Now The Longside Has Gone


By Dave Thomas
October 6 2010

It was my dad who first took me to Turf Moor in 1955. I was unimpressed even though it was a game against Manchester United.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There's still a hazy memory of a 0-0 game and something lingers in the back of my head that Man U played in blue for some reason or other and I was disappointed they weren't in red. My dad was quietly addicted to Turf Moor, and in later years when I did eventually become addicted myself, he'd go through some of the goals he'd seen scored at the Turf, one being Tommy Cummings' "best goal ever  as it is fondly known, in January 1952, when he went the length of the pitch against Newcastle and scored a stunner beating every Newcastle player on the way.

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