johnny crossan wrote:Denis Law straddled an excremental peak in 1960
I went to that game JC. I was only a kid and I went with a friend of mine who was a Leeds fan.
Denis Law had just been signed from Huddersfield for the mighty sum of £60,000 and all the Leeds old timers standing around us kept pontificating, throughout the game, that he was a complete waste of money (even in those days Leeds' fans knew nothing about football).
We had to leave the game ten minutes early to catch our train home, with City leading 3-2. As we were climbing over the slag heaps to get to Beeston Station, we heard two almighty roars which reflected the fact that Leeds had scored two very late goals to win the game 4-3.
I went home with my heart in my boots, only tempered by the fact that Bert Trautmann, my boyhood hero, had played really well for City and made a load of fine saves, so perhaps it was a fair result overall.
Leeds were playing in their blue and yellow strip as it was before the time that Don Revie became manager and changed it to make them look like Real Madrid.