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Vital Reserves Team
Went to watch us play Kirkby Town think it was in the early seventies not sure what competition.Watching Derek Temple playing for Latics,
it was brilliant that a player of his calibre was playing for us,
He scored the late winner in Everton's 3–2 defeat
of Sheffield Wednesday in the 1966 FA Cup Final.
Their fans were like animals, throwing stuff at their own goalie as he was warming up and having to be chased off the pitch by the police, after the match they were buggering about trying to let the coach tyres down or nick the wheel trims and had to be chased off.
Derek played that day and I was stood behind the pitch fence along with a few other Latics fans, one of our gobby fans was giving Derek a load of abuse when he came over to the touchline to take a throw in, Derek picked the ball up and edged to the fence where Mr gobby was stood and gave him an elbow as he was taking the throw in, accidentally of course.
A bit of a Cantona moment.
Talking of abuse I'm surprised non of the opposition players didn't react when they were coming down the tunnel, they used to get loads of stick in the sixties.