why this game, because I fucking
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