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Just finished reading it and thoroughly enjoyed every page.

The John Toshack chapter opened some old wounds because I'd been nagging my parents to be able to go and watch City play for years. I was only 9 at the time and my mother was against it. Toshack was a player I only read and heard about and never saw play until 1979 for Wales.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my first match was Real Madrid. I got my uncle to take me and the rest, as they say, is history.

You mention an account in the Sunday New Of The World running a piece about the Toshack sale before the Monday papers covered it in full. Do you happen to know who the writer was? The main football journalist at the time was likely to have been Frank Butler but as it was a Cardiff City story it could have been my other uncle Lloyd Lewis who used to cover City in the late 1950's and early 1960's for the NOTW. Just thought I'd ask.

I will leave a review on Amazon this week and am looking forward to your next book!
Thanks very much and all reviews (good or bad) are appreciated.

I was around seven and a half when my father took me to my first match, but within a further eighteen months or so, my parents were prepared to let my go to games with my schoolmates who were all around the same age as me - I did know a few from school though who weren't allowed to go to games for a good few years after I started.

I may be wrong about the News of the World regarding the Toshack transfer. I can definitely remember that the story broke on the Sunday and that no one in our house knew about it until the following day - we had the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express delivered when I was a kid, so it didn't appear in either of them.

I said the News of the World because I thought it was probably the most likely of the papers around then to have the story, but there were others like the People, the Mail etc. which could have been the ones to break it.

The last third or so of the book was written while we were in lockdown and it was a great way to pass the time, so, if it works out that we do have to stay in for sustained periods again, I may think about doing something else - God knows what it would be about mind!

I had thought about doing something similar to mark the fiftieth anniversary of our 75/76 promotion season, but that would, obviously, be a few years down the line.