RIP Billy.
As a few have commented on this thread, not a vintage period for United on the pitch, but same for me, late teenager at the time and went to all games home and away.
Remember that Bradford game at Odsal, went on the football special (train) and remember Budgie dishing the drinks out before the match. The reason he was doing that? No refreshment kiosks, they'd been burnt down two weeks before by Leeds fans, this a year after the Bradford City fire disaster!
Also, remember that Millwall 1-0 defeat, thanks for putting that memory back in my head, Bearlie, I can recall it now being an abysmal performance, one long range shot all game! I seem to recall the buses getting bricked on the way back at London Bridge by West Ham. Remember it there the season after, I think we played Palace and Millwall in December and I'm sure both had daft kick off times, something like 11am or noon, went to both and we lost them both, the latter we got hammered 3-0ish.
Going back to Billy McEwan, I think he was the Youth coach prior to being manager, and did well in that position. If they didn't win the Northern Intermediate league they came close, with players such as Clive Mendonca, Chris Marsden, Paul Heald and maybe Brian Smith. I reckon at one point with the first team he came close to putting a good team together, he'd agreed a £60k with Swansea for Dean Saunders, due to sign on the Wednesday (the day not the abomination of a football club), they had a striker crisis the night before put Saunders in, he scored 2 and they then decided to keep him. I believe he also came close to signing Mark Bright around the same time for a similar fee but it didn't happen. I always felt a forward line of those two with Beagrie and Morris on the wings would have been excellent.
Not great football wise but some cracking memories from that era.
