A day I'll never forget Silent!
My dad died suddenly that day.
As usual, I got up to do my morning paper round ( I was 15 years old), my dad, always an early riser, asked me what I wanted for breakfast when I got back. Last words I heard him speak.
When I got back (20 mins later), he was breathing his last as my frantic mum was summoning the just arriving district nurse who gave him a daily injection to combat tuberculosis he'd had for a few years.
The rest of the day was a blur and as I sat staring into space later on my mum pressed a couple of bob in my hand and told me to go to the Lane as there was nothing I could do just sitting there..
I really didn't want to go but she insisted I went so I walked down there in a daze.
First person I saw in the ground was a schoolmate who said 'where the fuck were you this morning ' (I should have been playing football for the school, obviously didn't turn up, no phone at home, couldn't inform anyone).
I just said my dad had died earlier that day and he literally shrank away from me horrified, I felt sorry for him ..
I remember nothing about the match, I was just staring at nothingness....
Walked home in a daze ...
Sad sad day....
