On this day 1972, Leeds won the centenary cup final on my dad's 50th birthday. So for that day he was half as old as the FA Cup 
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What team did you support?
Man City - there was an Esso promotion for the 1970 word cup. Football pennies. The first I got was Francis Lee, so decided to support City.
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I remember those. You could have had Colin Bell for City as well. I supported Leeds because Johnny Giles was Irish and with Leeds.
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That early 70s Leeds side was very, very good. I remember watching them torment some side by just passing endlessly.
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Southampton 7-0. Don Revie was friends with Southampton's manager, and told Leeds to stop scoring after 7 - hence the endless passing
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- Don Revie was an interesting character. Not sure everything was always entirely above board back then! -
He was a fascinating study in psychology - perfectionist, superstitious, remembered players wives birthdays, ruthless, greedy, maybe dodgy
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